Robert Morrison has taught nineteenth-century British literature and culture at Acadia University, Queenâs University, and Bath Spa University.
British Romanticism, the Regency, the periodical press, the literature of addiction, scholarly editing, crime and gothic fiction, Jane Austen, Thomas De Quincey, the Blackwoodâs Magazine circle
21st-Century Oxford Authors: Thomas De Quincey
Works in progress
- The Letters of Thomas De Quincey, 2 vols (Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming)
- The Oxford Handbook of British Romantic Prose (Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming)
Thomas De Quincey, Jane Austen, Algernon Swinburne.
British Academy Global Professor and Queenâs National Scholar
Morrisonâs book The Regency Years: During which Jane Austen Writes, Napoleon Fights, Byron Makes Love and Britain Becomes Modern was reviewed in the following publications: Rolling Stone, The Economist, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and The Sunday Times.
Morrison has written several blogs that have been picked up in newspapers and magazines in Canada, France, England, India, the United States, Australia, and elsewhere:
- âNetflixâs Bridgerton: A Romanticized Portrayal of Britain at the Dawn of Modernityâ in The Conversation, January 2021:
- âRoyal Baby! (Why is America So Obsessed with the British Monarchy?)â in The Literary Hub, May 2019:
- âSex and Sexability: On Writing Desire in the Regency Yearsâ in The Literary Hub, April 2019:
- âPerverse passions that will not die: The modern vampire first walked among us two centuries agoâ in The Conversation, March 2019:
- âGet Back: The Beatles Rocked the Rooftop 50 Years Agoâ in The Conversation, January 2019:
- âIn Jane Austen, Fairy Tales Meet Biting Feminist Critiquesâ in The Conversation, October 2018:
- âThe 19th-Century Book That Spawned the Opioid Crisisâ in The Conversation, May 2018:
- âIf I Can Dream: The Elvis Tribute to Martin Luther King, Jrâ in The Conversation, March 2018:
- âRemembering Gord Downie Through his Lyricsâ in The Conversation, October 2017:
- âWhy Rod Stewartâs Gay Ballad âGeorgieâ was Ahead of its Timeâ in The Conversation, September 2017:
- âLord Byronâs Passionâ on Oxford University Press Blog, June 2016:
- âGimme Shelter: De Quincey on Drugsâ in Oxford University Press Blog, April 2013: .
- âAnnotating Austenâ in Harvard University Press Blog, October 2011: .
