Robert Morrison

Personal statement

Robert Morrison received his BA from the University of Lethbridge, his MPhil from Oxford, and his PhD from Edinburgh. He did his postdoctoral work at the University of Manchester.

He taught at Acadia University in Nova Scotia and Queen's University in Ontario before being appointed British Academy Global Professor at Bath Spa.

Current research includes editorship of The Oxford Handbook of Romantic Prose and The Letters of Thomas De Quincey, both to be published by Oxford University Press. Professor Morrison guest edited a Special Issue of the journal Romanticism to commemorate the bicentenary of De Quincey’s most famous work, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, first published in 1821.

Academic qualifications

• PhD, University of Edinburgh
• MPhil, University of Oxford
• BA, University of Lethbridge

Professional memberships

• Byron Society
• Jane Austen Society of North America
• Wordsworth Trust

Other external roles

• Advisory Board, Romanticism
• Advisory Board, European Romantic Review
• Advisory Board, The Edinburgh Edition of the Works of John Gibson Lockhart

Teaching specialism and research supervision

• Nineteenth-century British literature and culture