Robert J. H. Morrison

Robert J. H. Morrison (born 1961) is a Canadian academic and Professor of English at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario. He is a scholar of late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature, particularly of Romanticism and the works of Thomas De Quincey. His 2009 biography of Thomas De Quincey was shortlisted for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in Biography.^[1] He also maintains the Thomas De Quincey Homepage.^[2] He is the recipient of a number of teaching awards, including the Ontario Undergraduate Student Alliance Teaching Award, the Frank Knox Award for Excellence in Teaching, and the W. J. Barnes Award for Excellence in Teaching.^[3]

Morrison was educated at the universities of Lethbridge, Oxford and Edinburgh. He is the co-general editor of The Selected Works of Leigh Hunt, and editor of Hunt’s essays, 1822–38 (Pickering and Chatto, 2003). He is the editor of three volumes of the Works of Thomas De Quincey, and co-editor of a fourth (Pickering and Chatto, 2000–03). He is also the editor of Thomas De Quincey's On Murder (Oxford, 2006), Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice: A Sourcebook (Routledge, 2005), Richard Woodhouse’s Cause Book: The Opium-Eater, the Magazine Wars, and the London Literary Scene in 1821^[4] Harvard Library Bulletin (1998), and Thomas De Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium Eater (Oxford, 2013), as well as co-editor, with Chris Baldick, of The Vampyre and Other Tales of the Macabre (Oxford, 1997), and Tales of Terror from Blackwood's Magazine (Oxford, 1995). He is the author of a biography about De Quincey, published as The English Opium Eater (2009).

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