Background
Alan Ivan Morris was born on November 7, 1955 in Leicester, England. He is the son of Ivan James and Jean Morris.
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Alan Ivan Morris was born on November 7, 1955 in Leicester, England. He is the son of Ivan James and Jean Morris.
Morris received Master of Arts degree with honors from University of St. Andrews in Scotland in 1978. In 1985 he earned his doctorate there.
Morris started his career as a lecturer in English at the University of Paris in 1982. In 1983, he returned to Scotland, where he held the same position at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. Four years later he went to Huddersfield Polytechnic University at Huddersfield, England, working there as a lecturer in French till 1988.
In 1989, he returned to University of Strathclyde, and since then he works there as a lecturer in French.
Morris is known as an author, who has published widely on the Occupation and its legacy, the œuvre of Patrick Modiano and, more recently, the French polar. He is the author of Collaboration and Resistance Reviewed: Writers and the Mode Rétro in Post-Gaullist France (Berg, 1992) and two separate monographs on the work of Patrick Modiano (Berg, 1996 and Rodopi, 2000). He is also the co-editor of Words & Things: Essays in Memory of Keith Foley (University of Glasgow French and German Publications, 2009).
Morris is a member of Association Study Modern and Contemporary France, Society French Studies.
Morris is married to Alexandra (Sandra) Mary Abercrombie. They have one child, Amanda.
