Background
Morrison was born and raised in Lethbridge, Alberta.
Morrison was born and raised in Lethbridge, Alberta.
He was educated at the University of Lethbridge, where he gained a Bachelor of Arts in English in 1983. He later pursued a Master of Philosophy at the University of Oxford, which he completed in 1987. In 1991, Morrison earned his Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh.
Early Academic Morrison is currently a full professor of English and Queen"s National Scholar at Queen"s University in Kingston, Ontario. Morrison maintains the Thomas De Quincey Homepage, a site devoted to the study of the life and writings of its namesake. He is the co-general editor of The Selected Works of Leigh Hunt, and editor of Hunt’s essays, 1822-1838 (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, 2000-2003).
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 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 a scholar of late eighteenthand nineteenth-century literature and culture, particularly of Romanticism and the works of Thomas De Quincey.