Robert Morrison is currently \;British Academy Global Professor at Bath Spa University and Queen&rsquo\;s Nation al Scholar at Queen&rsquo\;s University in Kingston\, Ontario. He speciali zes in nineteenth-century British literature and culture. In 2017\, he was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. \;
\nHis most re cent book is \;The Regency Years\, During Which Jane Austen Writes \, Napoleon Fights\, Byron Makes Love\, and Britain Becomes Modern \;< /em>(2019)\, which was named by \;The Economist \;as one of its 2019 Books of the Year and \;short-listed for the Historical Wr iters&rsquo\; Association Crown Award for the best in non-fiction historic al writing. He is also the author of \;The English Opium-Eater: A Biography of Thomas De Quincey \;(2009)\, which was short-listed for the James Tait Black Prize (2010). His annotated edition of Jane Auste n&rsquo\;s \;Persuasion \;was published by the Belknap Pr ess of Harvard University Press (2011). \;He has won the Queen&rsquo\; s University Frank Knox Award for Excellence in Teaching on three occasion s (2014\, 2008\, and 2006). He has won the Queen&rsquo\;s University W. J. Barnes Award for Excellence in Teaching on two occasions (2018 and 2006). \;
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