Alastair Morrison

Alastair Morrison is a medical student at McMaster University. He holds a Ph.D in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University, and before entering medicine he was Assistant Professor of literature at the University of Southern Denmark. His research, in journals including Criticism, Orbis Litterarum, Age Culture Humanities, and Nordic Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, has dealt with questions of instrumentality in literary education, surrogate decision-making, and relationships between poetry and aging.