Alexandra Harris
British writer and academic (born 1981)
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Alexandra Harris FRSL (born 1981) is a British writer and academic.[1] From 2007 to 2017, Harris was a professor in English at the University of Liverpool.[2] In autumn 2017, Harris took up the post of Professorial Fellow at the University of Birmingham.[3] She is the author of books including Romantic Moderns, on modernism in inter-war Britain, and Weatherland on weather in English art and literature. [4][5][6][7] She has also written a short biography of Virginia Woolf published by Thames and Hudson in 2011.[8][9][10]
Alexandra Harris | |
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Harris in 2020 | |
| Born | 1981 (age 44–45) Sussex, England |
| Alma mater | Christ Church, Oxford; Courtauld Institute |
| Occupations | Writer and academic |
| Employer | University of Birmingham |
| Website | www |
The Rising Down: Lives in a Sussex Landscape was published by Faber in 2024.[11]
Biography
Harris was born in Sussex, England, and read English at Christ Church, Oxford, going on to do an MA at the Courtauld Institute, specialising in modern European Art.[12]
Harris was appointed a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2014.[13] She was Chair of the judges for the 2020 Forward Prizes for Poetry and has also been a judge for the RSL Ondaatje Prize, the Royal Academy of Arts Wollaston Award, the Authors' Foundation Awards, and the Observer/Anthony Burgess Prize for Arts Journalism.[14]
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