British writer and academic (born 1981)
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]
Harris was born in Sussex, England, and has written the books 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]
The Rising Down: Lives in a Sussex Landscape was published by Faber in 2024.
Harris was appointed a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2014.[11]
References
- ^ "Q&A with author: Alexandra Harris". Financial Times. 8 July 2016. Retrieved 27 August 2017.
- ^ "Professor Alexandra Harris". University of Liverpool. Retrieved 27 August 2017.
- ^ Professor Alexandra Harris, University of Birmingham staff page.
- ^ Byatt, A. S. (30 September 2015). "Weatherland by Alexandra Harris review – are seasons and colours the same for all readers?". The Guardian. Retrieved 27 August 2017.
- ^ Niven, Alex; Steven Ross (31 January 2011). "Newly Elastic Approaches to Modernism". Oxonian Review (15.2). Archived from the original on 3 February 2011. Retrieved 27 August 2017.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ Wulf, Andre (26 February 2016). "'Weatherland,' by Alexandra Harris". The New York Times. Retrieved 27 August 2017.
- ^ Sooke, Alastair (9 September 2015). "Are the British really obsessed with the weather?". BBC. Retrieved 27 August 2017.
- ^ Kelly, Hillary (30 November 2011). "The Voyage In". The New Republic. Retrieved 27 August 2017.
- ^ Hadley, Tessa (21 October 2011). "Virginia Woolf by Alexandra Harris – review". The Guardian. Retrieved 27 August 2017.
- ^ Kennedy, Joe (27 February 2012). "The Territory of Modernism". Oxonian Review (18.4). Archived from the original on 7 March 2012. Retrieved 27 August 2017.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ "Current Fellowship". Royal Society of Literature. Archived from the original on 6 February 2019. Retrieved 27 August 2017.
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