Alexandra Harris Explained

Honorific Suffix:FRSL
Birth Place:Sussex, England
Occupation:Writer and academic
Employer:University of Birmingham

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]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Q&A with author: Alexandra Harris. Financial Times. 8 July 2016. 27 August 2017.
  2. Web site: Professor Alexandra Harris. University of Liverpool. 27 August 2017.
  3. https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/english/harris-alexandra.aspx Professor Alexandra Harris
  4. News: Byatt. A. S.. A. S. Byatt. Weatherland by Alexandra Harris review – are seasons and colours the same for all readers?. The Guardian. 30 September 2015. 27 August 2017.
  5. Niven. Alex. Alex Niven. Steven Ross. Newly Elastic Approaches to Modernism. https://web.archive.org/web/20110203024605/http://www.oxonianreview.org/wp/newly-elastic-approaches-to-modernism/. usurped. 3 February 2011. Oxonian Review. 15.2. 31 January 2011. 27 August 2017.
  6. Web site: Wulf. Andre. 'Weatherland,' by Alexandra Harris. The New York Times. 26 February 2016. 27 August 2017.
  7. Web site: Sooke. Alastair. Are the British really obsessed with the weather?. BBC. 9 September 2015. 27 August 2017.
  8. Kelly. Hillary. The Voyage In. The New Republic. 30 November 2011. 27 August 2017.
  9. Web site: Hadley. Tessa. Tessa Hadley. Virginia Woolf by Alexandra Harris – review. The Guardian. 21 October 2011. 27 August 2017.
  10. Kennedy. Joe. The Territory of Modernism. https://web.archive.org/web/20120307040016/http://www.oxonianreview.org/wp/the-territory-of-modernism/. usurped. 7 March 2012. Oxonian Review. 27 February 2012. 18.4 . 27 August 2017.
  11. Web site: Current Fellowship. Royal Society of Literature. 27 August 2017. 6 February 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190206015823/https://rsliterature.org/fellows/current-fellows/. dead.

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