Alexandra Harris

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Alexandra Harris
FRSL
Alexandra Harris Forward Prizes for Poetry 2020.jpg
Harris in 2020
Born1981 (age 43–44)
Sussex, England
Alma mater Christ Church, Oxford; Courtauld Institute
Occupation(s)Writer and academic
Employer University of Birmingham
Website www.alexandraharris.co.uk

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]

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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]

References

  1. ↑ "Q&A with author: Alexandra Harris". Financial Times . 8 July 2016. Retrieved 27 August 2017.
  2. ↑ "Professor Alexandra Harris". University of Liverpool . Retrieved 27 August 2017.
  3. ↑ Professor Alexandra Harris, University of Birmingham staff page.
  4. ↑ 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.
  5. ↑ 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.
  6. ↑ Wulf, Andre (26 February 2016). "'Weatherland,' by Alexandra Harris". The New York Times . Retrieved 27 August 2017.
  7. ↑ Sooke, Alastair (9 September 2015). "Are the British really obsessed with the weather?". BBC. Retrieved 27 August 2017.
  8. ↑ Kelly, Hillary (30 November 2011). "The Voyage In". The New Republic . Retrieved 27 August 2017.
  9. ↑ Hadley, Tessa (21 October 2011). "Virginia Woolf by Alexandra Harris – review". The Guardian . Retrieved 27 August 2017.
  10. ↑ 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.
  11. ↑ Kathryn Hughes (22 March 2024), "The Rising Down by Alexandra Harris review – the joy of Sussex", The Guardian , retrieved 5 September 2025
  12. ↑ "About". alexandraharris.co.uk. Retrieved 16 October 2024.
  13. ↑ "Current Fellowship". Royal Society of Literature. Archived from the original on 6 February 2019. Retrieved 27 August 2017.
  14. ↑ "Alexandra Harris | Literary critic, cultural historian, lover of buildings, landscapes, seasons, stories". alexandraharris.co.uk.


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