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Alexandra Harris (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 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. [8] [9] [10] She was appointed a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2014. [11]

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  3. University of Birmingham staff page
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