Alexandra Harris

Alexandra Harris
FRSL
Harris in 2020
Born1981 (age 43–44)
Sussex, England
Alma materChrist Church, Oxford; Courtauld Institute
Occupation(s)Writer and academic
EmployerUniversity of Birmingham
Websitewww.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]

The Rising Down: Lives in a Sussex Landscape was published by Faber in 2024.

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.[11]

Harris was appointed a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2014.[12] 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.[13]

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. ^ "About". alexandraharris.co.uk. Retrieved 16 October 2024.
  12. ^ "Current Fellowship". Royal Society of Literature. Archived from the original on 6 February 2019. Retrieved 27 August 2017.
  13. ^ "Alexandra Harris | Literary critic, cultural historian, lover of buildings, landscapes, seasons, stories". alexandraharris.co.uk.


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