Alexandra Harris | |
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Born | 1981 (age 42–43) Sussex, England |
Occupation(s) | 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]