Alexandra Harris

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]

Alexandra Harris in 2020

References
  1. "Q&A with author: Alexandra Harris". Financial Times. Retrieved 27 August 2017.
  2. "Professor Alexandra Harris". University of Liverpool. Retrieved 27 August 2017.
  3. University of Birmingham staff page
  4. Byatt, AS. "Weatherland by Alexandra Harris review – are seasons and colours the same for all readers?". The Guardian. Retrieved 27 August 2017.
  5. Niven, Alex; Ross, Steven. "Newly Elastic Approaches to Modernism". Oxonian Review. Retrieved 27 August 2017.
  6. Wulf, Andre. "'Weatherland,' by Alexandra Harris". The New York Times. Retrieved 27 August 2017.
  7. Sooke, Alastair. "Are the British really obsessed with the weather?". BBC. Retrieved 27 August 2017.
  8. Kelly, Hillary. "The Voyage In". The New Republic. Retrieved 27 August 2017.
  9. Hadley, Tessa. "Virginia Woolf by Alexandra Harris – review". The Guardian. Retrieved 27 August 2017.
  10. Kennedy, Joe. "The Territory of Modernism". Oxonian Review. Retrieved 27 August 2017.
  11. "Current Fellowship". Royal Society of Literature. Archived from the original on 6 February 2019. Retrieved 27 August 2017.


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