Alexandra Harris
Alexandra Harris | |
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 Harris in 2020 | |
| Born | 1981 (age 42–43) Sussex, England |
| Alma mater | Christ Church, Oxford; Courtauld Institute |
| Occupation(s) | Writer and academic |
| Employer | University of Birmingham |
| Website | www |
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
[edit]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
[edit]- ^ "Q&A with author: Alexandra Harris". Financial Times. 8 July 2016. Retrieved 27 August 2017.
- ^ "Professor Alexandra Harris". University of Liverpool. Retrieved 27 August 2017.
- ^ Professor Alexandra Harris, University of Birmingham staff page.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ Wulf, Andre (26 February 2016). "'Weatherland,' by Alexandra Harris". The New York Times. Retrieved 27 August 2017.
- ^ Sooke, Alastair (9 September 2015). "Are the British really obsessed with the weather?". BBC. Retrieved 27 August 2017.
- ^ Kelly, Hillary (30 November 2011). "The Voyage In". The New Republic. Retrieved 27 August 2017.
- ^ Hadley, Tessa (21 October 2011). "Virginia Woolf by Alexandra Harris – review". The Guardian. Retrieved 27 August 2017.
- ^ 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.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ "About". alexandraharris.co.uk. Retrieved 16 October 2024.
- ^ "Current Fellowship". Royal Society of Literature. Archived from the original on 6 February 2019. Retrieved 27 August 2017.
- ^ "Alexandra Harris | Literary critic, cultural historian, lover of buildings, landscapes, seasons, stories". alexandraharris.co.uk.
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