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Alexandra Harris

Alexandra Harris

British writer and academic (born 1981)

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. [1]
    "Q&A with author: Alexandra Harris". Financial Times. Retrieved 27 August 2017.
  2. [2]
    "Professor Alexandra Harris". University of Liverpool. Retrieved 27 August 2017.
  3. [3]
    University of Birmingham staff page
  4. [4]
    Byatt, AS. "Weatherland by Alexandra Harris review – are seasons and colours the same for all readers?". The Guardian. Retrieved 27 August 2017.
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    Niven, Alex; Ross, Steven. "Newly Elastic Approaches to Modernism". Oxonian Review. Archived from the original on 3 February 2011. Retrieved 27 August 2017.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
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    Wulf, Andre. "'Weatherland,' by Alexandra Harris". The New York Times. Retrieved 27 August 2017.
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    Sooke, Alastair. "Are the British really obsessed with the weather?". BBC. Retrieved 27 August 2017.
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    Kelly, Hillary. "The Voyage In". The New Republic. Retrieved 27 August 2017.
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    Hadley, Tessa. "Virginia Woolf by Alexandra Harris – review". The Guardian. Retrieved 27 August 2017.
  10. [10]
    Kennedy, Joe. "The Territory of Modernism". Oxonian Review. Archived from the original on 7 March 2012. Retrieved 27 August 2017.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  11. [11]
    "Current Fellowship". Royal Society of Literature. Archived from the original on 6 February 2019. Retrieved 27 August 2017.


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