Alexandra Harris
British writer and literary historian; author of Romantic Moderns and Weatherland.
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- Alexandra Harris is a British writer and academic.
- She was a professor of English at the University of Liverpool from 2007 to 2017, and in autumn 2017 became a Professorial Fellow at the University of Birmingham.
- Her books include Romantic Moderns, on modernism in inter-war Britain, and Weatherland, on weather in English art and literature.
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- Born
- 1981, Sussex, England1
- Education
- English, Christ Church, Oxford; MA, Courtauld Institute of Art1
- Books
- Romantic Moderns; Virginia Woolf (2011); Weatherland; The Rising Down: Lives in a Sussex Landscape (2024)1
- Honours
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (2014); chair of the judges, Forward Prizes for Poetry (2020)1
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