Alexandra Harris

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]

Alexandra Harris FRSL
Harris in 2020
Born	1981 (age 43–44) Sussex, England
Alma mater	Christ Church, Oxford; Courtauld Institute
Occupation(s)	Writer and academic
Employer	University of Birmingham
Website	www.alexandraharris.co.uk

The Rising Down: Lives in a Sussex Landscape was published by Faber in 2024.^[11]

Biography

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.^[12]

Harris was appointed a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2014.^[13] 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.^[14]