Alexandra Harris

{{Short description|British writer and academic (born 1981)}}

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| alma_mater = Christ Church, Oxford; Courtauld Institute

| occupation = Writer and academic

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Alexandra Harris FRSL (born 1981) is a British writer and academic.{{cite web|title=Q&A with author: Alexandra Harris|url=https://www.ft.com/content/85934614-41ea-11e6-b22f-79eb4891c97d|website=Financial Times|date=8 July 2016|access-date=27 August 2017}} From 2007 to 2017, Harris was a professor in English at the University of Liverpool.{{cite web|title=Professor Alexandra Harris|url=https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/english/staff/alexandra-harris/|publisher=University of Liverpool|access-date=27 August 2017}}

In autumn 2017, Harris took up the post of Professorial Fellow at the University of Birmingham.[https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/english/harris-alexandra.aspx Professor Alexandra Harris], University of Birmingham staff page.

She is the author of books including Romantic Moderns, on modernism in inter-war Britain, and Weatherland on weather in English art and literature.

{{cite news|last1=Byatt|first1=A. S.|authorlink1=A. S. Byatt|title=Weatherland by Alexandra Harris review – are seasons and colours the same for all readers?|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/sep/30/weatherland-review-writers-and-artists-under-english-skies-alexandra-harris|newspaper=The Guardian|date=30 September 2015|access-date=27 August 2017}}{{cite journal|last1=Niven|first1=Alex|author-link=Alex Niven|author2=Steven Ross|title=Newly Elastic Approaches to Modernism|url=http://www.oxonianreview.org/wp/newly-elastic-approaches-to-modernism/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110203024605/http://www.oxonianreview.org/wp/newly-elastic-approaches-to-modernism/|url-status=usurped|archive-date=3 February 2011|website=Oxonian Review|issue=2|date=31 January 2011|volume=15 |access-date=27 August 2017}}{{cite web|last1=Wulf|first1=Andre|title='Weatherland,' by Alexandra Harris|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/28/books/review/weatherland-by-alexandra-harris.html|newspaper=The New York Times|date=26 February 2016|access-date=27 August 2017}}{{cite web|last1=Sooke|first1=Alastair|title=Are the British really obsessed with the weather?|url=http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20150909-are-the-british-really-obsessed-with-the-weather|website=BBC|date=9 September 2015|access-date=27 August 2017}} She has also written a short biography of Virginia Woolf published by Thames and Hudson in 2011.{{cite magazine|last1=Kelly|first1=Hillary|title=The Voyage In|url=https://newrepublic.com/article/97910/virginia-woolf-alexandra-harris|magazine=The New Republic|date=30 November 2011|access-date=27 August 2017}}{{cite web|last1=Hadley|first1=Tessa|author-link1=Tessa Hadley|title=Virginia Woolf by Alexandra Harris – review|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/oct/21/virginia-woolf-alexandra-harris-review|newspaper=The Guardian|date=21 October 2011|access-date=27 August 2017}}{{cite journal|last1=Kennedy|first1=Joe|title=The Territory of Modernism|url=http://www.oxonianreview.org/wp/the-territory-of-modernism/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120307040016/http://www.oxonianreview.org/wp/the-territory-of-modernism/|url-status=usurped|archive-date=7 March 2012|journal=Oxonian Review|date=27 February 2012|volume=18 |issue=4 |access-date=27 August 2017}}

The Rising Down: Lives in a Sussex Landscape was published by Faber in 2024.