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Alexandra Harris

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Alexandra Harris is a British writer and academic. From 2007 to 2017, Harris was a professor in English at the University of Liverpool. In autumn 2017 Harris took up the post of Professorial Fellow at the University of Birmingham. 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. She has also written a short biography of Virginia Woolf. She was appointed a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2014.