Personal profile
Biography
I studied English at Oxford, European art at the Courtauld Institute, and then (after a very happy time in the drawings department at Christie’s) I wrote my doctoral thesis at Oxford on modernism and tradition in the 1930s and 40s. I began my academic career as a lecturer at the University of Liverpool in 2007 and was promoted to a personal chair in 2015. I came to Birmingham in 2017 to take up a Professorial Fellowship in English.
Research interests
Much of my research has been focussed on Modernism, especially the work of Virginia Woolf, but I have written about literature from the tenth century to the present and am always interested in forms of continuity and revision across time.
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The Rising Down: Lives in a Sussex Landscape
Harris, A., 21 Mar 2024, London: Faber & Faber. 416 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book
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The Light Watch
Harris, A., 3 Apr 2023, What Is It That Will Last? : Land and Tidal Art of Julie Brook. 1 ed. London: Lund Humphries, p. 37-46 10 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Easter Chalk
Harris, A., 10 Nov 2022, Sussex Landscape: Chalk, Wood and Water. 1 ed. Pallant House Gallery, p. 92-97 6 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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February
Harris, A., 2022, Next to Nature: A Lifetime in the English Countryside. Blythe, R. (ed.). 1 ed. London: John Murray, p. 47-48 2 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Foreword/postscript
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Life Begins: Art, War and Resurrection
Harris, A., 10 Oct 2022, Revisiting Modern British Art. Baring, J. (ed.). London: Lund Humphries, p. 25-34 9 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Projects
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Alexandra Harris - Phillip Leverhulme Prize
Harris, A. (Principal Investigator)
1/09/17 → 28/02/21
Project: Research
Activities
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HM Treasury (External organisation)
Harris, A. (Advisor)
2024 → …Activity: Membership › Membership of working group or committee
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The Strachey Trust (External organisation)
Harris, A. (Advisor)
2023 → …Activity: Membership › Membership of board
Prizes
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British Council International Literature Showcase - Featured Writer
Harris, A. (Recipient), 2017
Prize: National/international honour
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Member of the Royal Mint Advisory Committee on the Design of Coins, Medals and Seals
Harris, A. (Recipient), 2023
Prize: Appointment
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Royal Society of Literature Fellowship
Harris, A. (Recipient), 2014
Prize: Election to learned society