Alexandra Harris Forward Prizes for Poetry 2020

Alexandra Harris (born 1981) is a British writer and academic. From 2007 to 2017, Harris was a professor in English at the

University of Liverpool , mottoeng = These days of peace foster learning , established = 1881 – University College Liverpool1884 – affiliated to the federal Victoria Universityhttp://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukla/2004/4 University of Manchester Act 200 ...

. In autumn 2017 Harris took up the post of Professorial Fellow at the

University of Birmingham The University of Birmingham (informally Birmingham University) is a Public university, public research university located in Edgbaston, Birmingham, United Kingdom. It received its royal charter in 1900 as a successor to Queen's College, Birmingha ...

.University of Birmingham staff page''
/ref> Harris was born in Sussex and has written the books ''Romantic Moderns'', on

modernism Modernism is both a philosophical and arts movement that arose from broad transformations in Western society during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The movement reflected a desire for the creation of new forms of art, philosophy, ...

in inter-war Britain, and ''Weatherland'' on weather in English art and literature. She has also written a short biography of

Virginia Woolf Adeline Virginia Woolf (; ; 25 January 1882 28 March 1941) was an English writer, considered one of the most important modernist 20th-century authors and a pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device. Woolf was born ...

. She was appointed a

Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature The Royal Society of Literature (RSL) is a learned society founded in 1820, by George IV of the United Kingdom, King George IV, to "reward literary merit and excite literary talent". A charity that represents the voice of literature in the UK, th ...

in 2014.

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* Living people Academics of the University of Liverpool Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature 1981 births {{UK-academic-bio-stub