Alexandra Harris

Alexandra Harris FRSL (born 1981) 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, England, 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 published by Thames and Hudson in 2011.

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

Harris was appointed a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2014.