Ashleigh Harris

Professor at Department of English

Telephone:
+46 18 471 12 52
E-mail:
ashleigh.harris@engelska.uu.se
Visiting address:
Engelska parken, Thunbergsvägen 3 L
Postal address:
Box 527
751 20 Uppsala
Available:
Torsdagar 13-14
ORCID:
0000-0002-6207-3067

Short presentation

Ashleigh Harris is Professor of English Literature. Her research interests are African literature, book and print history, literary ephemera and metadata. She is currently the primary investigator of the research project 'African Literary Metadata (ALMEDA)', which has received Advanced Grant funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme. Grant agreement No: 101097763. See almedaresearch.org for more information.

Biography

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Academic qualifications

BA Witwatersrand (1996); BA (Hons) Witwatersrand (1997); PhD Witwatersrand (2002)

Current and upcoming academic appointments

March 2021 – Present: Full Professor, Department of English, Uppsala University.

June 2019 – 31 May 2022: Research Associate, School of Literature, Languages and Media, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.

January 2022 – July 2022: Research Fellow, Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Studies, South Africa.

November 2022 – present: Honorary Professor, Rhodes University, South Africa.

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Ashleigh Harris

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