Ashleigh Harris

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

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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

Biographical information

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.

Publications

Recent publications

All publications

Articles in journal

Books

Afropolitanism and the Novel: De-realizing Africa

Harris, Ashleigh

Routledge, 2019

Chapters in book

Early Sesotho, isiXhosa and isiZulu Novels as World Literature

Harris, Ashleigh

Part of African Literatures as World Literature, p. 115-138, Bloomsbury Academic, 2022
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The locations and orientations of South African literature: From Sol Plaatje to Peter Abrahams

Harris, Ashleigh

Part of Claiming Space, p. 59-84, Bloomsbury Academic, 2022
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Locating Chronic Violence: Billy Kahora’s “How to Eat a Forest”

Harris, Ashleigh

Part of World Literatures, p. 107-118, Stockholm University Press, 2018
Introduction

Harris, Ashleigh; Bystrom, Kerry; Webber, Andrew J

Part of South and North, p. 1-22, Routledge, 2018
Afropolitanism and Unusable Global Space

Harris, Ashleigh

Part of Cosmopolitanisms, p. 240-253, New York University Press, 2017
Afropolitan style and unusable global spaces

Harris, Ashleigh

Part of Cosmopolitanisms, p. 303-321, New York University Press, 2016
Facing/Defacing Robert Mugabe: land reclamation, race and the end of colonial accountability

Harris, Ashleigh

Part of What Postcolonial Theory Doesn’t Say, p. 105-120, Routledge, 2015
What revolt in the postcolony today?

Harris, Ashleigh

Part of Traversing transnationalism, p. 227-250, Rodopi, 2011
Discourses of Dirt and Disease in Operation Murambatsvina

Harris, Ashleigh

Part of The Hidden Dimensions of Operation Murambatsvina in Zimbabwe, p. 40-50, Weaver Press, 2008
"The home I never knew I had": Inscriptions of Whiteness/Descriptions of Ownership in White Zimbabwean Autobiography

Harris, Ashleigh

Part of Versions of Zimbabwe, p. 103-118, Weaver Press, 2005

Collections (editor)

African Street Literature: English Studies in Africa Volume 61, 2018 - Issue 2

Harris, Ashleigh; Hållén, Nicklas

Taylor & Francis Group, 2018
South and North: Contemporary Urban Orientations

Harris, Ashleigh; Bystrom, Kerry; Webber, Andrew J

Routledge, 2018
Unruly Pedagogies; Migratory Interventions: Unsettling Cultural Studies

Harris, Ashleigh; Bethlehem, Louise

Taylor & Francis Group, 2012
Beyond Nationalism: New Perspectives on Zimbabwean and Rhodesian Writing, 1890-2007

Donovan, Stephen; Harris, Ashleigh

Routledge, 2007
New Perspectives on Zimbabwean and Rhodesian Writing, 1890-2007: Special Double-Issue of English Studies in Africa (Autumn, Winter 2007)

Donovan, Stephen; Harris, Ashleigh

University of the Witwatersrand Press, 2007

Conference papers

Reports

AI and African Literary Studies

Harris, Ashleigh

2025
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The Literary Metadata of African Little and Popular Magazines

Harris, Ashleigh

2024
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Other

The Spectral Atlantic: Embodiment and Haunting in Hershini Bhana Young's Haunting, Text and the Black Diasporic Body

Harris, Ashleigh

Part of South African Historical Journal, p. 219-227, 2006