University of Wales Trinity Saint David

Former Faculty & Writer in Residence, English

Thesis Title: The Bendithion Chronicles

About

Dr. Harrison Solow is an author, university lecturer, creative and strategic writer/consultant to a wide variety of institutions. She has to date written/edited/executed over 500 publications and projects.

Harrison has been honoured with a number of awards for literary fiction, nonfiction, cross-genre writing, poetry and professional writing, including a Pushcart Prize for Literature for her nonfiction work, Bendithion.

Her most recent award is First Prize, Short Fiction in the Carpe Articulum Literary Review International Competition for 2010, and her most recent distinction is the acceptance of her PhD Dissertation, The Bendithion Chronicles, "As Written: No Changes" in 2011.

Her latest book, Felicity & Barbara Pym (about literature, reading, literary criticism, education and incidentally, Barbara Pym), hailed as "the treasures of a cultured mind" and "a work of art about art" was launched in London in September, 2010 and has enjoyed considerable success in both the UK and North America.

Harrison has lectured at several universities and colleges in the United States, Canada and Great Britain. A former faculty member at UC Berkeley, she accepted a lectureship in the English Department of the University of Wales in 2004 at the associate professor level (in US terms): undergraduate teaching and advising, graduate teaching and advising, thesis supervision, committee membership, guest lecturing in other departments,  preparation and execution of internal and external colloquia, seminars, conferences and workshops for students and peers, giving papers at conferences at other universities, research and publication. 

She was appointed Writer in Residence in 2008. During her tenure at the university, she was also the Director of The St. David's Institute, an international inter-cultural academic institute. Harrison returned to the United States in order to write her fourth and fifth books.

Harrison's research interests include philosophical and pedagogical literary fiction and nonfiction, cross genre works and liminality, the critical focus of her PhD dissertation. In addition to her own creative and critical work, she continues to write for the professions, the arts and academia.

She has a BA Hons from  Saint Mary's University in Canada, an MFA from Mills College in America and a PhD from Trinity Saint David in the UK. In addition, she has earned the equivalent of several additional BA degrees in Theology, Fine Arts and Philosophy by virtue of her studies in various universities and Mount Alverno College, the convent college staffed by professors from universities in the Bay Area  (Berkeley, USF, Stanford, etc)  at which she studied when she was a Franciscan nun.

Harrison was invited to lecture at Harvard in 2008, at Cambridge University in 2009 (in honour of the 800th Anniversary of the university), at Oxford in 2010 and at the University of Vienna in 2012.

Dr. Harrison Solow is a member of Literature Wales (formerly known as Academi - the Literary Academy of Wales), The Association of Literary Scholars, Critics and Writers, The Intercollegiate Studies Institute, The National Association of Scholars,  The Women's Faculty Club of the University of California, Berkeley, The Association of Welsh Writers in English, The Claremont Institute, Association for Core Texts and Courses,  The Red Room, and The National Coalition of Independent Scholars, where she served on the Board in 2009 and 2010.

She speaks various varieties of English as well as intermediate Welsh and rusty French.

Harrison is married to Herbert F. Solow, the former head of MGM, Paramount and Desilu Studios in Hollywood.

She is represented by Russell Galen (Scovil, Galen, Ghosh) in New York, Riot Communications in London, Murray Weissman & Associates in Los Angeles, and several lawyers in America and Europe.

All professional requests should be made via Harrison Solow's business manager (see below).

Follow her on Twitter: @HarrisonSolow
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Testimonials from University of Wales English Department Faculty:

"a brilliantly effective teacher..."

"Harrison has been an inspirational presence in the English Department for both staff and students..."

"...she has actually helped change the departmental culture in the direction of a greater openness to precisely the kind of ideas that we currently need to consider in order to meet new challenges.."

"Harrison is a valued colleague, reliable, energetic, constructive, innovative and trusted - a judgment recently endorsed by senior representatives of English Studies from other British universities."

"Harrison created the most innovative course that the Department has ever offered..."

"...she is extremely successful with students at all levels and much loved in that capacity..."

Testimonials from Faculty at Other Universities:

"As a writer she has never yet submitted any writing that has not won a significant award: The Abroad International Award for short fiction (which  was highly praised by Margaret Drabble); The Faulkner Award for Fiction, The Cinnamon Press Award for Fiction, The Pushcart Prize for Non Fiction, The Leaf Books Award for Poetry.

"the most gifted teacher of writing and literature I have ever met..."

"Harrison's classes tower above the rest..."

“Her work is invariably original, challenging, and opens up untrodden paths in the approach to creativity both in herself and in others."

" Harrison is a huge asset to any institution lucky enough to have her on its team...."

Full (signed) testimonials and references available.  Over 100 student evaluations and testimonials available as well.

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