Oliver Harris (academic)
Oliver C. G. Harris is a British academic and Emeritus Professor of American Literature at Keele University. He is the author and editor of eighteen books, including a dozen editions of works by William S. Burroughs: Letters, 1945–1959, Junky: the definitive text of Junk, The Yage Letters Redux, Queer, The Cut-Up Trilogy, The Soft Machine, Nova Express, and The Ticket That Exploded, Blade Runner: A Movie, Minutes to Go Redux, The Exterminator Redux, BATTLE INSTRUCTIONS and Dead Fingers Talk. In 2022, he published two short books of essays, A Burroughs Triptych and Making Naked Lunch and in 2023 a collaborative hybrid of criticism and memoir, Two Assassins: William Burroughs/Hassan Sabbah. He is President of the European Beat Studies Network. He served as a consultant to Luca Guadagnino for his 2024 film Queer, based on the Burroughs novel. In 2024, he published a second hybrid of memoir, scholarship, and detective fiction, ''One Shot: A Beat Generation Mystery.''