The renowned scholar and native Tuscaloosan Dr. Trudier Harris will serve as the facilitator for the Race and Displacement Symposium. This closing session will take place on Saturday, October 3rd at 10:30 am.
Dr. Trudier Harris was the J. Carlyle Sitterson Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has lectured and published widely in her specialty areas of African American literature and folklore. Dr. Harris has published articles and book reviews in such journals as Callaloo, Black American Literature Forum, Studies in American Fiction, and The Southern Humanities Review. Her authored books include From Mammies to Militants: Domestics in Black American Literature, Exorcising Blackness: Historical and Literary Lynching and Burning Rituals, Black Women in the Fiction of James Baldwin, Fiction and Folklore: The Novels of Toni Morrison, The Power of the Porch: The Storyteller's Craft in Zora Neale Hurston, Saints, Sinners, Saviors: Strong Black Women in African American Literature, and South of Tradition: Essays on African American Literature.
