{"id":1288,"date":"2017-08-10T11:36:42","date_gmt":"2017-08-10T18:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1288"},"modified":"2018-03-29T07:52:17","modified_gmt":"2018-03-29T14:52:17","slug":"harris-trudier-1948","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1288","title":{"rendered":"HARRIS, TRUDIER, 1948-"},"content":{"rendered":"

Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n

University professor. Born– February 27, 1948, Mantua. Parents– Terrell and Unareed (Burton) Harris. Education– Stillman College, A.B., 1969; Ohio State University, M.A., 1972, Ph.D., 1973. Taught English at College of William and Mary, 1973-1979; University of North Carolina, 1979-1993; Emory University, 1993-1996; University of North Carolina, 1996-2009; University of Alabama, 2010-present. Published many articles in professional journals and anthologies. Member, Modern Language Association of America, College Language Association, American Folklore Society, Langston Hughes Society, South Atlantic Modern Language Association, and Association of African and African American Folklorists. Received many awards for teaching and scholarship. Honorary doctorate, College of William and Mary, 2018; Received the Clarence E. Cason Award from the University of Alabama, 2018.\u00a0 SEC Faculty Achievement Award, 2018. 2018-19 National Humanities Fellow.<\/p>\n

Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Contemporary Authors online; University of Alabama English Department website<\/p>\n

Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n

Black Women in the Fiction of James Baldwin. Knoxville, Tenn.; University of Tennessee Press, 1985.<\/p>\n

Exorcising Blackness; Historical and Literary Lynching and Burning Rituals. Bloomington, Ind.; Indiana University Press, 1985.<\/p>\n

Fiction and Folklore; the Novels of Toni Morrison. Knoxville, Tenn.; University of Tennessee Press, 1991.<\/p>\n

From Mammies to Militants; Domestics in Black American Literature. Philadelphia; Temple University Press, 1982.<\/p>\n

Martin Luther King Jr., Heroism, and African American Literature.\u00a0 University of Alabama Press, 2014.<\/p>\n

The Power of the Porch:\u00a0 The Storyteller’s Craft in Zora Neale Hurston, Gloria Naylor, and Randall Kenan.\u00a0 University of Georgia Press, 1996.<\/p>\n

Saints, Sinners, Saviors: Strong Black Women in African American Literature. Palgrave\/St. Martin’s, 2001.<\/p>\n

The Scary Mason-Dixon Line:\u00a0 African American Writers and the South.\u00a0 Beacon Press, 2003.<\/p>\n

South of Tradition:\u00a0 Essays on African American Literature.\u00a0 University of\u00a0 Georgia Press, 2002.<\/p>\n

Summer Snow: Reflections from a Black Daughter of the South.\u00a0 Beacon Press, 2003.<\/p>\n

Editor:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Afro-American Writers, 1940-1955.\u00a0 Gale, 1988.<\/p>\n

Afro-American Writers before the Harlem Renaissance.\u00a0 Gale, 1986.<\/p>\n

Afro-American Writers from the Harlem Renaissance to 1940.\u00a0 Gale, 1987.<\/p>\n

New Essays on Baldwin’s Go Tell it on the Mountain.\u00a0 <\/em>New York:\u00a0 Cambridge University Press, 1996.<\/p>\n

Selected Works of Ida B. Wells-Barnett. New York; Oxford University Press, 1991.<\/p>\n

Joint_Editor;<\/strong><\/p>\n

Afro-American Fiction Writers after 1955.\u00a0\u00a0 Gale, 1984.<\/p>\n

Afro-American Poets after 1955.\u00a0 Gale, 1985.<\/p>\n

Afro-American Writers after 1955:\u00a0 Dramatists and Prose Writers. Gale, 1985.<\/p>\n

Call and Response:\u00a0 The Riverside Anthology of the African American Literary Tradition.\u00a0 Houghton Mifflin, 1998.<\/p>\n

The Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature.\u00a0 Oxford, 2001.<\/p>\n

The Literature of the American South:\u00a0 A Norton Anthology.\u00a0 W.W.Norton, 1998.<\/p>\n

The Oxford Companion to African American Literature.\u00a0 Oxford, 1997.<\/p>\n

The Oxford Companion to Women’s Writing in the United States.\u00a0 Oxford, 1995.<\/p>\n

Reading Contemporary African-American Drama: Fragments of History, Fragments of Self.\u00a0 Peter Lang Publishing, 2007.<\/p>\n

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Biography: University professor. Born– February 27, 1948, Mantua. Parents– Terrell and Unareed (Burton) Harris. Education– Stillman College, A.B., 1969; Ohio State University, M.A., 1972, Ph.D., 1973. Taught English at College of William and Mary, 1973-1979; University of North Carolina, 1979-1993; Emory University, 1993-1996; University of North Carolina, 1996-2009; University of Alabama, 2010-present. Published many articles […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-g-i"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1288"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7737,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1288\/revisions\/7737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}