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• 1 media/image20.jpg 2021-08-26T12:41:48-07:00 1979 - Trudier Harris (1948- ) Joins the Department of English 3 Professor Trudier Harris together with Professor Thadious Davis, who was hired in the same year, become the first Black women on the English faculty. Professor Harris remained with the department, with the exception of a brief stint at Emory University from 1993-1996, until her retirement from UNC in 2009. She held the J. Carlyle Sitterson Distinguished Professorship of English from 1988-1993 and 1996-2009. The author and editor of 24 books and numerous articles, Harris has published widely on African American literature and folklore. plain 2021-09-02T08:18:44-07:00 02/01/1979 Professor Trudier Harris together with Professor Thadious Davis, who was hired in the same year, become the first Black women on the English faculty. Professor Harris remained with the department, with the exception of a brief stint at Emory University, until her retirement from UNC in 2009. She held the J. Carlyle Sitterson Distinguished Professorship of English from 1988-1993 and 1996-2009. She is currently University Distinguished Research Professor at the University of Alabama. The author and editor of 24 books and numerous articles, Harris has published widely on African American literature and folklore. Her works treat domestic servants in Black American culture, the storyteller’s craft, lynching, strong Black women in African American literature, and the novels of Toni Morrison She also has edited several significant reference volumes on southern and African American literature and published a memoir, Summer Snow: Reflections from a Black Daughter of the South (2003). In 2005 she received the UNC System Board of Governors’ Award for Excellence in Teaching. Additionally, she founded the The George Moses Horton Society for the Study of African American Poetry in 1996, and served as its president until 2009. The Society “seeks to encourage sustained scholarly focus on the works of African American poets and to foster presentation and publishing opportunities for that scholarship” (Internet Poetry Archive). 
  
  
  
  
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  George, Courtney.  “Trudier Harris.”  Encyclopedia of Alabama.  Alabama Humanities Foundation, 2018,http://www.encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/h-2438.
  
  “Trudier Harris.” “African Americans and Integration.”  The Carolina Story: A Virtual Museum of University History. 2006. Carolina Digital Library and Archives, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, https://museum.unc.edu/exhibits/show/integration/trudier-harris.
  
  “Trudier Harris.” “Directory.”  Department of English, The University of Alabama, n.d., https://english.ua.edu/people/trudier-harris/.
  
  Internet Poetry Archive. University of North Carolina Press and North Carolina Arts Council, https://www.english.upenn.edu/people/thadious-davis.