Trudier Harris is University Distinguished Research Professor Emerita of English, the University of Alabama, and J. Carlyle Sitterson Distinguished Professor Emerita of English, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she taught courses in African American literature and folklore. A few of her many published books are The Scary Mason-Dixon Line: African American Writers and the South; Martin Luther King Jr., Heroism, and African American Literature; Depictions of Home in African American Literature, and her memoir, Summer Snow: Reflections from a Black Daughter of the South. On March 10, 2023, Dr. Harris was inducted into the Alabama Writers Hall of Fame.