Keynote: “Meditations on Horror, History, Black Lives, and Literature,” by Trudier Harris

Trudier Harris, Professor of English, University of Alabama. Harris is one of the foremost scholars on African-American life and culture, from slavery to the present. Among her many publications are The Scary Mason-Dixon Line: African-American Writers and the South (Louisiana State University Press, 2009) and most recently Martin Luther King, Jr., Heroism, and African-American Literature (University of Alabama Press, 2014). The title of her conference presentation is “Meditations on Horror, History, Black Lives, and Literature.”