Scholars@Duke

• Background
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  Education, Training, & Certifications

  • Ph.D., University of California - San Diego 1977
  • B.A., University of California - San Diego 1970
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  Previous Appointments & Affiliations

  • Associate Professor of English, English, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2000 - 2016
  • Associate Professor of Literature, Literature, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2000 - 2016
  • Associate Professor with Tenure, English, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1991 - 2000
  • Associate Professor, Literature, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1995 - 1999
  • Assistant Professor, English, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1989 - 1991
  • Assistant Professor, Romance Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1985 - 1988
• Expertise
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  • Nature
• Publications & Artistic Works
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  Selected Publications

  • Books

    • Willis, Susan, Stacy Jameson, Karen Klugman, and Jane Kuenz. Strip Cultures: Finding America in Las Vegas. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2015.
    • Willis, S. Cartas a Legba: Um Texto Encontrado. Sao Paolo: Boitempo, 2008.
    • Willis, Susan. Portents of the Real: A Primer for Post-9/11 America. London: Verso, 2005.
    • Willis, S., K. Klugman, J. Kuenz, and S. Waldrep. Inside the Mouse: Work and Play at Disney World. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1995.
    • Willis, S. A Primer for Daily Life. London: Routledge, 1991.
    • Willis, S. Specifying: Black Women Writing the American Experience. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1986.

  • Academic Articles

    • Willis, S. “The Whole World on a Plate.” Situations 111, no. 1 (January 2009): 151–64.
    • Willis, S. “Playing the Penny Slots.” Situations 2, no. 2 (2008).
    • Willis, S. “Forensics of Spinach.” South Atlantic Quarterly 107, no. 2 (2007).
    • Willis, S. “What Goes Around Comes Around.” Social Text 77 (2003).
    • Willis, S. “Bunker Society.” New Left Review 22 (2003).
    • Willis, S. “Anthrax R Us.” Social Text 73 (2002).
    • Willis, S. “Anansi History: George Elliott Clarke's "Whylah Falls".” Journal of Commonwealth and Post Colonial Studies 9, no. 1 (2002).
    • Willis, S. “Old Glory.” South Atlantic Quarterly 101, no. 2 (2002): 375–83.
    • Willis, S. “Looking at the Zoo.” South Atlantic Quarterly, 2000.
    • Willis, S. “Deportacion: el Jucio Contra Margaret Randall.” Casa De Las Americas 212 (1998).
    • Willis, Susan. “Hardcore: Subculture American Style.” Critical Inquiry 19, no. 2 (January 1993): 365–365. https://doi.org/10.1086/448678.
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    • Willis, Susan. “Disney World: Public Use/Private Space.” South Atlantic Quarterly 92, no. 1 (1993): 119–37.
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    • Willis, Susan. “Earthquake Kits: The Politics of the Trivial.” South Atlantic Quarterly 89, no. 4 (1990): 761–85.
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    • Willis, Susan. “Work(ing) Out.” Cultural Studies, 1989.
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    • Willis, Susan. “Gender as Commodity.” South Atlantic Quarterly 86, no. 4 (1987): 403–21.
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    • Willis, S. “Learning from the Banana.” American Quarterly 39, no. 4 (1987).
    • Willis, S. “Fantasia: Walt Disney’s Los Angeles Suite.” Diacritics, 1987.
    • Willis, S. “Alice Walker’s Women.” New Orleans Review, 1984.
    • Willis, S. “Nobody’s Mulata.” Ideologies and Literature 4, no. 17 (1984).
    • Willis, S. “Caliban as Poet: Reversing the Maps of Dependency.” Massachusetts Review 23, no. 4 (1982).
    • Willis, S. “Eruptions of Funk: Historicizing Toni Morrison.” Black American Literature Forum 16, no. 1 (1982): 34–42.
    • Willis, S. “A Literary Lesson in Historical Thinking.” Social Text 3 (1980).
    • Willis, S. “The Aesthetics of the Rural Slum: Contradictions and Dependency in "The Bear".” Social Text 2 (1979): 82–103.

  • Book Sections

    • Willis, S. “John Muir's Sojourn in Bonaventure Cemetery.” In The Good Gardener? Nature, Human, and the Garden, edited by Annette Giesecke and Naomi Jacobs. Artifice, 2014.
    • Willis, S. “Bitta-Blue Farm and the Summer of BP.” In Earth Perfect? Nature, Utopia and the Garden, edited by Annette Giesecke and Naomi Jacobs. Black Dog, 2012.
    • Willis, S. “Work(ing) out.” In Cultural Studies: Volume 4, Issue 1, 3–20, 2005. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203988466.
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    • Willis, S. “Photos: Shadowing an Enigma.” In Jean Baudrillard, edited by Francois L’Yvonnet. Paris: Cahier de l’Herne, 2005.
    • Willis, S. “Disney’s Besitary.” In Rethinking Disney: Private Control, Public Dimensions, edited by Mike Budd. Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 2005.
    • Willis, S. “Imagining Dinosaurs.” In Girls, Boys, Toys, Gender: An Anthology of Children’s Culture, edited by Beverly Clark and Margaret Higonnet. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999.
    • Willis, S. “Teens at Work: Negotiating the Jobless Future.” In Generations of Youth, edited by Joe Austin and Mike Willard. New York: NYU Press, 1998.
    • Willis, S. “Play for Profit.” In Feminisms and Pedagogies of Everyday Life, edited by Carmen Luke. New York: SUNY Press, 1995.
    • Willis, S. “Memory in Mass Culture.” In History and Memory in African American Culture, edited by Genevieve Fabre and Robert O’Meally. New York: Oxford, 1994.
    • Willis, S. “A Primer for Daily Life.” In Das Argument, 189 and Ways of Reading. St. Martins Press, 1991.
    • Willis, S. “Specifying: Black Women Writing the American Experience.” In Feminisms, edited by R. R. Warhol and D. P. Herndl. Rutgers, 1991.
    • Willis, S. “I Shop Therefore I Am.” In Changing Our Own Words, edited by Cheryl A. Wall. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1988.
    • Willis, S. “Black Women Writers: Taking a Critical Perspective.” In Feminist Theory and Criticism, edited by Gayle Greene and Coppelia Kahn. London and New York: Metheun, 1985.
    • Willis, S. “Eruptions of Funk: Historicizing Toni Morrison.” In Black Literature and Literary Theory, edited by H. Gates. London & New York: Methuen, 1984.
    • Willis, S. “Crushed Geraniums: Juan Francisco Manzano and the Language of Slavery.” In The Slave’s Narrative: Texts and Contexts, edited by Charles T. Davis and H. L. Gates. New York: Oxford University Press, 1984.
    • Willis, S. “The Aesthetics of the Rural Slum: Contradictions and Dependency in ‘The Bear'.” In Faulkner: New Perspectives, edited by R. H. Brodhead. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1983.

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