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Susan Willis  
Associate Professor of Literature and English

Office Location: Literature
Office Phone: (919) 668-6204
Email Address:

Office Hours:

Spring 2011
Thursdays 12:30-2:00pm (101A Friedl)

Education:

Ph.D., UC San Diego

B.A., with honors, UC San Diego
Specialties:

American Literature
Critical Theory
Modern to Contemporary
Susan Willis is the author of Specifying: Black Women Writing the American Experience (University of Wisconsin Press, 1987) and a book on mass culture, A Primer For Daily Life (Routledge, 1990). She is co-author of Inside the Mouse: Work and Play at Walt Disney World (Duke University Press, 1995).

Representative Publications   (More Publications)

  1. with  "Vegas Inside and Out."  2011
  2. S. Willis. "The Whole World on a Plate." Situations Ed. Stanley Aronowitz. 111.1Center for the Study of Culture, Technology and Work, (January, 2009): 151-164.  [abs]
  3. S. Willis. ""Playing the Penny Slots"." Situations 2.2 (Winter, 2008)
  4. S. Willis. Cartas a Legba. Boitempo, May, 2008.  [abs]
  5. S. Willis. ""Foresnics of Spinach"." South Atlantic Quarterly 107.2 (Fall, 2007)

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