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Susan Willis  
Associate Professor of Literature and English

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

Office Hours:

by appointment

Education and Interests:

Ph.D., UC San Diego
American Literature; Critical Theory
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. S. Willis. ""Playing the Penny Slots"." Situations 2.2 (Winter, 2008)
  2. S. Willis. ""Foresnics of Spinach"." South Atlantic Quarterly 107.2 (Fall, 2007)
  3. S. Willis. "Photos: shadowing an enigma." Jean Baudrillard. Ed. Francois L'Yvonnet. Paris, Cahier de l'Herne, 2005. 
  4. S. Willis. "Disney's Besitary." Rethinking Disney: Private Control, Public Dimensions. Ed. Mike Budd. Middletown, Wesleyan University Press, 2005. 
  5. S. Willis. "What Goes Around Comes Around." Social Text 77 (Winter, 2003)  The Washington D.C. Snipers