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Faculty: Susan Willis  

Title: Associate Professor
Office Location: Friedl Building
Office Phone: (919) 668-6204
Email Address: susan.willis@duke.edu
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Education:

  • Ph.D., UC San Diego, 1977
  • B.A., with honors, UC San Diego, 1970

Research Interests:  

Associate Professor of English and The Literature Program. She teaches courses in minority writing and popular culture. She is the author of Specifying: Black Women Writing the American Experience and A Primer for Daily Life. She is coauthor of Inside the Mouse: Work and Play at Disney World. Her work aims at revealing the contradictions of capitalism in everyday life and discovering utopian content in culture.

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

Books

  • S. Willis. Cartas a Legba.  Boitempo, May, 2008 .  [abs]
Book in Progress
  • with  Vegas Inside and Out. 2011
Articles in a Journal
  • S. Willis. "The Whole World on a Plate." Situations 111.1 (January, 2009): 151-164.  [abs]
  • S. Willis. ""Playing the Penny Slots"." Situations 2.2 (Winter, 2008).
  • S. Willis. ""Foresnics of Spinach"." South Atlantic Quarterly 107.2 (Fall, 2007).

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