Publications of Susan Willis    :recent first  alphabetical  combined  bibtex listing:

Books

1. Willis, S. Specifying: Black Women Writing the American Experience.  University of Wisconsin Press, 1986.  [abs]
2. Willis, S. A Primer for Daily Life.  Routledge, 1991.  [abs]
3. Willis, S; Klugman, K; Kuenz, J; Waldrep, S. Inside the Mouse: Work and Play at Disney World.  Duke University Press, 1995. (Co-authored with Karen Klugman, Jane Kuenz, and Shelton Waldrep)
4. Willis, S. Portents of the Real: A Primer for Post-9/11 America.  Verso, 2005.
5. Willis, S. Cartas a Legba: Um Texto Encontrado.  Boitempo, 2008.  [abs]
6. Willis, S; Jameson, S; Klugman, K; Kuenz, J. Strip Cultures: Finding America in Las Vegas.  Duke University Press, 2015.

Articles in a Collection

1. Willis, S. "The Aesthetics of the Rural Slum: Contradictions and Dependency in "The Bear"." . Spring, 1979, 82-103. (Reprinted in Faulkner, New Perspectives, ed. Richard H. Brodhead [Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1983])
2. Willis, S. "A Literary Lesson in Historical Thinking." . Fall, 1980. (An analysis of Harriette Arnow's The Dollmaker)
3. Willis, S. "Eruptions of Funk: Historicizing Toni Morrison." . Spring, 1982, 34-42. (The historical content of Morrison's metaphors. Reprinted in Black Literature and Literary Theory, ed. Henry Gates [London and New York, Methuen, 1984])
4. Willis, S. "Caliban as Poet: Reversing the Maps of Dependency." . Winter, 1982. (The de-abstracting nature of Caribbean poetry [Aime Cesaire and Nicolas Guillen])
5. Willis, S. "The Aesthetics of the Rural Slum: Contradictions and Dependency in ‘The Bear'." Faulkner: New Perspectives Ed. Brodhead, RH. Prentice-Hall, 1983.
6. Willis, S. "Nobody’s Mulata." . 1984. (Transcoding metaphors of sex and race into history)
7. Willis, S. "Alice Walker’s Women." . Fall, 1984. (History and community in Walker's novels)
8. Willis, S. "Crushed Geraniums: Juan Francisco Manzano and the Language of Slavery." The Slave’s Narrative: Texts and Contexts Ed. Davis, CT; Gates, HL. Oxford University Press, 1984.
9. Willis, S. "Eruptions of Funk: Historicizing Toni Morrison." Black Literature and Literary Theory Ed. Gates, H. Methuen, 1984.
10. Willis, S. "Black Women Writers: Taking a Critical Perspective." Feminist Theory and Criticism Ed. Greene, G; Kahn, C. Metheun, 1985.
11. Willis, S. "Fantasia: Walt Disney’s Los Angeles Suite." . Fall, 1987. (Towards a theory of American popular culture)
12. Willis, S. "Learning from the Banana." . Winter, 1987. (An examination of the logo as a sign of consumer society)
13. Willis, S. "Gender as Commodity." . Duke University Press, Fall, 1987, 403-421. (The influence of the commodity form on gender in children's toys) [Gateway.cgi]
14. Willis, S. "I Shop Therefore I Am." Changing Our Own Words Ed. Wall, CA. Rutgers University Press, 1988. (The influence of commodity culture on Afro- American cultural integrity)
15. Willis, S. "Work(ing) Out." . Fall, 1989. (Aerobics as a commodified form of labor) [Gateway.cgi]
16. Willis, S. "Earthquake Kits: The Politics of the Trivial." . Duke University Press, Fall, 1990, 761-785. [Gateway.cgi]
17. Willis, S. "Specifying: Black Women Writing the American Experience." Feminisms Ed. Warhol, RR; Herndl, DP. Rutgers, 1991.
18. Willis, S. "A Primer for Daily Life." Das Argument, 189 and Ways of Reading. St. Martins Press, 1991.
19. Willis, S. "Disney World: Public Use/Private Space." . Duke University Press, Winter, 1993, 119-137. (An examination of cultural practices at Disney World with an eye to engaging the distinction between public and private sectors) [Gateway.cgi]
20. Willis, S. "Hardcore: Subculture American Style." . January, 1993, 365-365. [doi]
21. Willis, S. "Memory in Mass Culture." History and Memory in African American Culture Ed. Fabre, G; O'Meally, R. Oxford, 1994.
22. Willis, S. "Play for Profit." Feminisms and Pedagogies of Everyday Life Ed. Luke, C. SUNY Press, 1995.
23. Willis, S. "Deportacion: el Jucio Contra Margaret Randall." . 1998.
24. Willis, S. "Teens at Work: Negotiating the Jobless Future." Generations of Youth Ed. Austin, J; Willard, M. NYU Press, 1998.
25. Willis, S. "Imagining Dinosaurs." Girls, Boys, Toys, Gender: An Anthology of Children’s Culture Ed. Clark, B; Higonnet, M. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999.
26. Willis, S. "Looking at the Zoo." . Winter, 2000. (Landscape Design and the status of animals)
27. Willis, S. "Old Glory." . Spring, 2002, 375-383.
28. Willis, S. "Anansi History: George Elliott Clarke's "Whylah Falls"." . 2002.
29. Willis, S. "Anthrax R Us." . Winter, 2002. (anthrax hoaxes as social metaphor)
30. Willis, S. "Bunker Society." . 2003. (The shadow government in post 9/11 America)
31. Willis, S. "What Goes Around Comes Around." . Winter, 2003. (The Washington D.C. Snipers)
32. Willis, S. "Disney’s Besitary." Rethinking Disney: Private Control, Public Dimensions Ed. Budd, M. Wesleyan University Press, 2005.
33. Willis, S. "Photos: Shadowing an Enigma." Jean Baudrillard Ed. L'Yvonnet, F. Cahier de l’Herne, 2005.
34. Willis, S. "Work(ing) out." Cultural Studies: Volume 4, Issue 1. January, 2005, 3-20. [doi]  [abs]
35. Willis, S. "Forensics of Spinach." . Fall, 2007.
36. Willis, S. "Playing the Penny Slots." . Winter, 2008.
37. Willis, S. "The Whole World on a Plate."  Ed. Stanley Aronowitz. Center for the Study of Culture, Technology and Work, January, 2009, 151-164.  [abs]
38. Willis, S. "Bitta-Blue Farm and the Summer of BP." Earth Perfect? Nature, Utopia and the Garden Ed. Giesecke, A; Jacobs, N. Black Dog, 2012.
39. Willis, S. "John Muir's Sojourn in Bonaventure Cemetery." The Good Gardener? Nature, Human, and the Garden Ed. Giesecke, A; Jacobs, N. Artifice, 2014.