Publications of Susan Willis    :chronological  combined  bibtex listing:

Books

1. Willis, S. A Primer for Daily Life.  Routledge, 1991.  [abs]
2. Willis, S. Cartas a Legba: Um Texto Encontrado.  Boitempo, 2008.  [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. Specifying: Black Women Writing the American Experience.  University of Wisconsin Press, 1986.  [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. "A Literary Lesson in Historical Thinking." . Fall, 1980. (An analysis of Harriette Arnow's The Dollmaker)
2. Willis, S. "A Primer for Daily Life." Das Argument, 189 and Ways of Reading. St. Martins Press, 1991.
3. Willis, S. "Alice Walker’s Women." . Fall, 1984. (History and community in Walker's novels)
4. Willis, S. "Anansi History: George Elliott Clarke's "Whylah Falls"." . 2002.
5. Willis, S. "Anthrax R Us." . Winter, 2002. (anthrax hoaxes as social metaphor)
6. 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.
7. Willis, S. "Black Women Writers: Taking a Critical Perspective." Feminist Theory and Criticism Ed. Greene, G; Kahn, C. Metheun, 1985.
8. Willis, S. "Bunker Society." . 2003. (The shadow government in post 9/11 America)
9. Willis, S. "Caliban as Poet: Reversing the Maps of Dependency." . Winter, 1982. (The de-abstracting nature of Caribbean poetry [Aime Cesaire and Nicolas Guillen])
10. 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.
11. Willis, S. "Deportacion: el Jucio Contra Margaret Randall." . 1998.
12. 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]
13. Willis, S. "Disney’s Besitary." Rethinking Disney: Private Control, Public Dimensions Ed. Budd, M. Wesleyan University Press, 2005.
14. Willis, S. "Earthquake Kits: The Politics of the Trivial." . Duke University Press, Fall, 1990, 761-785. [Gateway.cgi]
15. Willis, S. "Eruptions of Funk: Historicizing Toni Morrison." Black Literature and Literary Theory Ed. Gates, H. Methuen, 1984.
16. 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])
17. Willis, S. "Fantasia: Walt Disney’s Los Angeles Suite." . Fall, 1987. (Towards a theory of American popular culture)
18. Willis, S. "Forensics of Spinach." . Fall, 2007.
19. 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]
20. Willis, S. "Hardcore: Subculture American Style." . January, 1993, 365-365. [doi]
21. 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)
22. Willis, S. "Imagining Dinosaurs." Girls, Boys, Toys, Gender: An Anthology of Children’s Culture Ed. Clark, B; Higonnet, M. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999.
23. Willis, S. "John Muir's Sojourn in Bonaventure Cemetery." The Good Gardener? Nature, Human, and the Garden Ed. Giesecke, A; Jacobs, N. Artifice, 2014.
24. Willis, S. "Learning from the Banana." . Winter, 1987. (An examination of the logo as a sign of consumer society)
25. Willis, S. "Looking at the Zoo." . Winter, 2000. (Landscape Design and the status of animals)
26. Willis, S. "Memory in Mass Culture." History and Memory in African American Culture Ed. Fabre, G; O'Meally, R. Oxford, 1994.
27. Willis, S. "Nobody’s Mulata." . 1984. (Transcoding metaphors of sex and race into history)
28. Willis, S. "Old Glory." . Spring, 2002, 375-383.
29. Willis, S. "Photos: Shadowing an Enigma." Jean Baudrillard Ed. L'Yvonnet, F. Cahier de l’Herne, 2005.
30. Willis, S. "Play for Profit." Feminisms and Pedagogies of Everyday Life Ed. Luke, C. SUNY Press, 1995.
31. Willis, S. "Playing the Penny Slots." . Winter, 2008.
32. Willis, S. "Specifying: Black Women Writing the American Experience." Feminisms Ed. Warhol, RR; Herndl, DP. Rutgers, 1991.
33. Willis, S. "Teens at Work: Negotiating the Jobless Future." Generations of Youth Ed. Austin, J; Willard, M. NYU Press, 1998.
34. 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])
35. Willis, S. "The Aesthetics of the Rural Slum: Contradictions and Dependency in ‘The Bear'." Faulkner: New Perspectives Ed. Brodhead, RH. Prentice-Hall, 1983.
36. 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]
37. Willis, S. "What Goes Around Comes Around." . Winter, 2003. (The Washington D.C. Snipers)
38. Willis, S. "Work(ing) out." Cultural Studies: Volume 4, Issue 1. January, 2005, 3-20. [doi]  [abs]
39. Willis, S. "Work(ing) Out." . Fall, 1989. (Aerobics as a commodified form of labor) [Gateway.cgi]