Publications of Susan Willis
Books
- Willis, S; Jameson, S; Klugman, K; Kuenz, J. Strip Cultures: Finding America in Las Vegas. Duke University Press, 2015.
- Willis, S. Cartas a Legba: Um Texto Encontrado. Boitempo, 2008.
- Willis, S. Portents of the Real: A Primer for Post-9/11 America. Verso, 2005.
- 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)
- Willis, S. A Primer for Daily Life. Routledge, 1991.
- Willis, S. Specifying: Black Women Writing the American Experience. University of Wisconsin Press, 1986.
Articles in a Collection
- Willis, S. "John Muir's Sojourn in Bonaventure Cemetery." The Good Gardener? Nature, Human, and the Garden
Ed. Giesecke, A; Jacobs, N. Artifice, 2014.
- 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.
- Willis, S. "The Whole World on a Plate."
Ed. Stanley Aronowitz. Center for the Study of Culture, Technology and Work, January, 2009, 151-164.
- Willis, S. "Playing the Penny Slots." . Winter, 2008.
- Willis, S. "Forensics of Spinach." . Fall, 2007.
- Willis, S. "Work(ing) out." Cultural Studies: Volume 4, Issue 1. January, 2005, 3-20.
- Willis, S. "Disney’s Besitary." Rethinking Disney: Private Control, Public Dimensions
Ed. Budd, M. Wesleyan University Press, 2005.
- Willis, S. "Photos: Shadowing an Enigma." Jean Baudrillard
Ed. L'Yvonnet, F. Cahier de l’Herne, 2005.
- Willis, S. "Bunker Society." . 2003. (The shadow government in post 9/11 America)
- Willis, S. "What Goes Around Comes Around." . Winter, 2003. (The Washington D.C. Snipers)
- Willis, S. "Old Glory." . Spring, 2002, 375-383.
- Willis, S. "Anansi History: George Elliott Clarke's "Whylah Falls"." . 2002.
- Willis, S. "Anthrax R Us." . Winter, 2002. (anthrax hoaxes as social metaphor)
- Willis, S. "Looking at the Zoo." . Winter, 2000. (Landscape Design and the status of animals)
- Willis, S. "Imagining Dinosaurs." Girls, Boys, Toys, Gender: An Anthology of Children’s Culture
Ed. Clark, B; Higonnet, M. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999.
- Willis, S. "Deportacion: el Jucio Contra Margaret Randall." . 1998.
- Willis, S. "Teens at Work: Negotiating the Jobless Future." Generations of Youth
Ed. Austin, J; Willard, M. NYU Press, 1998.
- Willis, S. "Play for Profit." Feminisms and Pedagogies of Everyday Life
Ed. Luke, C. SUNY Press, 1995.
- Willis, S. "Memory in Mass Culture." History and Memory in African American Culture
Ed. Fabre, G; O'Meally, R. Oxford, 1994.
- Willis, S. "Hardcore: Subculture American Style." . January, 1993, 365-365.
- 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)
- Willis, S. "Specifying: Black Women Writing the American Experience." Feminisms
Ed. Warhol, RR; Herndl, DP. Rutgers, 1991.
- Willis, S. "A Primer for Daily Life." Das Argument, 189 and Ways of Reading. St. Martins Press, 1991.
- Willis, S. "Earthquake Kits: The Politics of the Trivial." . Duke University Press, Fall, 1990, 761-785.
- Willis, S. "Work(ing) Out." . Fall, 1989. (Aerobics as a commodified form of labor)
- 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)
- Willis, S. "Fantasia: Walt Disney’s Los Angeles Suite." . Fall, 1987. (Towards a theory of American popular culture)
- Willis, S. "Learning from the Banana." . Winter, 1987. (An examination of the logo as a sign of
consumer society)
- Willis, S. "Gender as Commodity." . Duke University Press, Fall, 1987, 403-421. (The influence of the commodity form on gender in children's toys)
- Willis, S. "Black Women Writers: Taking a Critical Perspective." Feminist Theory and Criticism
Ed. Greene, G; Kahn, C. Metheun, 1985.
- Willis, S. "Nobody’s Mulata." . 1984. (Transcoding metaphors of sex and race into
history)
- Willis, S. "Alice Walker’s Women." . Fall, 1984. (History and community in Walker's novels)
- 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.
- Willis, S. "Eruptions of Funk: Historicizing Toni Morrison." Black Literature and Literary Theory
Ed. Gates, H. Methuen, 1984.
- Willis, S. "The Aesthetics of the Rural Slum: Contradictions and Dependency in ‘The Bear'." Faulkner: New Perspectives
Ed. Brodhead, RH. Prentice-Hall, 1983.
- 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])
- Willis, S. "Caliban as Poet: Reversing the Maps of Dependency." . Winter, 1982. (The de-abstracting nature of Caribbean poetry [Aime Cesaire and Nicolas Guillen])
- Willis, S. "A Literary Lesson in Historical Thinking." . Fall, 1980. (An analysis of Harriette Arnow's The Dollmaker)
- 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])