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University of Texas at Austin.
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Susan Somers-Willett
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She is also the author of a book of scholarly criticism, The Cultural Politics of Slam Poetry: Race, Identity, and the Performance of Popular Verse in America (University of Michigan Press, 2009), which was the first scholarly monograph on the poetry slam and which focuses on African American performance in slam and spoken word poetry. Somers-Willett holds an Bachelor of Arts from Duke University and an Master of Arts in Creative Writing and a Doctor of Philosophy in American Literature from the University of Texas at Austin. She has taught at Carnegie Mellon University, Montclair State University, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she was an Andrew West. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities.
She currently works at the University of Texas at Austin.
