Alice Echols
Encyclopedia
Alice Echols is a cultural critic and historian. A specialist of the 1960s, Echols is Professor of English, Gender Studies and History at the University of Southern California
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from Macalester College
in 1973. She obtained her Master's degree
and Doctorate
at the University of Michigan
in 1980 and 1986 respectively.
), Daring to Be Bad: Radical Feminism in America 1967-1975.; Scars of Sweet Paradise: The Life and Times of Janis Joplin; Shaky Ground: The Sixties and Its Aftershocks; and most recently, Hot Stuff: Disco and the Remaking of American Culture. She is currently at work on a book about a Depression-era banking scandal in Colorado.
University of Southern California
The University of Southern California is a private, not-for-profit, nonsectarian, research university located in Los Angeles, California, United States. USC was founded in 1880, making it California's oldest private research university...
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Education
Echols received her Bachelor's degreeBachelor's degree
A bachelor's degree is usually an academic degree awarded for an undergraduate course or major that generally lasts for three or four years, but can range anywhere from two to six years depending on the region of the world...
from Macalester College
Macalester College
Macalester College is a private, coeducational liberal arts college located in Saint Paul, Minnesota. It was founded in 1874 as a Presbyterian-affiliated but nonsectarian college. Its first class entered September 15, 1885. The college is located on a campus in a historic residential neighborhood...
in 1973. She obtained her Master's degree
Master's degree
A master's is an academic degree granted to individuals who have undergone study demonstrating a mastery or high-order overview of a specific field of study or area of professional practice...
and Doctorate
Doctorate
A doctorate is an academic degree or professional degree that in most countries refers to a class of degrees which qualify the holder to teach in a specific field, A doctorate is an academic degree or professional degree that in most countries refers to a class of degrees which qualify the holder...
at the University of Michigan
University of Michigan
The University of Michigan is a public research university located in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the United States. It is the state's oldest university and the flagship campus of the University of Michigan...
in 1980 and 1986 respectively.
Publications
She authored (with foreword by Ellen WillisEllen Willis
Ellen Jane Willis was an American left-wing political essayist, journalist, activist and pop music critic.-Biography:...
), Daring to Be Bad: Radical Feminism in America 1967-1975.; Scars of Sweet Paradise: The Life and Times of Janis Joplin; Shaky Ground: The Sixties and Its Aftershocks; and most recently, Hot Stuff: Disco and the Remaking of American Culture. She is currently at work on a book about a Depression-era banking scandal in Colorado.
Selected bibliography
- Daring to Be Bad: Radical Feminism in America 1967-1975
- Shaky Ground: The Sixties and its Aftershocks (2002)
- Scars of Sweet Paradise: The Life and Times of Janis Joplin (1999)
- Hot Stuff: Disco and the Remaking of American Culture (2009)