Alice Echols

Alice Echols is Professor of History, and the Barbra Streisand Chair of Contemporary Gender Studies at the University of Southern California.[1][2][3]

Alice Echols
Alice Echols, 2011
Academic background
Alma mater	Macalester College, University of Michigan
Academic work
Discipline	History
Sub-discipline	Contemporary Gender Studies
Institutions	Rutgers University, University of Southern California

Education

Echols received her Bachelor's degree from Macalester College, Minnesota in 1973. She obtained her Master's degree and Doctorate at the University of Michigan in 1980 and 1986 respectively.

Career

While in graduate school at the University of Michigan, Echols visited the Rubaiyat, a since-closed[4] predominantly gay bar where the "music just stunk." After persuasion from friends, she got a trial gig and then was hired, beginning her career as a Disco DJ.[5]

She was a Visiting Associate Professor at Rutgers University starting in Spring 2007.[2]

Echols began her career as The Barbra Streisand Professor in Contemporary Gender Studies and Professor of English and History at the University of Southern California on August 15, 2011.[2]

Honors and awards

Honor or Award	Date
Rackham Dissertation Grant, The University of Michigan	1984
Center for Gender Research Fellowship	1985
University Fellowship, The University of Michigan	1986
The Horace H. Rackham Distinguished Dissertation Award, The University of Michigan	1987
ACLS Grant-in-Aid Fellowship	1990
Gustavus Meyers Outstanding Book Award-Daring to Be Bad	1990-1991
General Education Course Innovation Award	2006-2007
USC Endowed Professorship, Barbra Streisand Professor of Contemporary Gender Studies and Professor of English, Gender Studies and History	2011-2016
USC Endowed Professorship, Barbra Streisand Professor of Contemporary Gender Studies	2016-
Source:[2]

Publications

She authored Daring to Be Bad: Radical Feminism in America 1967-1975 (with foreword by Ellen Willis);[6] Scars of Sweet Paradise: The Life and Times of Janis Joplin; Shaky Ground: The Sixties and Its Aftershocks; and Hot Stuff: Disco and the Remaking of American Culture.[7] Her book Shortfall: Family Secrets, Financial Collapse, and a Hidden History of American Banking was published by The New Press on October 3, 2017.[8]

She also wrote a chapter on the Women's Liberation Movement in William McConnell's book The Counterculture Movement of the 1960s.[9]

Selected bibliography

• Daring to Be Bad: Radical Feminism in America 1967-1975 (with foreword by Ellen Willis)[6]
• Shaky Ground: The Sixties and its Aftershocks (2002)[2]
• Scars of Sweet Paradise: The Life and Times of Janis Joplin (1999)[10]
• Hot Stuff: Disco and the Remaking of American Culture (2009)[2]

References

1. Charles, Ron (March 8, 2009). "On Campus, Vampires Are Besting the Beats". The Washington Post. Retrieved February 23, 2010.
2. "Alice Echols [USC Faculty profile]". University of Southern California. Retrieved March 17, 2013. Retrieved March 17, 2013
3. "The '80s are back with 'Transformers'". Today.com. June 29, 2007. Retrieved February 23, 2010.
4. Farwell, Frank. "A Restaurant Closes, and a Community Mourns". Huffington Post. Retrieved 2 May 2018.
5. Smallwood, Christine (16 April 2010). "Back Talk: Alice Echols". Retrieved 2 May 2018.
6. "Lit up by her own blowtorch". Irish Times. March 25, 2000. Retrieved February 23, 2010.
7. Gavin, James (April 1, 2010). "Dance Dance Revolution". The New York Times. The New York Times Company. Retrieved March 19, 2017.
8. Echols, Alice (3 October 2017). Shortfall. Google Books. ISBN 9781620973042. Retrieved 2 May 2018.
9. McConnell, William S (2004). The counterculture movement of the 1960s. San Diego: Greenhaven Press. OCLC 52819791.
10. "Dissecting rock 'n' roll's first female superstar". CNN. May 24, 1999. Archived from the original on 16 February 2010. Retrieved February 23, 2010.

External links

Media related to Alice Echols at Wikimedia Commons