Alice Echols

Alice Echols is Professor of English, Gender Studies and History at the University of Southern California.

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.

She authored (with foreword by Ellen Willis), 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 Hot Stuff: Disco and the Remaking of American Culture. Her book Shortfall: Family Secrets, Financial Collapse, and a Hidden History of American Banking is scheduled to be published in October 2017.

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

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