Alice Echols

Alice Echols is Professor of American Studies and History at Rutgers University. As a graduate student at the University of Michigan, she engaged in dissertation-avoidance by moonlighting as a disco/funk deejay. Besides Hot Stuff, featured in her Rorotoko book interview, Alice Echols is the author of Scars of Sweet Paradise: The Life and Times of Janis Joplin, Daring to Be Bad: Radical Feminism in America, 1967-75, and Shaky Ground: The Sixties and Its Aftershocks. Now she is writing a book about a Depression-era family scandal involving her maternal grandfather, a banker.