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Ann Douglas

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January 01, 1942

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Ann Douglas is Parr Professor of Comparative Literature at Columbia University. Prof. Douglas teaches twentieth-century American literature, film, music, and politics, with an emphasis on the Cold War era, African-American culture, and post-colonial approaches.

Before Columbia, Professor Douglas taught at Princeton from 1970-74 - the first woman to teach in its English Department.

She received a Bicentennial Preceptorship from Princeton for distinguished teaching in 1974, and a fellowship from the National Humanities Center in 1978-79 after publishing The Feminization of American Culture (1977). She received an NEH and Guggenheim fellowship for 1993-94.

Her study Terrible Honesty: Mongrel Manhattan in the 1920's (Farrar, Straus, 1995) recei ...more

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	Little Women by Louisa May Alcott, Ann Douglas (Introduction by) 4.17 avg rating — 2,469,960 ratings — published 1868 — 5980 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe, Ann Douglas (Introduction Author) 3.92 avg rating — 243,179 ratings — published 1852 — 5570 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac, Ann Douglas (introduction) 3.93 avg rating — 101,803 ratings — published 1958 — 233 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Flappers & Philosophers by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ann Douglas 3.95 avg rating — 5,380 ratings — published 1920 — 553 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir by Joyce Johnson, Ann Douglas (Goodreads Author) (Introduction), Ann Douglas (Introduction), Samara Naeymi (Narrator) 4.08 avg rating — 2,879 ratings — published 1983 — 46 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Studs Lonigan by James T. Farrell, Ann Douglas (Introduction) 3.81 avg rating — 2,347 ratings — published 1935 — 60 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Young Lonigan by James T. Farrell, Ann Douglas 3.46 avg rating — 1,244 ratings — published 1932 — 41 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Terrible Honesty: Mongrel Manhattan in the 1920s by Ann Douglas, Fritz Metsch (Designed by) 3.89 avg rating — 174 ratings — published 1995 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Feminization of American Culture 3.61 avg rating — 127 ratings — published 1977 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Probably everything in my life comes back to a feeling of abandonment, and this city never abandons you.”
― Ann Douglas

tags: abandonment, new-york, new-york-city, nyc

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“Just to be in Boston, in Cambridge, on a Monday night was very horrifying to me. It frightens me . . . All the stores closing up by 5 or 6, coffeehouses being open maybe until 11, just the sense that the world shuts down and you're left with yourself.”
― Ann Douglas

tags: boston

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