Diane Price Herndl studies cultural representations of women and illness, and works in feminist, critical, and disability theory. Her current work-in-progress is a book on breast cancer in contemporary American culture.  Her new, shorter, edition of Feminisms  just came out in October 2009.

Office/Office Hours

• office: 231 Ross
• office hours: by appointment (09-10)
• office phone: no phone; leave messages at (515) 294-3625
• email: dph@iastate.edu

Interests

• Feminist Theory
• Disability Studies
• American literature & culture
• Rhetorical constructions of the body

Selected Publications

• Invalid Women: Figuring Feminine Illness in American Fiction and Culture, 1840-1940. Chapel Hill, NC: U of North Carolina P, 1993.
• Feminisms: An Anthology of Literary Criticism and Theory, ed. with Robyn R. Warhol. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers UP, 1991; 2nd edition, 1997. 
• Women's Worlds:  The McGraw-Hill Anthology of Women's Writing, co-edited with Robyn Warhol-Down, Mary Lou Kete, Lisa Schnell, Beth Kowaleski-Wallace, and Rashmi Varma.  New York:  McGraw-Hill, 2008.
• Feminisms Redux:  An Anthology of Literary Criticism and Theory, ed. with Robyn Warhol-Down.  New Brunswick, NJ:  Rutgers UP, 2009.
• "Our Breasts, Our Selves: Identity, Community, and Ethics in Cancer Autobiographies." Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 32.1 (Autumn 2006): 221-45.  Winner of the Florence Howe Award (Women's Caucus for the MLA, Best Essay in Feminist Criticism of the Year)
• "Disease v. Disability: The Medical Humanities and Disability Studies." PMLA: Publications of the Modern Language Association. 120.2 (2005): 593-8.
• "Johnny Mnemonic Meets the Bimbo: Feminist Pedagogy and Postmodern Performance." eds. Diane Freedman and Martha Stoddard Holmes. The Teacher's Body. Albany: State U of New York P, 2003. 59-68.
• "Reconstructing the Posthuman Feminist Body Twenty Years after Audre Lorde's Cancer Journals." Enabling the Humanities: A Sourcebook for Disability Studies in Language and Literature. eds. Rosemarie Thomson Garland, Brenda Brueggeman, Sharon Snyder. New York: MLA, 2002. 144-55.
• "Invalid Masculinity: Silence, Hospitals, and Anesthesia in A Farewell to Arms." The Hemingway Review 21.1 (2001): 38 - 53.
• "Style and the Sentimental Gaze in Last of the Mohicans." Narrative 9.3 (2001): 259 - 83.

Forthcoming Publications

• Thinking Through Breast Cancer. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers UP, expected publication, 2010.
  

Affiliations

• Modern Language Association
• Society for Disability Studies
• National Women's Studies Association (Associate Editor, NWSA Journal)

Degrees

• Ph.D., English, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill.
• M.A., English, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities.
• B.A., English, Texas Christian University.

Links

• ISU Women's Studies Program