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Diane Price Herndl Honored at 123rd Annual MLA Convention
The Women's Caucus of the MLA honored Diane Price Herndl at the 123rd Annual MLA Convention by awarding her the 2007 Florence Howe Award for the year's Best Essay in Feminist Studies in English.
Diane Price Herndl
The Florence Howe Award for Outstanding Feminist Scholarship, created in 1974 and administered by the Women's Caucus of the MLA, has played a major role in establishing the legitimacy and visibility of feminist inquiry. Price Herndl won the award for her essay, "Our Breasts, Ourselves: Identity, Community, and Ethics in Cancer Autobiographies," which appeared in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 32.1 (Autumn 2006): 221-45.
The award-winning papers of previous Florence Howe Award honorees (1990-2004) have been anthologized in Diversifying the Discourse: The Florence Howe Award for Outstanding Feminist Scholarship, 1990-2004 (Modern Language Association of America, 2006). Currently serving as the Director of Women's Studies, Diane Price Herndl is the author of Invalid Women: Figuring Feminine Illness in American Fiction and Culture, 1840-1940; and the co-editor of Feminisms: An Anthology of Literary Theory and Criticism and the recently published Women's Worlds: The McGraw-Hill Anthology of Women's Writing.
