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  • December 12, 2006

    Diane Price-Herndl named director of Iowa State's Women's Studies Program

  • Diane Price-Herndl, associate professor of English and Women's Studies at Iowa State University, has been named director of the Women's Studies Program in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS).

    Price-Herndl's appointment will begin at the start of the 2007 spring semester. Kathy Hickok, professor of English and Women's Studies, served as the interim director of the program during the 2006 fall semester.

    The Women's Studies Program offers an undergraduate major and minor and a graduate minor. The program was established in 1977 and has over 60 affiliated faculty members.

    Price-Herndl studies cultural representations of women and illness, and works in feminist, critical and disability theory. Her current work-in-progress includes an anthology of women's writings in English worldwide and a book on breast cancer in contemporary American culture.

    She is the author of Invalid Women: Figuring Feminine Illness in American Fiction and Culture, 1840-1940 and co-editor of Feminisms: An Anthology of Literary Theory and Criticism.

    She is also an associate editor of the NWSA Journal, the journal of the National Women's Studies Association, which is based at Iowa State.

    A member of the Iowa State faculty since 2001, Price-Herndl previously taught at New Mexico State University and the University of Vermont. She was previously the director of the Women's Studies Program at New Mexico State.

    Price-Herndl received her Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina. She also has degrees from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities and Texas Christian University.

Diane Price-Herndl

 

 
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