Diane Price Herndl, Ph.D. University of North Carolina 1989, joined the faculty at Iowa State in 2001 after teaching at the University of Vermont and New Mexico State University (where she was Director of Women's Studies). Her research focuses on U. S. literature, medicine, and women, from a multi-disciplinary and multicultural perspective. She 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. She is currently working on two major projects, the McGraw-Hill Anthology of Women Writing in English Worldwide and a study of the representations and politics of breast cancer in contemporary culture, Thinking Through Breast Cancer.

Her teaching focuses on literary, cultural, and feminist theories as well as studies of the body, health, and disability. Courses she teaches include: WS 401: Feminist Theories; WS 510: Feminist Theories; and WS 302 X: Women, Health, and Reproduction. She also teaches several courses on women writers, including both Engl/WS 340, the survey of women writers, and a special topic course, Engl/WS 345, on women writers and the body.

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