Diane Long Hoeveler was born in Chicago, IL and educated at the University of Illinois-Urbana. She is a Professor of English at Marquette University in Milwaukee, WI, where she has taught since 1987. She publishes on gothic, romantic, and women's literatures.
Her most recent book, "Gothic Riffs," has won the Allan Lloyd Smith Memorial Prize, an international prize for gothic criticism that is considered to have advanced the field of Gothic studies, 2009-11. Nominations for the prize were made by members of the International Gothic Association (IGA). The IGA is the world's leading association dedicated to the study of the Gothic, consisting of over 200 researchers from 25 countries. "Gothic Riffs: Secularizing the Uncanny in the European Imaginary, 1780-1820" was published by Ohio State University Press in 2010. The winner of the prize was determined by a panel of past Presidents of the IGA, and was announced at the IGA's conference at the University of Heidelberg in August 2011. This is the inaugural award of the Allan Lloyd Smith prize named in honor of the first President of IGA who died in 2010.
