About the Author

The Author: Patti Lather received her Ph.D. from Indiana University in curriculum, research methodology, and women’s studies. She is a professor in the Cultural Foundations in Education Program at the School of Educational Policy and Leadership at Ohio State University, where she teaches qualitative research, feminist methodology, and gender and education. She is the author of three books, Getting Smart: Feminist Research and Pedagogy With/in the Postmodern (1991 Critics Choice Award); Troubling the Angels: Women Living with HIV/AIDS, co-authored with Chris Smithies (1998 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title); and Getting Lost: Feminist Efforts Toward a Double(d) Science (2008 Critics Choice Award). Her interests include (post)critical methodology, feminist ethnography, and poststructuralism. She is a 2009 inductee of the American Educational Research Association Fellows.