Patricia Lather

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Faculty Emeritus, Department of Educational Studies

(614) 688-3044
lather.1@osu.edu

Personal Website

Education

  • PhD Curriculum and Instruction, Indiana University
  • MA American Studies, Purdue University
  • BA English, South Dakota State University

Selected Publications

Books

  • Lather, Patti, 2007. Getting Lost: Feminist Practices Toward a Double(d) Science. Albany NY: SUNY Press.
  • Lather, Patti and Chris Smithies, 1997. Troubling the Angels: Women Living With HIV/AIDS. Boulder: Westview/HarperCollins. A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Book of the Year, 1998.
  • Lather, Patti, 1991. Getting Smart: Feminist Research and Pedagogy With/in the Postmodern. New York: Routledge. "Critics Choice" Award, American Educational Studies Association, 1991.

Book chapters

  • Lather, Patti, 2007. "Front-stage/Back-stage: What Performance Where?" In Feminist Research Practice: A Primer, Sharlene Hess-Biber and Patricia Lina Leavy, eds. Thousand Oaks: Sage, 102-108.
  • Lather, Patti, 2007, "Validity, Qualitative." The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, George Ritzer, ed. Oxford: Blackwell Pub, 5161-5165.
  • Lather, Patti, and Julie Clemens, in press, "Postmodern Studies in Education." In Annette Henry and Stephen Tozer (Eds.) Handbook on Research in Social Foundations of Education. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Publishers.

Journals

  • Lather, Patti (2006) Paradigm Proliferation as a Good Thing to Think With: Teaching Qualitative Research as a Wild Profusion. Qualitative Studies in Education, 19(1), 35-57.
  • Lather, Patti and Pam Moss. 2005. Introduction: Implications of Scientific Research in Education Report for Qualitative Inquiry, special issue of Teachers College Record, 1-3.
  • Lather, Patti. 2004. Scientific Research in Education. Journal of Curriculum and Supervision, 20(1), 14-30. Joint publication with British Educational Research Journal, 30(6), 759-772, 2004.
  • Lather, Patti, 2004, This IS Your Father's Paradigm: Governmental Intrusion and the Case of Qualitative Research in Education. Qualitative Inquiry., 10(1), 15-34.
  • Reprinted in The Disciplining of Education: New Languages of Power and Resistance, J. Satterthwaite and Elizabeth Atkinson, eds. England: Trentham, 2004, 21-36 and Qualitative Inquiry and the Conservative Challenge, Norman Denzin and Michael Gjardina, eds. Walnut Creek CA: Left Coast Press, 2006, 31-56.
  • Lather, Patti, 2003, "Applied Derrida: (Mis)Reading the Work of Mourning in Educational Research," Journal of Philosophy and Education, 35(3), 257-270. Reprinted in Derrida, Deconstruction and Education: Ethics of Pedagogy and Research, Peter Trifonas and Michael Peters, eds. Oxford: Blackwell, 2004, 3-16.
  • Lather, Patti, 2002, "Postbook: Working the Ruins of Feminist Ethnography." Signs: A Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 27(1), 199-227.