Patti Lather to speak at Midwest Conference

The opening session of the Midwest Research-to-Practice Conference Thursday, Oct. 9, will feature Dr. Patti Lather, who teaches qualitative research in gender and education at Ohio State. In addition to her books Troubling the Angels: Women Living with HIV/AIDS (1997, with Chris Smithies) and Getting Smart: Feminist Research and Pedagogy With/In the Postmodern (1991), recent articles have appeared in the Journal of Curriculum Theorizing 17(3), 2001; Signs: A Journal of Women in Culture and Society 27(1), 2001; Women, Gender and Research 4, 2000; Qualitative Studies in Education 13(2), 2000; Review of Educational Research 69(1), 1999; Educational Theory 48(4), 1998; and Harvard Educational Review 66(3), 1996.

In April Dr. Lather chaired the Presidential Invited Session “Yes, But Is It Science? Implications of the 2002 NRC Scientific Research in Education Report for Qualitative Inquiry” at the American Educational Research Association 84th annual meeting, Chicago, April 21-25, 2003. At AERA this year she also presented “This IS Your Father’s Paradigm: Government Intrusion and the Case of Qualitative Research in Education” and “Applied Derrida: (Mis)Reading the Work of Mourning in Educational Research.”

Patti Lather’s Web site is at http://www.coe.ohio-state.edu/plather/

Midwest conference registration form.