Kathryn Farr is professor emerita of sociology at Portland Sate University. Her research focuses on women, gender, and crime and has been published in a number of venues, including "Battered Women Who Were 'Being Killed and Survived': Straight Talk from Survivors" in Violence and Victims; "Defeminizing and Dehumanizing Female Murderers: Portrayals of Lesbians on Death Row" in Women & Criminal Justice; "Representations of Female Evil: Cases and Characterizations of Women on Death Row," co-authored with Sheila J. Farr in Quarterly Journal of Ideology; and "Classification of Female Inmates: Moving Forward" in Crime and Delinquency. Farr's current research calls for a critical examination of violence against women, including its universal as well as culture-specific features. More broadly, Farr's work is rooted in a feminist sociology that features the intersections of gender, race, and class in structures of violence and oppression. Her commitment to feminist dialogue and social change is reflected in her long-term affiliation with women's studies at Portland State University.