Quill Kukla

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Rebecca Kukla is a Canadian and American philosopher. She is Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University and Senior Research Scholar at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics. She is known for her work in bioethics, analytic epistemology, philosophy of language, and feminist philosophy.^[1]

Kukla received her BA in philosophy at the University of Toronto in 1990, and her PhD in philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh, where her supervisor was John Haugeland.^[2] Kukla held various academic appointments in the United States and Canada before taking up her current post at Georgetown; these include Johns Hopkins University, Queens University, Carleton University (where she held a tenured appointment), and the University of South Florida. At the latter, she was Professor in both the Department of Philosophy and in the School of Medicine.^[3] Kukla is Editor-in-Chief of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal and former Editor-in-Chief of Public Affairs Quarterly. She was formerly co-coordinator of the Feminist Approaches to Bioethics Network. She is currently finishing an MA in Geography at CUNY.

Kukla has been interviewed about her work in various venues, including 3AM^[4], Washington Post, Huffington Post, Slate, and Quartz. Her work on historical, cultural, and political attitudes towards bodies, especially those of mothers and pregnant women - found in her book, Mass Hysteria: Medicine, Culture, and Mothers' Bodies - has led to her being interviewed or authoring media articles on topics including the culture of pregnancy^[5][6], sexual fetish^[7], and attitudes towards race and obesity^[8]. She is a vocal defender of women and ethnic and other minorities, especially in academia, and has been interviewed in the media on this topic^[9][10].

Kukla is a certified sommelier^[11] and a competitive boxer and powerlifter. She has won national and state-level medals in powerlifting^[12]. She has been interviewed about her boxing and powerlifting in HuffPost^[13].

BOOKS

R. Kukla and M. Lance, ‘Yo!’ and ‘Lo!’: The Pragmatic Topography of the Space of Reasons. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press 2009).

R. Kukla, Mass Hysteria: Medicine, Culture and Mothers’ Bodies. (Lanham, MD:Rowman and Littlefield 2005).

EDITED BOOKS

J. Arras, R. Kukla, and E. Fenton , ed. A Routledge Companion to Bioethics. : Routledge, 2012.

R. Kukla, ed. Aesthetics and Cognition in Kant’s Critical Philosophy . : Cambridge University Press, 2006.

ARTICLES

Kukla has published widely in social epistemology, philosophy of language, philosophy of the applied sciences especially geography and medicine, and feminist and anti-oppressive philosophy. For a full list of her articles, see her institutional website.

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