Quill R. Kukla | |
Birth Name: | Rebecca Kukla |
Birth Place: | Los Angeles, United States |
Alma Mater: | University of Pittsburgh |
Occupation: | Philosopher, Geographer |
Era: | Contemporary philosophy |
School Tradition: | Pittsburgh school, Standpoint theory |
Institutions: | Georgetown University |
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Doctoral Advisor: | John Haugeland |
Main Interests: | Bioethics, epistemology, philosophy of language, feminist philosophy |
Influences: | Wilfrid Sellars |
Quill Kukla (previously known as Rebecca Kukla) is a Canadian and American philosopher. They are a Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University and the Senior Research Scholar at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics. In 2020 and 2021, they were Humboldt Research Scholar at Leibniz University Hannover.[1] They are known for their work in bioethics, analytic epistemology, philosophy of language, and feminist philosophy.[2]
Kukla received their bachelor's degree in philosophy at the University of Toronto in 1990, and their PhD in philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh, where their supervisor was John Haugeland.[3] Kukla held various academic appointments in the United States and Canada before taking up their current post at Georgetown; these include Johns Hopkins University, Queen's University at Kingston, Carleton University (where they held a tenured appointment), and the University of South Florida. At the latter, they were 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. They were formerly co-coordinator of the Feminist Approaches to Bioethics Network. They completed a master's degree in geography at Hunter College in 2019.
Kukla has been interviewed about their work in various venues, including 3AM,[4] Washington Post, Huffington Post, Slate, and Quartz. Their work on historical, cultural, and political attitudes towards bodies, especially those of mothers and pregnant women—found in their book, Mass Hysteria: Medicine, Culture, and Mothers' Bodies—has led to their being interviewed and authoring media articles on topics including the culture of pregnancy,[5] [6] sexual fetish,[7] and attitudes towards race and obesity.[8] They are a vocal defender of women, ethnic minorities, and other minorities, especially in academia, and have been interviewed in the media on this topic.[9] [10]
They have won national and state-level medals in powerlifting.[11]
Books
Edited books
Dissertation
Rebecca Kukla, Conformity, Creativity, and the Social Constitution of the Subject (Department of Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh: 1995).[12]