Quill Kukla
Quill R. Kukla | |
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Born | Rebecca Kukla |
Alma mater | University of Pittsburgh |
Occupation(s) | Philosopher, Geographer |
Era | Contemporary philosophy |
School | Pittsburgh school, Standpoint theory |
Institutions | Georgetown University |
Doctoral advisor | John Haugeland |
Main interests | Bioethics, epistemology, philosophy of language, feminist philosophy |
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]
Biography
[edit]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]
Publications
[edit]Books
- Q. R Kukla, City Living: How Urban Spaces and Urban Dwellers Make One Another (New York: Oxford University Press 2021).
- 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. The Routledge Companion to Bioethics (Routledge 2012).
- R. Kukla, ed. Aesthetics and Cognition in Kant's Critical Philosophy (Cambridge University Press 2006).
Dissertation
Rebecca Kukla, Conformity, Creativity, and the Social Constitution of the Subject (Department of Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh: 1995).[12]
References
[edit]- ^ "Visiting scholars at the Institute of Philosophy".
- ^ "Rebecca Kukla, PhD » the Kennedy Institute of Ethics".
- ^ a b "CV" (PDF). kennedyinstitute.georgetown.edu. 2014. Archived version.
- ^ "The relentless naturalist -". 2013-05-27.
- ^ "Are all women born to be mothers?".
- ^ "How "Pickles and Ice Cream" Became the Iconic "Crazy" Snack for Pregnant Women". 2018-04-18.
- ^ "Inside the Lactation Fetish That Imagines Women as Cows". 2018-04-24.
- ^ "Eric Garner and the Value of Black Obese Bodies". 2014-12-17.
- ^ "One spreadsheet reveals the horrifying ubiquity of sexual harassment in academia".
- ^ "Worried About a Bleak Future, Climate Change Activists Hesitant to Have Kids".
- ^ "Lifting Database".
- ^ Kukla, Rebecca (1995). Conformity, Creativity, and the Social Constitution of the Subject (PhD thesis). University of Pittsburgh.
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