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.
Biography
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.
[.] 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.
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 ,
Kukla additionally competes in powerlifting, and they have won national and state-level medals in the discipline.
Publications
Books
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R. Kukla, Mass Hysteria: Medicine, Culture and Mothers' Bodies (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005)
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R. Kukla and Mark Lance, 'Yo!' and 'Lo!': The Pragmatic Topography of the Space of Reasons (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2009)
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Q. R Kukla, City Living: How Urban Spaces and Urban Dwellers Make One Another (New York: Oxford University Press, 2021)
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Q. R Kukla, Sex Beyond 'Yes!': Pleasure and Agency for Everyone (W. W. Norton & Co., 2025)
Edited books
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R. Kukla, ed. Aesthetics and Cognition in Kant's Critical Philosophy (Cambridge University Press, 2006)
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J. Arras, R. Kukla, and E. Fenton, ed. The Routledge Companion to Bioethics (Routledge, 2012)
Dissertation
Rebecca Kukla, Conformity, Creativity, and the Social Constitution of the Subject (Department of Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh: 1995).
