I am Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University. Until 2024, I was also Director of Disability Studies and a Senior Research Scholar in the Kennedy Institute of Ethics here at Georgetown. I also hold honorary positions at the University of Johannesburg, Queen’s University Belfast, and Technische Universität Berlin. For much of 2025 and 2026 I will be a fellow at the SOCRATES Institute at Leibniz Universität Hannover. I work on ethics (including bioethics, sexual ethics, health communication ethics, and science ethics), feminist and anti-oppression philosophy, philosophy of science (especially medicine and geography), philosophy of language, social epistemology, philosophy of place and urban theory, and aesthetics. I’m also a competitive amateur boxer and powerlifter. My pronouns are they/them.

Coming soon! My book Sex Beyond Yes! Pleasure and Agency for Everyone, will be published with W. W. Norton & Co. in 2025.

Recently released! My book City Living: How Urban Spaces and Urban Dwellers Make One Another is now out from Oxford University Press.

A note on citing me, since I get this question a lot: All my papers before 2020 were published under the name “Rebecca Kukla” (or in one early case, “R. Kukla”). If you are citing one of these papers, please put it in the bibliography as originally published. Then in the text, if you mention me, the first mention should be of the form, “Quill Kukla (writing as Rebecca Kukla) makes the following devastatingly brilliant point…”. After the first mention, “Kukla” generally suffices.