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Abby Kluchin

Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies
Coordinator, Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies
Co-Director, Teaching & Learning Institute
Pedagogy Coordinator, Common Intellectual Experience

Abby Kluchin specializes in Continental philosophy, with emphases in feminist theory, psychoanalysis, and poststructuralism. She is currently at work on a book project that interrogates contemporary debates over sexual ethics alongside classic philosophical texts in order to propose an intersubjective theory of consent. Deeply committed to liberal education in a variety of contexts, Abby is also co-founder and Associate Director At Large of the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research, an experimental school that conducts seminar-style courses in non-traditional spaces throughout New York City.

Department

Philosophy and Religion

Degrees

  • B.A., Swarthmore College
  • M.A., M.Phil., Columbia University
  • Ph.D., Columbia University

Teaching

  • Beauvoir and Beyond: Philosophy and Sexual Difference
  • Foucault
  • Feminist Thought
  • Introduction to Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies
  • Marx, Nietzsche, Freud
  • Trans Theory
  • Introduction to Ethics
  • Sexual Ethics: Coercion and Consent
  • Women and Religion
  • Common Intellectual Experience 100-200
  • Work and Meaning (with Nathan Rein)

Research Interests

  • Continental philosophy
  • psychoanalysis
  • feminist theory
  • poststructuralism
  • affect theory
  • coercion and consent

Recent Work

“Ceding Authority: Notes on Identity and Power in the Classroom.” The Revealer, December 10, 2019. https://therevealer.org/ceding-authority-notes-on-identity-and-power-in-the-classroom/

“Fragile Readers: Textual Contagion in Kristeva and Duras.” philoSOPHIA: a Journal of Continental Feminism, Volume 8, Number 2, Summer 2018. 

 “At the Limits of Feeling: Religion, Psychoanalysis, and the Affective Subject.” In Feeling Religion, ed John Corrigan. Duke University Press, 2018. 

 “Nevertheless, She Resisted: Problem Students and Hunting Girls.” The Revealer, May 3, 2017: https://therevealer.org/nevertheless-she-resisted-problem-students-and-hunting-girls/.