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Abby Kluchin

Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies
Coordinator, Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies

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)
  • Autonomy and Dependence

Research Interests

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

Recent Work

“Triangulation (Fragments).” Late Light: Journal of the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research, Issue 1, December 2021: https://late-light.com/issues/issue-1/triangulation

“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/.