Rebecca Kukla is associate professor of philosophy at Carleton University in Ottawa, and has been a visiting professor at Georgetown University, The Johns Hopkins University, and the University of Victoria. The author of Mass Hysteria: Medicine, Culture and Mothers' Bodies, she has contributed articles on epistemology, aesthetics, eighteenth century philosophy, philosophy of medicine, and bioethics to Philosophical Studies, Inquiry, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, and Hypatia, among other journals.