Rebeka SperaPostdoctoral Teaching Fellow

Rebekah Spera is a Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow in Emory’s Writing Program. She graduated with her B.A. in Literature and Philosophy at Bennington College and earned her doctorate in Philosophy at Emory University. Her scholarly work focuses on social and political philosophy in the 19th and 20th centuries, specializing in Marxism and critical theory in the Frankfurt school tradition. 

Her dissertation, entitled “The Speculative Philosophy of History and Normativity: Habermas’ Middle Period,” tackles the question of how theorists interested in emancipatory projects should think about history and historical development. She is also the co-author of Professional Philosophy and Its Myths (forthcoming in winter 2024 from Lexington Books), which interrogates the gap between what philosophers believe about their own activity and the material and institutional realities of higher education. 

During her time at Emory, Dr. Spera has served as graduate fellow and writing tutor at the Emory Writing Center as well as a Visiting Assistant Professor in Philosophy. She has taught dozens of courses ranging from upper-level philosophy classes to first year writing.