Dr. Kyla Bruff is an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Carleton University. She specializes in post-Kantian classical German philosophy, with particular emphasis on on the work of F.W.J. Schelling and the Frankfurt School. Kyla also works on 20th century French philosophy and applied ecological ethics, and his done community engagement work in Canada and Costa Rica. Recently, Kyla completed a Research Fellowship at the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt.

Kyla speaks and works in English, French, and German. Many of her publications trace the interactions and resonances between 19th and 20th century German and French philosophy. She is the Managing Editor of Kabiri, the Treasurer of the North American Schelling Society, and the Co-Director of For A New Earth.

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Kyla provided the first systematic reconstruction of F.W.J. Schelling's political philosophy in English in her dissertation, which is currently being worked into a book. It was co-supervised by Professor Sean J. McGrath at Memorial University and Prof. Dr. Philipp Schwab at the University of Freiburg.

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Kyla's doctoral research was primarily funded by a Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC).  Throughout her PhD studies, she has returned to Germany numerous times as a Visiting Researcher.

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Kyla completed her MA through the prestigious Erasmus Mundus Europhilosophie program from 2012-2014, fully funded for two years by the European Commission. Over the course of this program, she studied at Université Toulouse II, Bergische Universität Wuppertal, and Universität Bonn, the latter at which she wrote her thesis on Herder’s Spinozism in Schelling’s early thought under the supervision of Professor Michael Forster. 

 

Kyla also holds a BA (hons.) in Philosophy, Political Science (second major) and French (minor) from Memorial University. Her hobbies are learning languages and playing ice hockey.