[1] Her primary interests include feminist philosophy, ethics, social and political theory, metaphor, and the application of these disciplines to disability studies.
[1] Kittay has also attempted to bring philosophical concerns into the public spotlight, including leading The Women's Committee of One Hundred in 1995, an organization that opposed the perceived punitive nature of the social welfare reforms taking place in the United States at the time.
[3] After receiving her doctorate, she accepted a position as visiting assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Maryland, College Park for the 1978–1979 year, before accepting a permanent position at Stony Brook University in 1979 as assistant professor.
[3] Kittay is also a senior fellow at the Center for Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care, and Bioethics at Stony Brook, and a women's studies associate.
[5] Kittay has also extended the work of John Rawls to address the concerns of women and the cognitively disabled.