Dr King-Ho Leung

Dr King-Ho Leung

Senior Research Fellow

Researcher profile

Phone
+44 (0)1334 46 4058
Email
kl322@st-andrews.ac.uk

 

Biography

King-Ho Leung joined the faculty at St Andrews in 2019, and was previously Lecturer in Philosophy and Theology at the University of Chester and Deputy Director of the Centre of Theology and Philosophy at the University of Nottingham. Dr Leung has taught on a number of programmes at St Andrews, including, most recently, a class on phenomenology and art for the Theology and the Arts MLitt for the Institute for Theology, Imagination and the Arts ‘Practical Criticism’ module and the eco-philosophy module for the SASP Philosophy MLitt.

Dr Leung is currently co-director of research of the £2 million major research project Widening Horizons in Philosophical Theology funded by the Templeton Religion Trust. He was recently elected as one of the 'Emerging Scholars in Political Theology' by the Political Theology Network and awarded a non-residential research fellowship for the Panentheism and Religious Life project hosted between Johns Hopkins University and King’s College London.

Dr Leung has published broadly in theology and philosophy (in journals including Philosophy, Continental Philosophy Review, Studies in Christian Ethics, the Neue Zeitschrift, and Modern Theology—where two of his articles were respectively recognised as ‘top-cited’ and ‘top-downloaded’ articles of 2022–2023), as well as cultural studies (in journals such as Theory, Culture & Society, Textual Practice, and Telos). He is currently completing a book on the understanding of philosophy as a spiritual practice and its relation to contemporary conceptions of secularity.

Teaching

Current and Recent Teaching

DI5453 Practical Criticism (Special topic series on phenomenology and art)
PY5215 Ecophilosophy (Sessions on phenomenology, technology, and new materalism)

Previous Teaching

DI1012 Introduction to Practical Theology and Theological Ethics (Ethics component)
DI2010 Philosophical Theology (Modern philosophy component)
DI4928 Theological Anthropology (Module covenor and sole lecturer, 2019–2020)
DI5355 Persons: Divine and Human (On topics including race, technology and personhood)

Research areas

Dr Leung's research is primarily at the intersection of philosophy, theology, and culture, with an emphasis on the phenomenology of human existence and experience, particularly spiritual yearnings and desires for the sacred and the divine. His other research interests include the metaphysics of transcendental properties, philosophies and theologies of selfhood, and the sacred/secular divide in conetmporary philosophy and the broader humanities, culture and the arts. 

PhD supervision

  • Lee Wakeman
  • Spencer Davidson

Selected publications

 

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