King-Ho Leung joined the faculty at King’s College London in September 2024. He was previously Senior Research Fellow at the University of St Andrews, 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 is formally trained in philosophy, theology, political theory, and—for a brief time—fine art.

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.

Research interests and PhD supervision

• Existential phenomenology
• Philosophy of religion
• Theological and religious metaphysics
• Religion and culture (including Christian theology and the arts)
• Political theology (especially in relation to technological culture)

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 contemporary philosophy and the broader humanities, culture and the arts.

Teaching

Dr Leung teaches in the areas of theology and philosophy and their relation to culture and the arts.

Expertise and Public Engagement

Dr Leung has given talks for TEDx and St John’s Timeline on YouTube. His public-facing writing has appeared in magazines such as Commonweal and Plough Quarterly. Dr Leung also contributes regularly to current dialogues between contemporary culture, philosophy, and religion (for example, Taylor Swift and philosophy).

Selected publications

• ‘Transcendentality and Conversation’, Modern Theology 38, no. 4 (2022): 796–816.
• ‘Sartre and Marion on Intentionality and Phenomenality’, Theory, Culture & Society 39, no. 1 (2022): 41–60.
• ‘Transcendentality and the Gift’, Modern Theology 38, no. 1 (2022): 81–99.
• ‘Transcendentality and Nothingness in Sartre’s Atheistic Ontology’, Philosophy 95, no. 4 (2020): 471–495.
• ‘The Technologisation of Grace: Meta-theological Insights from Transhumanism’, Studies in Christian Ethics 33, no. 4 (2020): 479–495."