Professor Timothy O'Leary
Timothy O鈥橪eary is a philosopher who has worked and studied in听Ireland,听Paris,听Hong Kong, and听Australia.
His research is in the area of contemporary European philosophy and literary studies, including the work of Michel Foucault and Jacques Ranci猫re. He听has published 2听monographs, co-edited 3 volumes, guest-edited 2 Journal Special Issues, and published many journal articles and book chapters on topics including听the work of Michel Foucault, the relations between ethics and aesthetics, the ethical dimensions of literature, and philosophical approaches to happiness.
His recent work includes:
* An essay on听鈥淔颈肠迟颈辞苍鈥檚 Critique: Gray鈥檚 Poor Things and the Conduct of Sensibility鈥, in听Textual Practice, in press.
* An article on Jacques Ranci猫re, Virginia Woolf, Annie Ernaux, and "sensibility", in the Journal of Modern Literature, 2024.
In 2022 he published a听co-edited collection of essays "The Ends of Critique: Methods, Institutions, Politics" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022):听https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781786616463/The-Ends-of-Critique-Methods-Institutions-Politics, which included his chapter on Nietzsche and "vivisection" as a metaphor for critique.
He is co-Convenor of the 91色情片 research group Critique Now:听/arts-design-architecture/our-schools/humanities-languages/our-research/centres-networks/critique-network.
He is co-General Editor of听the New Critical Humanities book series with Rowman & Littlefield:听https://rowman.com/Action/SERIES/_/RLINCH/New-Critical-Humanities.
Before coming to 91色情片 in 2018, he taught philosophy for 17 years at the University of Hong Kong, where he also served as听Associate Dean of Arts (Research & Postgraduate), the Head of the School of Humanities, and an elected member of HKU Council. At 91色情片, he was Head of the School of Humanities & Languages from Aug 2018 to Dec 2023.
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ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0009-0007-8621-696X
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My research has been funded by a large grant from the Hong Kong Research Grants Council.
* I am co-Convenor of the 91色情片 research group Critique Now:听/arts-design-architecture/our-schools/humanities-languages/our-research/centres-networks/critique-network
* I recently published a co-edited volume: K. Thiele, B.M. Kaiser, T. O'Leary (eds). 2022.听听The Ends of Critique: Methods, Institutions, Politics. London: Rowman & Littlefield:听https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781786616463/The-Ends-of-Critique-Methods-Institutions-Politics
* I am currently working on a long-term project on concepts of "sensibility" in ethics and literature. This will develop some ideas from the work of Jacques Ranci猫re, combined with a reading of various works of literature ranging from Henry James and听Virginia Woolf to Anna Burns and Annie Ernaux.听
* I am听involved in the work of an international research group called Terra Critica, based at the University of Utrecht and including researchers from a range of humanities disciplines based at universities across Europe,听the United States, and Australia.听 http://terracritica.net/
* I am co-General Editor of the series "New Critical Humanities" at Rowman & Littlefield International.
https://www.rowmaninternational.com/our-publishing/series/new-critical-humanities/
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My Research Supervision
At 91色情片, I have Supervised and co-Supervised PhD candidates working within a range of disciplines, in the areas of 20th century French philosophy, ethics, comparative Chinese-Western philosophy, literature and embodiment, and social theory.