Namsoon Kang

Namsoon Kang is professor of Theology and Religion at Brite Divinity School, Texas Christian University. She previously taught on the Faculty of Divinity at the University of Cambridge, UK. She has been actively involved in various international ecumenical organizations and movements and was a plenary speaker at the WCC 9th Assembly in Porto Alegre, Brazil in 2006. An acclaimed speaker who lectures throughout the world, she is active in international ecumenical organizations and movements. Teaching, researching, and writing from trans-disciplinary spaces, her particular theoretical interests are in discourses of apophatic theology/philosophy, deconstruction, postmodernism, postcolonialism, feminism, and diaspora. Her writing on cosmopolitan theology engages recent theories of cosmopolitan rights, justice, and hospitality, especially those of Immanuel Kant, Hannah Arendt, and Jacques Derrida.