Jea Sophia Oh

Dr. Jea Sophia Oh is Professor of Philosophy at West Chester University of Pennsylvania. Her research primarily focuses on the fields of Asian and comparative philosophies, religion and ecology, process philosophy, and postcolonial theory. Her first book A Postcolonial Theology of Life: Planetarity East and West (2011) is a path-making work in Korean ecofeminist theology and comparative philosophy. She is the editor and co-author of Nature’s Transcendence and Immanence: A Comparative Interdisciplinary Ecstatic Naturalism (2017), Suffering and Evil in Nature: Comparative Responses from Ecstatic Naturalism and Healing Cultures (2021), Emotions (Jeong/Qing 情) in Korean Philosophies and Religions (2022), and Greening Philosophy of Religion: Rethinking Climate Change at the Intersection of Philosophy and Religion (2024). She is the chair of the Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy (SACP) at the Central division and the International Society of Chinese Philosophy (ISCP) at the Eastern division of American Philosophical Association (APA). She also serves as the chair of the Society of Study of Process Philosophy (SSPP) at APA in all three divisions.