Fr, Mark Aloysius, S.J.
Fr. Mark Aloysius, S.J.
Mark Aloysius is a Jesuit of the Malaysia-Singapore Region who is a postdoctoral instructor at the Department of Theological Studies in Loyola-Marymount University.
He was born in Sibu, Sarawak in East Malaysia. After completing an undergraduate degree in Electronics Engineering and then teaching as a Jesuit volunteer in a high school in East Timor, he joined the Society of Jesus in Singapore in 2002.
He then worked on a Masters in Philosophy at the Driyarkara School of Philosophy in Jakarta, Indonesia, writing a dissertation on Henri Poincaré’s theory of conventionalism in relation to scientific theories of space supervised by Karlina Supelli. For two years, he did advocacy work for migrants and refugees through the Malacca-Johore Diocese Migrants Desk in West Malaysia. He continued graduate theological studies in the Loyola School of Theology, Ateneo de Manila University in the Philippines and then in Heythrop College, London, obtaining an M.Th. and the STL degrees. At Heythrop, he wrote a dissertation on the question of desire in John of the Cross supervised by Edward Howells. He then completed a doctorate on desire and its political implications in Hannah Arendt and Augustine in the University of Oxford, supervised by Patrick Riordan, S.J. and Graham Ward.
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