Stephanie Corigliano

Stephanie Corigliano is an adjunct professor in the Religious Studies department at Humboldt State University and independent lecturer. Her 2015 Phd in Comparative Theology from Boston College focused on the use of theÊYogas_trasÊwithin the Modern Yoga teaching tradition of T. Krishnamacharya and engaged the work of Jean-Pierre de Caussade, S.J. to highlight the potential interdependence of devotion and detachment in spiritual practice. ÊShe recently completed the essay, ÒThe Making and Unmaking of the Self: Pata–jaliÕs Yogas_tra and the Experience of Trauma,Ó for the volume Thinking with the Yogas_tra of Pata–jali: Translation, Interpretation, edited by Ana Laura Funes and Tracy Sachs and is currently writing for the forthcoming Handbook of Hindu-Christian Relations, edited by Michelle Voss Roberts and Chad Bauman, with an essay entitled, ÒPostcolonial Theology in the Hindu-Christian Encounter.Ó Ê Stephanie is an authorized teacher of Ashtanga Yoga in the tradition of K. Pattabhi Jois and a daily practitioner since 1999. Mother of two active boys, she also maintains a 28 acre homestead in Northern California where she tends to bees and grows a variety of fruits and vegetables. Ê