Marissa Clarke
Thesis title: "Sensing Yoga Bodies"
Religious Studies
Year of study: 4
- School of Divinity
- Edinburgh College of Art
Contact details
- Email: s1691304@ed.ac.uk
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School of Divinity, Mound Place
Edinburgh - City
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Background
Marissa Clarke is a PhD candidate at the University of Edinburgh (2021 - 2025) and Visiting Doctoral Researcher at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre (2024). Her research explores the phenomenology of yoga, the body, and sound. She has an interdisciplinary background in yoga studies, religious studies, marketing studies, and health research. Her work is funded by the Scottish Graduate School for Arts & Humanities AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership.
Qualifications
MSc International Marketing, Distinction
BA (Hons) Marketing, First Class
Undergraduate teaching
Guest Lecturer - New Spiritualities (Semester 1, 2022-23)
Tutor - Religion in Modern Britain (Semester 2, 2022-23)
Tutor - Studying Religions (Semester 1, 2023 - 2024)
Current research interests
modern yoga research, philosophy of perception, the senses, sonic arts, practice-researchConference details
Clarke, M (2024) Acoustemologies of Breath: Sounding and Listening in Contemporary Yoga. Yoga Darśana, Yoga Sādhana: Introspection, Inspiration, Institutionalisation. University of Hamburg, Germany.
Clarke, M (2022) Yoga and The Gig Economy: Pandemic, Precarity and Yoga Teacher Labour. Yoga Darśana, Yoga Sādhana: Methods, Migrations, Mediations. Jagiellonian University, Poland.