Katy Hawkins

Katy Hawkins received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from NYU in 2006.  Her dissertation compared the cross-disciplinary work of Sedgwick and Bill T. Jones to discover how their experimentations with writerly and artistic form engender new understandings of bodily crisis.  The conclusion of this project, on the Eastern spiritual frameworks central to their work (especially Hinduism and Buddhism), launched Hawkins’ more engaged examination of mind/body relations in recent years, including training in Zazen and Shamatha/Vipassana meditation, Vedic chanting, Sanskrit, and the eight limbs of Raja Yoga as defined by Patanjali.  Her own cross-disciplinary work (culled from dance, film, poetry, and theory) has been presented at venues such as Cornelia Street Café (NYC) and The Ear Inn (NYC); and can be found in Women and Performance and The Painted Bride Quarterly.  She lives in Philadelphia where she teaches Vinyasa Yoga.  Katy was also a student in Professor Sedgwick’s Proust seminar.