Corinna May Lhoir, M.A.
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Corinna May Lhoir is a Lecturer of Yoga History and a doctoral researcher in Indology at the Asia-Africa Institute, affiliated with the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (Cluster of Excellence “Understanding Written Artefacts”). Her research focuses on Jain Yoga, medieval Indian philosophy, and manuscript cultures across multiple linguistic traditions.
Her current doctoral project explores the Yogapradīpa, a 15th-century Jain Yoga compendium, and its reception through multilingual manuscript commentaries (ṭabos and bālāvabodhas). Drawing from extensive philological work and field experience in India and Europe, her research investigates textual transmission, philosophical adaptation, and the vernacularisation of Yoga knowledge in Jain traditions.
Corinna May Lhoir has taught on Jain philosophy, Indian intellectual history, and philological traditions of Yoga. At the University of Hamburg, she has designed and delivered courses on Introduction to Jain Philosophy and Jain Yoga, Indian Intellectual History, and Origins of Yoga at both undergraduate and continuing education levels. Her teaching is often hybrid and combines close textual analysis with broader cultural and philosophical framing.
She also contributes to international and digital learning environments: her blended-learning course Light on the Dark Age of Jain Yoga (Arihanta Institute, 2025) offers a historical-philological introduction to medieval Jain Yoga texts. In 2024, she taught a master class on Yoga history at Ghent University (ERASMUS+) and was previously invited to guest lecture at SOAS, University of London.