taliawelsh
Tennessee
Talia Welsh is a widely accomplished academic with expertise in the fields of feminist theory, philosophy of psychology, continental philosophy, and phenomenology. Talia Welsh began her education at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington. After earning a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy and Business Administration in 1995, Talia Welsh enrolled in a graduate program at Stony Brook University. Talia Welsh’s dissertation focused on the work of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, a French philosopher whose studies focused extensively on phenomenology, and she left Stony Brook with a Ph.D. in Philosophy in 2002. During her tenure at Stony Brook, Talia Welsh studied abroad in Germany with the Collegium Philosophiae Transatlanticum at the University of Wuppertal. A teacher, writer, lecturer, researcher, and translator, Talia Welsh balances a rich intellectual life and a rigorous schedule. Currently, Talia Welsh is a faculty member of the department of philosophy and religion at The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UTC).
During her graduate studies at Stony Brook University, Talia Welsh also served as an Instructor, teaching courses in basic philosophy and reasoning for three years. During her time at Stony Brook, Talia Welsh was an adjunct with Dowling College in Oakdale, New York, teaching both philosophy and a senior seminar. Presently a tenured Associate Professor at UTC, Talia Welsh teaches courses in women’s studies, 19th century philosophy, ethics, and phenomenology, as well as classes that investigate the studies of individual philosophers. Among these philosophers are Karl Marx, Friedrich Nietzsche, Michel Foucault, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty.
Most recently, Talia Welsh translated lectures of Merleau-Ponty from French to English. Northwestern University Press published her completed translation, Child Psychology & Pedagogy: The Sorbonne Lectures 1949-1952, in June of 2010. A writer as well as translator, Talia Welsh’s work has been published in journals such as Theory and Psychology, Radical Psychology, and Human Studies.
