Talia Welsh
Pronouns: she/her
Personal Website: https://ualberta.academia.edu/TaliaWelsh
Contact
Chair, Faculty of Arts - Womens & Gender Studies
- twelsh1@ualberta.ca
Overview
Area of Study / Keywords
Feminist Philosophy Phenomenology Developmental Psychology Critical Health Studies
About
Dr. Welsh research focuses on feminist analyses of parenting, pregnancy, and how bodies are normalized in health care. She also writes about the phenomenology and child psychology of Maurice Merleau-Ponty. Her books include the translation of Merleau-Ponty’s lectures in child psychology and pedagogy in the volume Child Psychology & Pedagogy: Maurice Merleau-Ponty at the Sorbonne (Northwestern University Press, 2010), The Child as Natural Phenomenologist: Primal and Primary Experience in Merleau-Ponty’s Psychology (Northwestern University Press, 2013), Feminist Existentialism, Biopolitics, and Critical Phenomenology in a Time of Bad Health (Routledge, 2022), and the co-edited volume Normality, Abnormality, and Pathology in Merleau-Ponty (SUNY Press, 2022). You can find more of her publications at:
https://ualberta.academia.edu/TaliaWelsh