Tal Correm is a Clinical Assistant Professor in Liberal Studies at New York University. Her research focuses on the intersection of ethics and political theory, specifically with relation to political violence, transitional justice, and democratic theory. Her book project studies the critique of violence in the work of Hannah Arendt, Frantz Fanon, and M. K. Gandhi, and their contribution to participatory democratic theory. Other areas of interest and teaching include feminist theory, decolonial theory, cross-cultural philosophy, existentialism and phenomenology, aesthetics, and the history of philosophy. She received her Ph.D. in Philosophy from Temple University and holds an M.A. in philosophy and a B.A. in philosophy and the arts from Tel Aviv University. Before joining NYU, Dr. Correm was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Allegheny College and taught in the Intellectual Heritage Program at Temple University.
Tal Correm
Clinical Assistant Professor
Ph.D. – Temple University
M.A. – Tel Aviv University
B.A. – Tel Aviv University
Ethics; Social and Political Philosophy; Cross-cultural Philosophy; Transitional Justice; Political Theory
| 2022 | Liberal Studies Summer Scholarship Award, New York University |
| 2021 | Arts and Science Teaching Innovation Award, New York University |
| 2020 | Liberal Studies Works in Progress Grant, New York University |
| 2019 | Liberal Studies Works in Progress Grant, New York University |
| 2017 | Philosophy in an Inclusive Key, American Philosophical Association |
| 2017 | Diversity Innovation Fund, Allegheny College |
| 2016 | Academic Support Committee Grant, Allegheny College |
“The Grey Zones of Violence in Political Resistance,” Theoria: A Journal of Social and Political Theory 165, vol. 67, no. 4 (December 2020): 10-36.
"Hannah Arendt on National Liberation, Violence, and Federalism.” In Hannah Arendt on Freedom, Liberation, and Revolution, edited by Kei Hiruta, 139-169. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
“Reflexive Self-Awareness and Subjectivity.” In Problems of the Self: Consciousness, Subjectivity and the Other, edited by Manidipa Sen, 120-138. Delhi, India: Aakar Books, 2019.
“Ethics beyond Struggle: Fanon, Gandhi, and Arendt on Violence, Politics, and Humanism,” Listening: Journal of Communication Ethics, Religion, and Culture 50, no. 1, (Winter 2015): 21-37.
“Constellations of the Flesh: The Embodied Self in The Straight Story and The Elephant Man.” In The Philosophy of David Lynch, edited by William J. Devlin and Shai Biderman, 127-142. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2011. Review of Frantz Fanon: Toward a Revolutionary Humanism, by Christopher J. Lee. National Political Science Review 20, no.1 (2019): 213-215.
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Tal Correm
Clinical Assistant Professor tal.correm@nyu.edu 726 Broadway, 6th FloorRoom 634