Shannon Mussett

Faculty Member

Dr. Shannon Mussett

Biography

Shannon Mussett is Professor of Philosophy at Utah Valley University. She specializes in French Existentialism, German Idealism, Feminist Theory, and Philosophy and Literature. She publishes widely on Simone de Beauvoir, French Existentialism, and Hegelian philosophy. She is author of Entropic Philosophy: Chaos, Breakdown, and Creation, Philosophical Projections Series (London: Roman & Littlefield International, 2022). She is also co-editor of Beauvoir and the History of Philosophy from Plato to Butler (SUNY Press, 2012) and The Contradictions of Freedom: Philosophical Essays on Simone de Beauvoir's Les Mandarins (SUNY Press, 2006). She is currently working on her second book on Entropy and Aging.

Dr. Mussett regularly teaches Phenomenology and Existentialism, 19th-Century European Philosophy, Philosophical Issues in Feminism, Philosophy through Literature, and Ethics and Values.

Education

PhD, Villanova University, 2002

Major: Philosophy

MA, Villanova University, 1998

Major: Philosophy

BA, Goucher College, 1996

Major: Philosophy

Teaching

PHIL 492R

Advanced Topics in Philosophy, Summer 2024

PHIL 2050

Ethics and Values IH, Summer 2024

PHIL 205H

Ethics and Values IH, Summer 2024

PHIL 290R

Independent Study, Summer 2024

PHIL 2050

Ethics and Values IH, Spring 2024

PHIL 2050

Ethics and Values IH, Spring 2024

PHIL 3820

Philosophy through Literature, Spring 2024

Presentations

Mussett, Shannon , History of Philosophy Society, "A Call to the Mind and the Spirit_ Hegel on the Beautiful in Nature and Art", Utah Valley University, Salt Lake City. (March, 2025)
Mussett, Shannon , Marquette Faculty Colloquium , "The Genocidal March of Hegelian Spirit", Marquette University Philosophy and the Marquette Center for Peacemaking, Milwaukee. (February, 2025)
Mussett, Shannon , Fourth Global Existential Summit, "Interview with Natalie Fraser". (January, 2025)
Mussett, Shannon , Radical Philosophy Society Annual Meeting, "Commentary on Frieda Afary’s, Socialist Feminism_ A New Approach (Pluto Press, 2022)", Salt Lake City. ()
Mussett, Shannon , Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, "Commentary on Michael J. Monahan’s, Creolizing Practices of Freedom_ Recognition and Dissonance ", Rochester. (September, 2024)
Mussett, Shannon , History of Philosophy Society, "America is the Future- The Genocidal March of Hegelian Spirit", Seattle. (April, 2024)

Scholarly/Creative Works

Mussett, Shannon , (2025) "Review of Drew M. Dalton_ The Matter of Evil_ From Speculative Realism to Ethical Pessimism, Evanston_ Northwestern University Press, 2024. " . Continental Philosophy Review. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11007-025-09672-8
Mussett, Shannon , (2024) "Human Aging and Entropy " (Issue: 2, vol. 4). Technophany: A Journal for Philosophy and Technology.
Mussett, Shannon , (2024) "Useless Mouths or Useful Labour? Applying Simone de Beauvoir’s Philosophy of Old Age to Gray Labour Force Exploitation" (Issue: 2024).
Mussett, Shannon , (2022) "Entropic Philosophy- Chaos, Breakdown, and Creation (Rowman and Littlefield International) 2022" .
Mussett, Shannon , Coe, Cynthia , (2021) "Expressions of Negativity_ Simone de Beauvoir’s Response to Hegelian Freedom in The Palgrave Handbook of German Idealism and Phenomenology" . London: Palgrave Macmillan .
Mussett, Shannon , Eshleman, Matthew C., Mui, Constance , (2020) "Nature as Threat and Escape in the Philosophies of Sartre and Beauvoir" . New York_ Routledge: The Sartrean Mind.

Awards

Dean’s Teaching Award

College of Humanities and Social Sciences - March, 2025

Professor of the Year

Utah Valley University Honors Program

Board of Trustees Award of Excellence

Utah Valley University Board of Trustees

Honors Faculty Recognition Award

Utah Valley University Honors Program

Faculty Showcase for Teaching Excellence

UVU Office of Teaching and Learning

Marble House Project Artist Residency

Marble House Project