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 Aesthetics. She publishes widely on Simone de Beauvoir, French Existentialism, and Hegelian philosophy. She is 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) and is currently completing her manuscript on Entropic Philosophy.

She regularly teaches Phenomenology and Existentialism, 19th-Century European Philosophy, Philosophical Issues in Feminism, Philosophy through Literature, Senior Capstone, Honors Ancient and Modern Legacies, and Ethics and Values.

Education

Ph D, Villanova University, 2002

Major: Philosophy

MA, Villanova University, 1998

Major: Philosophy

BA, Goucher College, 1996

Major: Philosophy

Teaching

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 , The Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, "Useless Mouths or Useful Labor? Simone de Beauvoir and Jessica Bruder on the Working Elderly", Texas A&M University, College Station. (October, 2022)
Mussett, Shannon , The Association for Philosophy and Literature, "The Child as Project_ A Beauvoirian Reading of Klara and the Sun", The Fairmont Banff Springs. (May, 2022)
Mussett, Shannon , Indiana Philosophy Society Workshop, "Entropic Themes in the History of Philosophy", Wabash College, Crawfordsville. (March, 2022)
Mussett, Shannon , The Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, "Leveling Modernity_ Entropy in Freud and Lévi-Strauss", online. (September, 2021)
Mussett, Shannon , Collegium Phaenomenologicum, "Cheating Entropy_ Simone de Beauvoir, Critical Phenomenology, and Old Age", Città di Castello. (July, 2019)
Mussett, Shannon , The Pacific Association in the Continental Tradition, "Entropism and Art in the West", Yosemite National Park. (October, 2018)

Scholarly/Creative Works

Mussett, Shannon , (2022) "Entropic Philosophy_ Chaos, Breakdown, and Creation" . London: Roman & Littlefield International.
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.
Mussett, Shannon , Hayes, Josh , Kuperus, Gerard , Treanor, Brian , (2020) "Robert Smithson, Entropic Art, and the West in Philosophy in the American West_ A Geography of Thought" . New York: Routledge.
Mussett, Shannon , (2020) "Time, Money, and Race_ Simone de Beauvoir on American Abstraction" (Issue: 2, vol. 28). Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy - Revue de la philosophie française et de langue française.
Mussett, Shannon , Weiss, Gail , Salamon, Gayle , Murphy, Ann , (2019) "Ethical Freedom, in 50 Concepts for a Critical Phenomenology" . Evanston: Northwestern University Press .

Awards

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

Outstanding Faculty Award

College of Humanities and Social Sciences