Associate Professor of Philosophy
Undergraduate Director
Ph.D. Stony Brook University

Office: AA3103
Telephone: (709) 864-8341
Email: shoff@mun.ca

Areas of Specialization:

• Phenomenology
• Hegel
• Feminism
• Political Philosophy
• Continental Philosophy

Shannon Hoff is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Memorial University. She is author of the forthcoming How to Read Hegel Now (University of Chicago Press, 2026) and of The Laws of the Spirit: A Hegelian Theory of Justice (SUNY Press, 2014). She writes on issues in political philosophy and feminism, particularly in interaction with figures such as Hegel and Merleau-Ponty. She teaches courses in phenomenology, feminism, aesthetics, political and moral philosophy, and ancient and 19^th-century philosophy. Past President of the Canadian Society for Continental Philosophy, she is also an active member of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, the Hegel Society of America, and the International Merleau-Ponty Circle, and she writes music in her spare time.