Manon Andre de St. Amant

Hello! My name is Manon (they/she). I'm a philosophy PhD candidate at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. I study ethics, feminist philosophy, and moral psychology. Specifically, I'm interested in how oppression affects our moral agency. My most recent project involves understanding sexual oppression as a distinct form of oppression; I argue that resisting sexual oppression requires acts of resistance that are particularly calibrated to the harms done by this sort of oppression. 

I am also interested in trans and nonbinary philosophy. The effects of gendered language use and how we ought to approach gender and sex philosophically is also the focus of several of my projects. 

I grew up in Southern California, and got my B.S. in psychology and B.A. in philosophy at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. 

For a recent version of my CV, click here. 

To contact me, email me at: andre972 (at) umn (dot) edu

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A note on my name:

My first name is "Manon" pronounced roughly "ma-NOH". It's French, so the last consonant is more of a suggestion than a requirement. 

My full last name has four parts, and is "Andre de St Amant". 

For ease, I publish primarily under the last name "St Amant", but either format serves.

"St Amant" is also French, and roughly pronounced "Sant uh-MAW". 

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A note on my pronouns: 

I'm nonbinary. I primarily use they/them pronouns, and they are my preference. I generally am uncomfortable with language that assigns me a gendered "box." However, over the course of many years, I've become less and less concerned about which pronouns others choose to use to describe me - and they typically default to she/her. For now, either they/them or she/her suffices, though I reserve the right to change my mind. 

To use unnecessarily self-important ethical terminology, she/her pronouns are permissible; they/them are supererogatory.