Marisa Hayes

Marisa C. Hayes is an interdisciplinary scholar, educator, and curator. Her research sits at the intersection of visual studies and the performing arts, with concentrations in screendance, performance art films, alternative pedagogies, and the history of art in Paris. Since 2025, she has been a faculty member in the department of liberal studies and art history at Paris College of Art.

She has also taught at the Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris, The London Contemporary Dance School – University of the Arts London, l’Université de Bourgogne, and guest lectured at the Musée du Louvre, the National Gallery of London, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (Mardrid), Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, l’École nationale supérieure des beaux arts de Lyon, the American College of Athens, the Hanoi Cinémathèque, and Scuola Civica Paolo Grassi in Milan, among others.

Marisa has written for numerous international publications and authored the book Ju-on, a study of Takashi Shimizu’s eponymous film (2017, Liverpool University Press). She currently serves as editor of The International Journal of Screendance, curates the Festival International de Vidéo Danse de Bourgogne, as well as an annual screening at the Cinéma Utopia in Avignon; and co-hosts the film podcast “Afterimages”.