Faculty Directory | Shannan Hayes

Shannan Hayes (she/they) is an interdisciplinary scholar of cultural studies, political-economics, and feminist political theory. She situates her work in a Marxist-Foucauldian feminist framework, as she investigates practices of social reproduction, social change, and subject formation in the context of late capitalism. Current research focuses on contemporary experiments in affirmative world-making that span the domains of art, activism, and collective sustenance.

Shannan joined the Stern School of Business as an Adjunct in 2021. She holds a current Visiting Assistant Professor joint position in Peace, Justice & Human Rights plus Writing at Haverford College. In addition to teaching "Commerce & Culture" at NYU, she has taught undergraduate courses at Haverford College, Duke University, and Stony Brook University in writing, cultural studies, critical theory, women’s and gender studies, film, and studio art since 2006.