Marie-Aude Baronian is an Associate Professor in Film and Visual Culture and a member of ASCA (Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis).

She has extensively lectured and published on film, memory, traumatic history, and archive, on fashion and textile, on material objects and material culture, on ethics and aesthetics, on film-philosophy, on French thought (Derrida, Levinas), and on Armenian diasporic cinema and visual culture. She has authored many articles on a diversity of media artists, filmmakers, philosophers, and fashion designers. Her work and research interests are rather interdisciplinary and include, next to film studies and philosophy, a wide range of other disciplines such as memory studies, fashion studies, environmental humanities, Armenian studies, or material culture. Her most recent monographs include The Cinematic Life of Material Objects (Meson Press, forthcoming); Mémoire et Image: Regards sur la Catastrophe arménienne (L’Age d’Homme, 2013. English translation in preparation), and Screening Memory: The Prosthetic Images of Atom Egoyan (Editions Académie Royale Belgique, 2017). She currently works (with Dr. M. Pifer) on a monograph on the work of Armenian-Georgian-Ukrainian filmmaker and media artist Sergei Parajanov.

She has also been a regular guest professor and fellow at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, 2014, 2015, and 2019) and at the Goethe University of Frankfurt (2017 and 2018), and at the University Ca’ Foscari, Venezia (2022).

She has recently co-founded the academic research center and summer school on “Environmental Arts and Humanities” in Yerevan (Armenia), that was in inaugurated mid-July 2024.