Passalacqua Hayman has written on a number of topics, but is noted for her reporting and critical analysis of daytime soap operas.
[1] Between 1995 and 2001, Passalacqua Hayman was an adjunct professor of journalism at New York University, and in 2001 she left writing full-time to earn a master's degree in education at NYU.
[1] She taught journalism at Marymount Manhattan College as an adjunct professor in the Communications Department from 2007 to 2014.
[1] From its inception through 2001, she wrote critical analysis for Soap Opera Weekly under the pseudonym Marlena De Lacroix.
[1] Her column "Critical Condition" has been called "insightful, outspoken and humorous" and has been noted to have "created a sensation in the soap industry.