From 2002 to 2021 I taught a range of studio and non-studio critical theory courses for the Department of Art at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis/St. Paul (UMN). I accepted the full-time tenure-track position in 2002, received tenure as Associate Professor in 2007, and became Full Professor in 2013. In 2008/09 I was on leave from UMN visiting Stanford University, California, as an Arts Practitioner/Writer Fellow at Stanford Humanities Center, and upon my return to UMN served as Director of Graduate Study from 2009 to 2011. I was the Beverly and Richard Fink Endowed Professor of Liberal Arts from 2014 to 2018.

When I first arrived at UMN I taught in the Photography area before moving to Interdisciplinary Art and Social Practice (IASP). I taught freshmen seminars through graduate-level classes as well as cross-listing a course with the Philosophy Department. Taking an innovative approach to arts education that blurred traditional distinctions between media and disciplines, I developed and added a number of new courses to the curriculum, focusing on art and language, image and text, conceptual art, process art, social and ethical issues, and site-specific, interventionist, and performative practices. The most recent addition being the experiential and integrative Art and Yoga.

Prior to joining UMN, I taught philosophy at Bucknell University, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and Washington University in St. Louis.