Her teaching covers public art, art criticism, theories of modernism and postmodernism, and other topics related to 20th century and contemporary art. She will be teaching a new course in the fall about P.3 Prospect New Orleans. Her research has focused on art in the public sphere. She received her PhD from the University of Chicago with the dissertation, “From Green Cube to Site: Site-Specific Practices at American Sculpture Parks and Gardens, 1965-1987.” She has held fellowships in the Garden and Landscape Studies program at Dumbarton Oaks and at the Terra Foundation for American Art in Giverny, France. Her scholarship has been published in the journals Public Art Dialogue, Passepartout: Skrifter for Kunsthistorie, Studies in the History of Gardens and Designed Landscapes, and New Orleans Art Review.