 In 1980 she became a professor at Harvard University, a position she held until 1981.The following year, in 1982, she became a Mellon Fellow and an Assistant Professor at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, where she became an Associate Professor in 1986, and the Chairman of the Art Department from 1989-2003.She became a full professor at Duke in 1991, and held that position until 1993.