A longtime contributor and editor to Artforum who later co-founded the journal October, she also taught for many years at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University.
[2] She initially planned to stay for only six months, but the emergence of McCarthyism in the United States made her reluctant to return, and she ultimately lived in France for over a decade.
[3] Together with Jay Leyda, she established the Department of Cinema Studies at New York University, where she taught numerous courses, supervised doctoral dissertations, and developed programs until retiring in 2004.
[3] October was formed as a politically charged journal that introduced American readers to the ideas of French post-structuralism, made popular by Michel Foucault and Roland Barthes.
[5] Krauss and Michelson remained on the journal's editorial board, along with Yve-Alain Bois, Hal Foster, Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, Denis Hollier, David Joselit, Carrie Lambert-Beatty, Mignon Nixon, and Malcolm Turvey.
[7] The volume includes the first critical essay on Marcel Duchamp's film Anemic Cinema, the first investigation into Joseph Cornell's filmic practices, and the first major exploration of work by Michael Snow.