T'ai Lin Smith holds a Ph.D. in Visual and Cultural Studies from the University of Rochester and B.A. in Visual Arts / Art History from Barnard College, Columbia University. She has been a full-time faculty member in the department of Art History, Theory & Criticism since 2006, and she has served as departmental chair since 2010. At MICA, she has taught undergraduate and graduate courses on twentieth- and twenty-first-century European and American art and design history. Her articles and reviews on modern textile design, media, the issue of craft, and contemporary art have been published in various periodicals, including Grey Room, Art Journal, Journal of Modern Craft, and Texte zur Kunst, and in catalogues for the Museum of Modern Art, New York. She is currently completing a book manuscript, entitled Writing On Weaving: Bauhaus Theory for a Medium-Specific Craft, which considers theoretical writings by weavers, artists, and designers at and after the Bauhaus school in Germany. From 2004 to 2008, she was Managing Editor of Grey Room, published by The MIT Press.