Prior to Fordham University, Maria Farland taught at Columbia, Wesleyan, and Johns Hopkins Universities. In 2008 she was awarded Fordham's university-wide prize for outstanding undergraduate teaching.
Since 2019 she has been teaching Fordham's Dissertation Seminar, a workshop for research practice, and the MA Capstone, a research seminar in the Masters program. The courses she offers include:
Disability in Literature and Culture
Critical Theory, undergraduate & PhD level
American Modernism in Literature & Film
Nineteenth Century American Poetry
Gender in American Literature
Rural America in Literature & Culture