Erika Balsom has taught undergraduate and/or graduate courses on the following topics:

• Documentary in the 21st Century
• The Moving Image in Art
• History of Film Theory
• Film Theory, 1916–1960
• Digital Cinema
• Issues in Contemporary Art
• Originals and Copies
• Cinema and Spectatorship
• The Essay Film
• Cinema and Portraiture
• Temporalities of the Moving Image