Mary Pinard teaches courses in foundation humanities, literature, and poetry. She has served in a range of administrative positions, including Director of the Undergraduate Rhetoric Program, Coordinator of the Creativity Stream in the MBA Program, Writing Center Director, and she is currently Chair of the Arts and Humanities Division.

Professor Pinard's poems have appeared in a variety of literary journals—including The Iowa Review, Harvard Review, Prairie Schooner, and The Georgia Review—and she has been the recipient of several national awards for her poetry. Her essays on poets and poetics have been published in critical anthologies and scholarly journals.