Foster taught a broad variety of courses that reflect her diverse interests: Experimental Filmmakers, Queer theory and LGBTQ+ film, Apoco-tainment, Eco-Horror and Environmentalism in TV and Film, Italian Postwar Cinema, Challenging, Difficult and Disruptive Films, Spectators as co-authors, Women Filmmakers in Film History, the films of
Luis Buñuel,
Chantal Akerman,
Lucrecia Martel, and
Kelly Reichardt, Gender and Film Censorship, Feminist and Marxist Approaches to Film, "Woman's Pictures" and Melodrama, Female Spectatorship, Queer Spectatorship, Race & Post/colonialism in Film, Social Class and Social Mobility in Film, Moms, Maids, & Sex Workers – Redefining Female Heroes in Film, Masculinity in Media, Ozu, Bresson and Dreyer, Japanese and Asian Cinema, Latin American cinema, French Film Directors, Atomic anti-communist hysteria films, screenwriting, and many other courses. She has written about film-related topics such as
eco-feminism,
avant garde film,
cultural studies,
feminist and
Marxist critical theory, and women directors. Foster has made films including the 1991 documentary
Women Who Made the Movies as well as the 1994 feature film
Squatters, and more recently, a number of short films including the
Gaia Triptych (2016) a series of short eco-horror and eco-feminist experimental films including
Waste, Not, and
Want Not. Foster's other short films include such
Earth TV, Echo and Narcissus, Tenderness, Eros and Psyche, Pre-Raphaelite Falls, The Passenger, Pop. 1280 For Jim Thompson, Mirror, Amphitrite, and many other titles. Foster publishes in many journals such as
Choice,
Senses of Cinema,
Film International, and
Quarterly Review of Film and Video. She writes and publishes extensively on
film studies and
cultural studies, along with her filmmaking and
installation art projects. Foster and
Wheeler Winston Dixon are coauthors of the popular film history textbook,
A Short History of Film. They are Series Editors of "Quick Takes: Movies and Popular Culture," a series of books offering fresh perspectives on film and popular culture published by Rutgers University Press; and "New Perspectives on World Cinema Series" a collection of monographs on global studies in international cinema published by Anthem in the UK. Her films have been screened at
Outfest LA,
Bi+ Arts Festival,
The Nederlands Filmmuseum, Rice Museum,
Collective for Living Cinema, Swedish Cinemateket,
National Museum of Women in the Arts, DC,
International Film Festival of Kerala, India,
Films de Femmes, Créteil, Women's Film Festival of Madrid, Kyobo Center, Korea,
Santa Barbara Museum of Art,
Metropolitan Museum of Art,
Université Laval, Quebec, Forum Yokohama,
Anthology Film Archives, Amos Eno Gallery, NY, SLA 307 Art Space, NY,
Maryland Institute College of Art,
NETV, Studio 44 Stockholm, X-12 Festival, UK, and other museums and festivals around the world. In March and April 2018, the BWA Contemporary Art Gallery in Katowice, Poland, presented a month long retrospective of Foster's new video work. In May 2018, she presented a screening of her videos, along with the work of Bill Domonkos and Wheeler Winston Dixon at The Museum of Human Achievement in Austin, Texas. In the summer of 2018, she had a one woman show at Filmhuis Cavia in Amsterdam, and her film
Self Portrait [Détournement] was screened as part of NewFilmmakers at Anthology Film Archives on September 11, 2018. Her one woman show,
Queer Experimental Films was screened July/August 2018 on Salto Netherlands International TV, and she had a one woman show at The Museum of The Future in Berlin, Germany on October 28, 2017. In October 2025, the fourth edition of her book
A Short History of Film, co-written with
Wheeler Winston Dixon, was published by
Rutgers University Press. ==Personal life==