Morten Steen Hansen was a full-time lecturer during the 2016-2017 and 2017–2018 academic years.

Since receiving his PhD, Hansen has taught at Stanford University. He has also worked at art museums in Copenhagen and Baltimore. Hansen has held fellowships at the Villa I Tatti — the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies in Florence, Italy — the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (CASVA) at the National Gallery in Washington, DC, and the Center for Advanced Study in Princeton. He has published on such topics as imitation and irony in Italian Mannerism, cults around miraculous images, the pictorial construction of social identities involving representations for and of ethnic-religious minorities, word/image relationships, gender and sexuality, and Ludovico Ariosto and the pictorial arts.