Messud has taught creative writing at Amherst College, Kenyon College, University of Maryland, Yale University, in the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers in North Carolina, in the Graduate Writing program at Johns Hopkins University, and at Harvard University. Messud also taught at Sewanee: The University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee.
Messud has taught creative writing at various institutions, including Amherst College, Kenyon College, University of Maryland, Yale University, Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers in North Carolina, the Graduate Writing program at Johns Hopkins University, and Harvard University. Messud also taught at Sewanee: The University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee.