He is the author of Reading Wittgenstein: Robert Morris's Art-as-Philosophy. He co-edited, with David Craven, Dialectical Conversions: Donald Kuspit's Art Criticism. He was the 2012 Ansel Adams Fellow at the Center for Creative Photography where he studied Hans Namuth's archive, the subject of his next book. Simultaneously, he is editing the collected writings of David Craven. In the 1990s, Dr. Winkenweder completed master's degrees in English and Art History at UNM.