Catherine Roach

Catherine Roach is an Assistant Professor of Art History at Virginia Commonwealth University. She holds a B.A. from Yale University and a Ph.D. in art history from Columbia University. Her primary research interests are eighteenth- and nineteenth-century art, especially British painting, and the history of museums and display. In 2010, she curated Seeing Double: Portraits, Copies and Exhibitions in 1820s London at the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven. Her first book, Pictures-within-Pictures in Nineteenth-Century Britain, an Ashgate book published by Routledge, was published in 2016. She is currently at work on her second book, a history of the groundbreaking nineteenth-century exhibition society, the British Institution.