Col. Catharine Ingersoll began teaching at VMI in 2015. She received her Ph.D. and M.A. degrees in Art History from the University of Texas at Austin, and earned a B.A. in Art and a B.A. in Music from Washington College in Maryland. Prior to her work at VMI, she held an Albrecht Dürer Fellowship at the Germanisches National Museum in Nuremberg, Germany.

Col. Ingersoll’s research focuses on the art of southern Germany during the late medieval and Early Modern periods, particularly in terms of the interdisciplinary intersections among patronage, politics, religion, and visual and material culture in the duchy of Bavaria. She has published numerous articles and book reviews; with Alisa McCusker and Jessica Weiss, she edited a volume of essays, Imagery and Ingenuity in Early Modern Europe: Essays in Honor of Jeffrey Chipps Smith (Brepols, 2018). Col. Ingersoll routinely presents her research at conferences in North America and in Europe.

In addition to offering a regular rotation of art history and visual culture courses (such as The Language of Art and History of Art I and II), Col. Ingersoll is frequently sought out by cadets as an advisor to independent studies, Capstones, and Honors projects. She also spearheads the Art History and Visual Culture minor/concentration, maintains the @vmi_ahvc Instagram account, and is the faculty advisor to the Cadet Art Group.

Professor
English, Rhetoric, and Humanistic Studies