She serves as Elizabeth Cary Agassiz Professor of the Humanities and Johnson-Kulukunkdis Family Faculty Director of the Arts at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University.
Her research and teaching focuses on American art from the colonial period to the present.
[1] Roberts attended Stanford University as an undergraduate, where she initially studied human biology before ultimately double-majoring in English and art history, though she did not begin the latter until her senior year.
[1] Roberts’s first book, Mirror-Travels, explored the work of Robert Smithson, who created the Spiral Jetty in the Great Salt Lake, Utah.
In 2021, Roberts delivered the seventieth A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts.