Birkbeck, University of London

Hatty Nestor is a writer and academic and is presently completing an AHRC-funded Ph.D. about Ana Mendieta at Birkbeck, University of London. Her writing has been supported by the Arts Council and appears in Frieze, Art in America, The White Review, Gender Forum, and many other publications. Her research interests include feminist archiving, trauma, sexual violence, affect theory, and interdisciplinary writing. Her first book, Ethical Portraits, is forthcoming from Zero Books (2021), which explores gendered representation within the US criminal justice system, on subjects such as Chelsea Manning and Forensic e-fits.