Dr Hatty Nestor

Dr. Hatty Nestor is a writer and scholar whose interdisciplinary work spans art, ethics, gender, and representation. Her research and teaching centre on marginalised voices, archives, and memorialisation. Her forthcoming book examines the legacy of Cuban-American artist Ana Mendieta (Bloomsbury, 2027).

Her debut book, Ethical Portraits: In Search of Representational Justice (Zero Books, 2021), explores representational practices in the US criminal justice system—from courtroom sketches to the incarceration of Chelsea Manning—through interviews and creative nonfiction. It was supported by Arts Council England. She also authored The Aching Poem (Boise State Press, 2021), a pamphlet on chronic illness and the body.

Hatty's writing has appeared in Granta, The Times Literary Supplement, Tribune, The White Review, and others. She has contributed texts and interviews to exhibitions for institutions including the Royal College of Art, and has held academic roles at Birkbeck, Glasgow School of Art, the Sandberg Instituut, and Reading. She was a visiting fellow at the Smithsonian Institution and MACBA, and a lead researcher on the AHRC-funded Feminist Queer Archives and Animating Archives projects at Goldsmiths.

She has led writing workshops at cultural institutions including the ICA, and held residencies at CCA Glasgow, Cove Park, Jerwood Arts, and others.