Dr Hatty Nestor

My research and writing span art, ethics, gender, and archives. My 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. I also authored The Aching Poem (Boise State Press, 2021), a pamphlet about chronic illness. My forthcoming book examines the legacy of Cuban-American artist Ana Mendieta (Bloomsbury, 2027).

My writing has appeared in Granta, The Times Literary Supplement, Tribune, The White Review, and others. I have contributed texts and interviews to exhibitions for institutions including the Royal College of Art, and have held academic roles at Birkbeck University of London, the Glasgow School of Art, the Sandberg Instituut, and Reading. I have been a visiting fellow at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC, the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art, and an associate fellow on the Wellcome Trust-funded research project  Sexual Harms and Medical Encounters (SHaME). I was also a lead researcher on the AHRC-funded Feminist Queer Archives and Animating Archives projects at Goldsmiths College.