Ailsa

Ailsa Peate is Lecturer Hispanic and Museum Studies at the University of Westminster. She completed her PhD on the representation of sex, bodies, and violence in contemporary Mexican and Cuban detective fiction. Her previous positions include that of Research Associate on the AHRC-funded project Memory, Victims and Representation of the Colombian Conflict at the University of Liverpool. Her research currently focuses on state terrorism in Mexico, photographic representations of north western Mexico’s narcoculture, and visibilising experiences of women victims of sexual violence through participatory art and gender ethics in cultural institutions in Colombia and Mexico. Her co-edited volume, Latin American Crime Scenes (2019), is available from Peter Lang, and her monograph, Subverting Sex, Genre and Genre in Cuban and Mexican Detective Fiction is due for publication with Liverpool University Press in 2024.