Autor: Nasheli Jiménez del Val

Nasheli Jiménez del Val is Researcher and Lecturer in Visual Studies at Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), where she is working on the research project „Violent Death: Images of Intimidation, Sensationalism, and Denunciation in Mexico (1994-2012)“. She has previously been Beatriu de Pinós-Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow within the Art, Globalization, Interculturality research group at the University of Barcelona, Postdoctoral Fellow at Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas, UNAM, and Lecturer in Spanish and Latin American Studies at the University of Stirling, UK. She received her PhD in Cultural Studies from Cardiff University, UK, and her MA and undergraduate degrees from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Her research currently centres on the relationship between power and images in a Mexican context.