Francis Xavier University. In Hurst's own words, her research interests lie in the relationships between embodiment, (visual) culture, and power, from the perspectives of psychoanalysis and decolonial thought. She is the author of Surface Imaginations: Cosmetic Surgery, Photography, and Skin (MQUP, 2015) and co-editor of Skin, Culture and Psychoanalysis (Palgrave, 2013).