Dr Rachel Gregory Fox

BA, MA, PhD (Lancaster University)

Rachel joined the School of English as a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in 2021. Previously, she was Lecturer in World Literature at Queen Mary, University of London. Her research interests broadly encompass postcolonial studies, with particular focuses on the politics and ethics of representation, migration and the UK’s Hostile Environment, Middle Eastern literature, and postcolonial feminism(s). She has co-edited a book with Ahmad Qabaha, Post-Millennial Palestine: Literature, Memory, Resistance. Her monograph, (Re)Framing Women in Post-Millennial Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iran: Remediated Witnessing in Literary, Visual, and Digital Media will be published with Routledge in March 2022.

Rachel’s current research project focuses on migration, the UK’s Hostile Environment, and the ethics of storytelling. The project seeks to understand how refugees and migrants have been represented in public discourse over the past decade, and to consider strategies for listening to, and comprehending, stories by refugees and migrants self-reflexively—not just empathetically, but also by taking accountability.

Postcolonial Studies; the Politics and Ethics of Representation; Migration; the UK’s Hostile Environment; Middle Eastern Literature; and Postcolonial Feminism(s).

Rachel is currently teaching the MA module Colonial and Postcolonial Discourses. She has previously taught on a range of topics, which include world literature, Middle Eastern literature, poetry, and literary London.  

  - Member of the executive board for the Postcolonial Studies Association, as PG/ECR Representative. 

- Associate Editor for Contemporary Women’s Writing.