Dr Rachel Gregory Fox

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PhD in English Literature; independent researcher; writing a book on the Hostile Environment; author of ‘(Re)framing Women’. I do editorial work! Learn more about my services at https://foxtales-editorial.com. She/Her 🩷💜💙

Shows a screenshot of episode 2, Midwinter Day, The Dark is Rising.
Snippet from BBC News: Mahmood will suggest that while some of her plans may seem immoderate, the alternative could be a further rise in support for Reform UK.
Laptop in background with blurred word document. In foreground, 3 books on the Windrush.
Autumn leaves in an array of red, yellow, brown, and green colours against a white backdrop.
Picture shows a book (Judith Butler’s and Gaytri Chakravorty Spivak’s Who Sings the Nation-State) sitting on top of handwritten notes.
Loraine Masiya Mponela gives a poetry reading.
Pictured is the back of my conference programme. A handwritten distillation of the themes, ideas, and thoughts shared over the last two days, presented as closing remarks at the end of today.
Zalfa Feghali and Gillian Roberts show a slide of their title-in-progress.
Ambreen Hai and Gaura Narayan answer questions from the audience. Zalfa Feghali chairs.
Matthew Whittle presents a slide nationalism and the role this plays in ecological and capitalist narratives around migration.
Sophie Fennelly presents a detailed and incisive close reading of (un)safe spaces in Caleb Azumah Nelson’s Small Worlds.
Keynote Leah Cowan presents. On the slide: Leah’s books, ‘Border Nation’ and ‘Why would feminists trust the police?’
Screen showing film title: ‘Encounter’.
Rachael Gilmour presents on the role of language and listening in asylum interviews and podcasts.
Nadia Kiwan presents a slide on UK-French migration legislation.
Agnes Woolley delivers her keynote. On the slide: docudrama posters (Small Axe, Hostile, and Snowflakes)
Loraine Masiya Mponela reads her poem in front of the lecture hall.
Lots of stacks of paper on the table, assembling conference programme. Not pictured: 2 paper cuts (with 30+ programmes still to go).
A table in a coffee shop. To the left, a cup of steaming tea. To the right, Vincent Delecroix’s Small Boat. Cover: blue, with a small dinghy in the centre.
Pink background showing audiobook ‘Love in Exile’ Shon Faye
Conference schedule for 23 June. Find full readable copy at: https://blogs.kent.ac.uk/hostileenvironments-hospitablepraxes/
Higher Education may be a pit of utter despair, but the blue sky and white blossoming tree on campus is pretty.
Picture show book, Anywhere But Here, sat on a white table. The book cover features an orange life jacket.
Copy of Conversations From Calais sitting on a table, with a yellow cup of black tea beside it. The book cover is black, with bold white font and a silhouetted sunrise.
Read details of CFP here: https://blogs.kent.ac.uk/hostileenvironments-hospitablepraxes/
Screenshot of audiobook: Orbital, by Samantha Harvey
Two books sitting on a blue blanket: Coco Mellors, Blue Sisters and Kaveh Akbar, Martyr!
Details of CFP, which can be found here: https://blogs.kent.ac.uk/hostileenvironments-hospitablepraxes/.
Screencap of Radio 4’s Free Thinking: Diaries and the day to day
Pile of research monographs on the subject of migration and the Hostile Environment.
The book, ‘breach’, sits on a white surface. The book cover shows a wire fence, half torn open, a horizon visible ahead.
Night Waking cover: a silhouette of a mother crouched in front of a child. A cloud filled dawn sky in the background.
Full details on poster available at https://blogs.kent.ac.uk/hostileenvironments-hospitablepraxes/#.
Cover for Minor Detail. Greyscale, with two images overlaid, a dried landscape, and a blurry picture of a face.
Picture shows printed draft of introduction on table, blue pen atop. A Caffè Nero mug of tea sits beside it.
Purple bowl filled with pear crumble, with a spoon beside.
Book cover for Hanan-al Cinema. Shows film stills: above, a picture of two women, both faces partially cut off, below, a man at a table, with his image layered over and over in slightly different poses.
Open book, cover facing up: Lucy Easthope’s When The Dust Settles
Book cover for Persuasion. Jane Austen’s name is written in large font, with a purple silhouette of a woman standing below.
Book cover for Hamnet. Blue cover with an ornate white ‘H’ emblazoned on the front.
Book cover for The Cultural Politics of Emotions. Colourful painting appears at the centre - mainly red, yellow, and green.
Moat around building, with a curved bridge.
Book cover of The English Patient. White border around a central picture of a man turned away.
Book cover for A Portable Paradise. A photograph of a group of Black men looking in the same direction (off camera).
Book cover for Home Fire. Red, orange, and black colour profile, with a silhouetted couple at the centre.
Book cover for Mornings in Jenin. Cover shows a young girl stood in a doorway, facing outwards.
Cover for Imperial Intimacies. A young girl stands in a garden.
Book cover for Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel. In the middle of the cover is a picture of a deer against a city backdrop.
Book cover for This is How You Lose the Time War. The cover shows a red bird and a blue bird.
Picture shows a bottle of Lucozade and a bag of malteaser reindeers.
Picture shows the book cover for Zoo City, by Lauren Beukes. The cover spells the letters for Zoo City using black illustrations of animals and city-scapes.
Picture shows me holding Ali Smith’s Gliff.
Picture shows Corinne Fowler’s books: Green Unpleasant Land and Our Island Stories
Picture shows laptop on a cafe table, with teapot, cuppa, and pastry beside it.
Picture of the front cover of Home is Not a Place.
Part 1 of CFP/poster for ‘Hostile Environments and Hospitable Praxes’. Find full details of CFP here: https://blogs.kent.ac.uk/hostileenvironments-hospitablepraxes/#