Eliane Glaser

Glaser was educated at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, graduating from Oxford University with a First Class degree in English literature in 1995,[1] before gaining her PhD in early modern literature in 2000 at Birkbeck, University of London.

Glaser has written for the Independent, New Statesman,[2] and the London Review of Books, and is a contributor to The Guardian, where she has written articles on contemporary propaganda, fake authenticity, Astroturf politics, cyber-utopianism, and the ideology of natural childbirth.[3] Glaser is a regular contributor to, producer of, and sometime presenter for BBC Radio 3 and Radio 4: Glaser has appeared on BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking to discuss conspiracy, ideology and bureaucracy,[4] and wrote and presented an edition of BBC Radio 4's Four Thought in defence of authority.[5]

Glaser's work often focuses on contemporary culture and politics, and "exposes other people's polemical strategies, particularly when they are concealed or disavowed; presented as self-evident fact."[6] Glaser has written reports and articles for the New Economics Foundation[7] and the Institute for Public Policy Research.[8] She has served on the management committee of the Compass think tank. She was a Reader in creative writing at Bath Spa University and an associate research fellow at Birkbeck, University of London. In 2017 Glaser was a visiting fellow of St. Catherine's College, Oxford University. From 2020, Glaser is a Research Fellow at the School of Advanced Study, University of London.

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