Jump to content

Eliane Glaser

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Eliane Glaser is an English writer, lecturer, radio producer and broadcaster.

Early life and media career

[edit]

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]

Academic work

[edit]

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.

Books

[edit]
Year Title Publisher ISBN
2007 Judaism without Jews: Philosemitism and Christian Polemic in Early Modern England Palgrave Macmillan 978-0230507746
2012 Get Real: How to Tell it Like it is in a World of Illusions Fourth Estate 978-0007416820
2018 Anti-Politics: On the Demonization of Ideology Repeater Books 978-1912248117
2020 Elitism: A Progressive Defence Biteback Publishing 9781785906077
2021 Motherhood: A Manifesto Fourth Estate 978-0008311889

References

[edit]
  1. ^ "Eliane Glaser | Writer".
  2. ^ "In defence of the metropolitan elite". 20 October 2016.
  3. ^ "Contributor profile: Eliane Glaser". The Guardian. Retrieved 24 June 2016.
  4. ^ "BBC Radio 3 - Free Thinking, the Joy of Bureaucracy".
  5. ^ "BBC Radio 4 - Four Thought, A Progressive Case for Authority".
  6. ^ "Eliane Glaser | Writer".
  7. ^ http://b.3cdn.net/nefoundation/9fab479e9cfd01156f_9fm6b383c.pdf [bare URL PDF]
  8. ^ "Post-politics and the future of the left". 3 July 2015.
[edit]