Eliane Glaser is an English writer, lecturer, radio producer and broadcaster. Eliane-glaser-1000px

Early life and media career

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

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. Glaser has written for the '' Independent'', '' New Statesman'', and the ''

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'', and is a contributor to '' The Guardian'', where she has written articles on contemporary

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, fake authenticity, Astroturf politics, cyber-utopianism, and the ideology of natural childbirth. Glaser is a regular contributor to, producer of, and sometime presenter for

BBC Radio 3 BBC Radio 3 is a British national radio station owned and operated by the BBC. It replaced the BBC Third Programme in 1967 and broadcasts classical music and opera, with jazz, world music, Radio drama, drama, High culture, culture and the arts ...

and Radio 4: Glaser has appeared on BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking to discuss conspiracy, ideology and bureaucracy, and wrote and presented an edition of BBC Radio 4's Four Thought in defence of authority.

Academic work

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." Glaser has written reports and articles for the New Economics Foundation and the Institute for Public Policy Research. 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

References

External links

elianeglaser.org
Living people 21st-century English women writers Alumni of St Edmund Hall, Oxford Alumni of Birkbeck, University of London BBC Radio 3 presenters BBC Radio 4 presenters The Guardian journalists Lecturers Year of birth missing (living people) {{UK-writer-stub