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