CHRISTIANA SPENS

Christiana Spens is the author of several books including The Colony (forthcoming from Salt, 2026), The Fear (Repeater, 2023) Shooting Hipsters: Rethinking Dissent in the Age of PR (Repeater, 2016), and The Portrayal and Punishment of Terrorists in Western Media: Playing the Villain (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019). She also writes regularly for publications such as The New Statesman, The Irish Times, Glamour, Stylist, Literary Hub, The London Magazine, Prospect and Studio International on culture, psychology and politics, and sometimes works as an illustrator for books by Granta, NYRB, and other publishers. Her academic background is in philosophy, psychology and politics; she read Philosophy at Cambridge before a Masters in Terrorism Studies at the University of St. Andrews, where she then wrote her PhD thesis on terrorism, scapegoating rituals and moral panics.

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