Christiana Spens

Christiana Spens is a writer and academic.

Christiana Spens was born in Melbourne, Australia and grew up in Fife, Scotland.

[1] [2] She is the author of The Fear (Repeater Books,[3] 2023), The Portrayal and Punishment of Terrorists in Western Media (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019),[4] and Shooting Hipsters: Rethinking Dissent in the Age of PR (Repeater Books,[5] 2017).

Her academic work looks at terrorism, ritual, visuality and Neo-orientalism.

She has written for The New Statesman, The Irish Times, Byline Times, Glamour, Stylist, Prospect Magazine, Studio International and The Quietus on culture, psychology and politics.