Christiana Spens is the author of The Portrayal and Punishment of Terrorists: Playing the Villain (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019) and Shooting Hipsters: Rethinking Dissent in the Age of PR (Repeater Books, 2016). She earned a PhD in International Relations from the University of St. Andrews and is a founding member of the collective Truth Tellers, based at Kings College London. She also writes regularly for publications such as The Irish Times, Studio International, Art Quarterly and Prospect on politics and culture.