Ella Dorn is a freelance journalist and a project assistant at the Academy of Ideas. She has written about culture, film and politics for publications including the New Statesman, i-D, the Spectator, and the Guardian. She runs the Fairyland! Substack and sometimes contributes to Grambank, a database of syntactic structures. She graduated from SOAS in 2024 with a degree in Chinese and linguistics, and will compete as part of the SOAS team in the 2024/2025 series of University Challenge.

Ella is the author and illustrator of Hollywood These(u)s (November 2024), a fifty-point treatise on the life and death of the American studio system.

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