Amanda Montell

About the author

Born in 1992, Amanda Montell is an American author and linguist whose work sits at the intersection of language, culture, and psychology. She has written three books: Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language (2019), which reclaims gendered language; Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism (2021), an examination of how rhetoric fuels extreme groups; and The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality (2024), a study of cognitive bias in contemporary life.