Dana Stevens (critic)
| Dana Stevens | |
|---|---|
| Born | June 30, 1966 |
| Other names | Liz Penn |
| Education | University of California, Berkeley |
| Occupation | Movie critic at Slate (magazine) |
| Notable credit(s) | Slate magazine, Culture Gabfest |
Dana Shawn Stevens (born June 30, 1966) is a movie critic at Slate magazine. She is also a regular on the magazine's weekly cultural podcast the Culture Gabfest.
Life and career
Stevens grew up in Scarsdale, New York[1] and San Antonio, Texas.[2][3] She attained a doctorate in comparative literature from UC Berkeley in 2001 with a dissertation on Fernando Pessoa: A Local Habitation and a Name: Heteronymy and Nationalism in the works of Fernando Pessoa. She joined Slate in mid-2003, writing the magazine's Surfergirl column on television and pop-culture.[4] Before joining Slate she wrote under the pseudonym "Liz Penn" on her own (now defunct) website/blog called the High Sign.[1] She has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post Book World, Bookforum, and The Atlantic[4] and has appeared on several occasions on Charlie Rose and The Brian Lehrer Show. She is a regular on Slate's Culture Gabfest.[5]
Stevens has described herself as "an atheist raised in culturally Christian milieu".[6] She lives in Brooklyn, New York.[4]
As of 2010, the movie review aggregation website Metacritic weighted reviews by Stevens with their second-lowest weight.[7]
References
- 1 2 "Liz Penn, Writer/TV Critic". Gothamist. Retrieved June 20, 2011.
- ↑ "Extract, film review podcast @3:00min". Spoiler Special Podcast. Slate.com. September 3, 2009. Retrieved 29 March 2012.
- ↑ Stevens, Dana (20 Mar 2012). "ladiesofboston @thehighsign is this u Dana from Boston?". Twitter.com. @thehighsign. Retrieved 28 March 2012.
ladiesofboston: @thehighsign is this u Dana from Boston? Dana Stevens:@ladiesofboston Nope, wrong Dana. I'm from San Antonio, Texas.
- 1 2 3 "Who We Are". Slate (magazine). Archived from the original on June 20, 2011. Retrieved June 20, 2011.
- ↑ "Dana Stevens". Retrieved 2015-01-25.
- ↑ Stevens, Dana (September 18, 2007). "Films of Atonement". Jewcy. Retrieved June 21, 2011.
- ↑ "META-METACRITIC". Retrieved 2015-07-29.
