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Revision as of 14:25, 21 November 2011
Dana Stevens | |
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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] 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.[2] Before joining Slate she wrote under the pseudonym "Liz Penn" on her own (now defunct) web website/blog called the High Sign.[1] She has written for the New York Times, the Washington Post Book World, Bookforum, and the Atlantic[2] and has appeared on several occasions on Charlie Rose and The Brian Lehrer Show.
Stevens has described herself as "an atheist raised in culturally Christian milieu". [3] She lives in Brooklyn, New York.[2]
References
- ^ a b "Liz Penn, Writer/TV Critic". Gothamist. Retrieved June 20, 2011.
- ^ a b c "Who We Are". Slate (magazine). Archived from the original on June 20, 2011. Retrieved June 20, 2011.
- ^ Stevens, Dana (September 18, 2007). "Films of Atonement". Jewcy. Retrieved June 21, 2011.