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| Born | (1966-06-30)June 30, 1966 (age 58) |
| Other names | Liz Penn |
| Education | Vassar College (AB) University of California, Berkeley (PhD) |
| Occupation | Film critic |
| Notable credit(s) | Slate magazine,Culture Gabfest |
Dana Shawn Stevens (born June 30, 1966)[citation needed] is an American film critic who writes forSlate.[1] She is also a cohost of the magazine's weekly culturalpodcast, theCulture Gabfest.[2] She is the author of a 2022 book aboutBuster Keaton and the 20th century titledCamera Man: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of the Twentieth Century.[3][4]
Stevens grew up inScarsdale, New York;[5] andSan Antonio, Texas.[6][7] She graduated fromVassar College and attained adoctorate incomparative literature fromUC Berkeley in 2001 with a dissertation onFernando Pessoa:A Local Habitation and a Name: Heteronymy and Nationalism in the works of Fernando Pessoa.[citation needed]
She joinedSlate in mid-2003, writing the magazine'sSurfergirl column on television and pop-culture.[8] Before joining Slate she wrote under thepseudonym "Liz Penn" on her own (now-defunct) website/blog called the High Sign.[5] She has written forThe New York Times,The Washington Post Book World,Bookforum, andThe Atlantic[8] and has appeared on several occasions onCharlie Rose andThe Brian Lehrer Show. She is a regular on Slate'sCulture Gabfest.[1]
Stevens has described herself as "an atheist raised in culturally Christian milieu".[9] She lives inBrooklyn,New York.[8]
ladiesofboston: @thehighsign is this u Dana from Boston? Dana Stevens:@ladiesofboston Nope, wrong Dana. I'm from San Antonio, Texas.
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