Dana Stevens (critic)
Dana Shawn Stevens (born June 30, 1966) is an American film critic who writes for Slate. She is also a cohost of the magazine's weekly cultural podcast, the Culture Gabfest. She is the author of a 2022 book about Buster Keaton and the 20th century titled Camera Man: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of the Twentieth Century. Life and career
Stevens grew up in Scarsdale, New York; and San Antonio, Texas. She graduated from Vassar College and 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. Before joining Slate she wrote under the pseudonym "Liz Penn" on her own (now-defunct) website/blog called the High Sign. She has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post Book World, Bookforum, and The Atlantic and has appeared on several occasions on Charlie Rose and The Brian Lehrer Show. She is a regular on Slate's Culture Gabfest. Stevens has described herself as "an atheist raised in culturally Christian milieu". She lives in Brooklyn, New York. References

External links
 Stevens' Slate archive

1966 births
20th-century American journalists
20th-century American non-fiction writers
20th-century American women writers
21st-century American journalists
21st-century American non-fiction writers
21st-century American women writers
American atheists
American bloggers
American film critics
National Society of Film Critics Members
American women podcasters
American podcasters
Living people
People from San Antonio
Writers from Scarsdale, New York
Slate (magazine) people
University of California, Berkeley alumni
Vassar College alumni
American women film critics
Writers from Brooklyn
American women bloggers