Stephen Metcalf

Visiting Faculty

Stephen Metcalf is a critic, essayist, podcaster, and screenwriter whose work has appeared in The New York Times, New York Magazine, Slate, The Guardian, The Atlantic, and The New Yorker. He is the co-creator and host of the Slate Culture Gabfest, a podcast. He is writing a book about the 1980s and a screenplay for Amazon Studios. 


Biography

Metcalf is a critic, essayist, podcaster, and screenwriter. His essays and columns have appeared in The New York Times, New York Magazine, Slate, The Guardian, The Atlantic, and The New Yorker. He is co-creator and host of the Slate Culture Gabfest, named one of the fifty best podcasts by Time Magazine and The Guardian. He is writing a book about the 1980s for Henry Holt, and a screenplay, an adaptation of the non-fiction book Final Cut by Steven Bach, for Amazon Studios. He has taught at Yale, University of Pennsylvania, and NYU. Metcalf was a visiting faculty member at Bennington for Fall 2018.