Stephen Metcalf is a critic, essayist, podcaster, and screenwriter. He is co-creator and host of the Slate magazine's "Culture Gabfest."Metcalf's work has appeared in The New York Times, New York Magazine, Slate, The Guardian, The Atlantic, and The New Yorker. Metcalf has taught at Yale, University of Pennsylvania, and NYU. He was a visiting faculty member at Bennington for Fall 2018.