Virginia Heffernan - The Lonely Girl, The Guitar God and the Hanged Man: How Online Video Has Already Changed Your Life
4:30 pm
Haldeman Center Kreindler Conf. Hall (Room 041)
Virginia Heffernan has been a television critic for The New York Times since September, 2003. She also reviews online video on the Screens blog for The New York Times on the Web. Previously,she was a deputy editor for The New York Times Magazine Home Design issue in 2001.
Before joining The Times, she was the television critic for Slate Magazine. Before that, she was a senior editor at Harper's Magazine, a writer for VHI, an editor at Talk Magazine, a teaching assistant at Harvard University and a fact-checker at The New Yorker.
Heffernan was named one of Columbia Journalism Review's "Editors to Watch" in 2002. Folio dubbed her a "Rising Star" that same year. In 2006, New York Moves named her one of its "Power Women." Her essays have been included in various anthologies: Extreme Exposure (TCC, 2000), Unholy Ghost (HarperCollins, 2001) and Prime Times (Crown, 2004). A novel she co-wrote with Mike Albo, The Underminer: The Best Friend Who Casually Destroys Your Life, was published in 2005 by Bloomsbury and optioned for the movies by Warner Brothers.
Her comic monologues, co-written with Albo, have been produced across the United States and in Europe and have been collected in several anthologies.
Born in Hanover, N.H., she received a B.A. in English and Philosophy from the University of Virginia in 1991. She received her M.A. in English Literature from Harvard in 1993 and a Ph.D in English Literature from Harvard in 2002.
She lives in Brooklyn, NY with her husband, David, and (almost) two-year-old son, Ben.