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Virginia Heffernan (born August 8, 1969) is an American journalist. From 2003 to 2011, she was a staff writer for ''The New York Times'' — first as a TV critic, then as a magazine columnist, and then as an opinion writer. She has also worked as a senior editor for ''Harper's'', a founding editor of ''Talk'', a TV critic for ''Slate'', a fact checker for ''The New Yorker'' and a national correspondent for ''Yahoo News''. Heffernan writes as a cultural critic, with particular attention to digital culture. She is known as a playful, stylish and erudite writer; in 2014 Ben Yagoda in the Chronicle of Higher Education named her among his top candidates for "best living writer of English prose."〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Wordsmith Bingo – Lingua Franca - Blogs - The Chronicle of Higher Education )〕 Since 2014, Heffernan has been a Visiting Scholar in Media, Communications and Culture at NYU and a regular contributor to (Backchannel ) and (The Message ), both writing collectives housed on The Medium website. She currently writes a monthly column on language for The New York Times Magazine called "First Words". ==Background and education== Virginia Heffernan was born in Hanover, New Hampshire. She graduated ''summa cum laude'' from the University of Virginia (1991) and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. She also received an English Literature Master's Degree (1993) and Ph.D (2002) from Harvard University. Her father is a retired professor of English literature. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Virginia Heffernan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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