Author, social critic, avowed feminist, scholar and professor, Camille Anna Paglia was born in1947 in Endicott, New York, to Pasquale and Lydia Paglia, who immigrated to the United States from Italy.
Her book, Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson, published in 1990, became am international bestseller. She is a professor emeritus of humanities and media studies at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia.
She is also the author of Sex, Art, and American Culture, Vamps & Tramps: New Essays, The Birds, a study of Alfred Hitchcock and Break, Blow, Burn: Camille Paglia Reads Forty-Three of the World's Best Poems. She has been a contributing editor at Interview magazine and has written articles on art, literature, popular culture, feminism, and politics for newspapers and magazines around the world. She has also been a frequent guest on TV, radio and podcasts.
She has been variously called the "feminist that other feminists love to hate," a "post-feminist feminist," one of the world's top 100 intellectuals by the UK's Prospect Magazine, and by her own description "a feminist bisexual egomaniac." The fiery professor is never without an opinion, never anything less than provocative and never, ever dull.
It's been reported that she is currently at work on a new collection of essays, among other things. She's also starred in the short film "Dr. Paglia" (1992), directed by Monika Treut.
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