Camille Paglia
- Actress
Author, social critic, avowed feminist, and teacher Camille Anna Paglia
was born on 2 April 1947 in Endicott, New York, to Pasquale and Lydia
Paglia, who had immigrated to the United States from Italy. She has
published "Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily
Dickinson", "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
is 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. Paglia is a professor of
humanities and media studies at the University of the Arts in
Philadelphia. 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.
