About Me
Camille Anna Paglia is an American social critic, author and teacher. She is a professor of humanities and media studies at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.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.Paglia is an intellectual of many seeming contradictions: she is an atheist who respects religion and a classicist who champions art both high and low, with a view that human nature has an inherently dangerous Dionysian aspect, especially the wilder, darker sides of human sexuality.Break, Blow, Burn (Pantheon Books, 2005; Vintage Books, 2006) is her fifth book. Her prior books are: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (Yale University Press, 1990; Vintage Books, 1991); Sex, Art, and American Culture (Vintage Books, 1992); Vamps & Tramps: New Essays (Vintage Books, 1994); and The Birds, a study of Alfred Hitchcock published in 1998 by the British Film Institute in its Film Classics Series. Her work has been widely translated abroad. Her third essay collection is under contract to Vintage Books.Paglia is a Contributing Editor at Interview magazine. She has written innumerable articles on art, literature, popular culture, feminism, and politics for newspapers and magazines around the world, including Salon.com, for which she was a columnist for six years, beginning with its debut issue in 1995. She has lectured and appeared on television and radio extensively in the United States and abroad.
