Camille Paglia

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.