Camille Paglia

Camille Anna Paglia (born April 2, 1947 in Endicott, New York) is a social critic, author and avowed feminist. She is University Professor of Humanities and Media Studies at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia.

Writings

Following the academically-oriented Sexual Personae (1990), Paglia began a series of more popularly oriented works. In 1992 she published Sex, Art and American Culture, a collection of magazine articles, book reviews, lectures and interviews. Her next book, Vamps and Tramps (late 1994), was a collection of short pieces along with new material such as a theoretical manifesto about sex, "No Law in the Arena". In 1998 she published a short volume about Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds in the British Film Institute Film Classics series.

Related Topics:
Alfred Hitchcock - The Birds

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In 2005 Pantheon Books published her study of poetry, entitled Break, Blow, Burn: Camille Paglia Reads Forty-three of the World's Best Poems. The title is from a line in "Holy Sonnet XIV" by John Donne. She is currently (as of 2005) writing a third essay collection for Vintage Books, and working on a project concerned with visual arts and Romanticism.

Related Topics:
John Donne - As of 2005 - Visual arts - Romanticism

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Paglia was a columnist for Salon.com for six years from its first issue and is now a contributing editor at Interview magazine. She continues to write articles and reviews for media and scholarly journals, such as her long article, "Cults and Cosmic Consciousness: Religious Vision in the American 1960s", published in the classics and humanities journal Arion in winter 2003.

Related Topics:
Salon.com - ''Interview'' magazine - Arion

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