Camille Paglia

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Camille Anna Paglia is an American academic and social critic. Paglia, a self-described dissident feminist, has been a professor at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, since 1984. The New York Times has described her as "first and foremost an educator".

She is the author of Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson and a collection of essays, Sex, Art, and American Culture. Her other books and essays include an analysis of Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds, and Break, Blow, Burn on poetry. Her most recent book is 2012's Glittering Images. She is a critic of American feminism and of post-structuralist theory as well as a commentator on multiple aspects of U.S. social culture such as its visual art, music, and film history.