47 Facts About Camille Paglia

Camille Anna Paglia is an American feminist academic and social critic.

Camille Paglia is a critic of contemporary American feminism and of post-structuralism, as well as a commentator on multiple aspects of American culture such as its visual art, music, and film history.

Camille Paglia was born in Endicott, New York, the eldest child of Pasquale and Lydia Anne Camille Paglia.

Camille Paglia's mother emigrated to the United States at five years old from Ceccano, in the province of Frosinone, Lazio, Italy.

Camille Paglia has stated that her father's side of the family was from the Campanian towns of Avellino, Benevento, and Caserta.

Camille Paglia was raised Roman Catholic, and attended primary school in rural Oxford, New York, where her family lived in a working farmhouse.

Camille Paglia made good points then, as she does now.

For more than a decade, Camille Paglia was the partner of artist Alison Maddex.

In 2007, the couple separated but remained "harmonious co-parents," in the words of Camille Paglia, who lived two miles apart.

Camille Paglia is an atheist, and has stated she has "a very spiritual mystic view of the universe".

Camille Paglia graduated from Harpur as class valedictorian in 1968.

Camille Paglia attended Yale as a graduate student, and she claims to have been the only open lesbian at Yale Graduate School from 1968 to 1972.

Camille Paglia considered Sontag a radical who had challenged male dominance.

Camille Paglia staged a poster campaign urging students to attend Sontag's appearance.

Sontag arrived at Bennington Carriage Barn, where she was to speak, more than an hour late, and then began reading what Camille Paglia recalled as a "boring and bleak" short story about "nothing" in the style of a French New Novel.

Camille Paglia wrote that she "nearly came to blows with the founding members of the women's studies program at the State University of New York at Albany, when they categorically denied that hormones influence human experience or behavior".

Similar fights with feminists and academics culminated in a 1978 incident which led her to resign from Bennington; after a lengthy standoff with the administration, Camille Paglia accepted a settlement from the college and resigned in 1979.

Camille Paglia supported herself with visiting and part-time teaching jobs at Yale, Wesleyan, and other Connecticut colleges.

Camille Paglia wrote articles on New Haven's historic pizzerias and on an old house that was a stop on the Underground Railroad.

Camille Paglia is on the editorial board of the classics and humanities journal Arion.

Camille Paglia cooperated with Carl Rollyson and Lisa Paddock in their writing of Susan Sontag: The Making of an Icon, sending them detailed letters from which they quoted with her permission.

In 2005, Camille Paglia was named as one of the top 100 public intellectuals by the journals Foreign Policy and Prospect.

Camille Paglia stated that many critics "escape into abstractions", rendering their criticism "intellectualized and tame".

Camille Paglia was known as one of the scholars and feminists that theorized American singer Madonna within feminism and for which publications such as Vogue called her the "high priestess of post-feminism".

Camille Paglia accused Greer of becoming "a drone in three years" as a result of her early success; Camille Paglia has criticized the work of activist Diana Fuss.

Camille Paglia contends that under Ireland's leadership, NOW "damaged and marginalized the women's movement".

Camille Paglia reacted to the essay by stating that the criticism was "long overdue", but characterized the criticism as "one PC diva turning against another".

Sommers relates that when Camille Paglia appeared at a Brown University forum, feminists signed a petition censuring her and demanding an investigation into procedures for inviting speakers to the campus.

Pollitt writes that Camille Paglia has glorified "male dominance", and has been able to get away with things "that might make even Rush Limbaugh blanch," because she is a woman.

Camille Paglia challenged that to be truly empowering, these groups need to mentor, advise, and be more inclusive, for more women to realize their true, individual potential.

Camille Paglia reports having gender dysphoria since childhood, and says that "never once in my life have I felt female".

Camille Paglia says that she was "donning flamboyant male costumes from early childhood on".

Nevertheless, Camille Paglia says that she is "highly skeptical about the current transgender wave" which she thinks has been produced by "far more complicated psychological and sociological factors than current gender discourse allows".

Camille Paglia's views led to a petition demanding that the University of the Arts remove her from their faculty, but the university rejected it.

Camille Paglia has long rejected the scientific consensus on global warming, which she describes as "the political agenda that has slowly accrued" around the issue of climate change.

Camille Paglia is critical of the influence of many postwar French writers have had on the humanities, claiming that universities are in the "thrall" of French post-structuralists; that in the works of Jean Baudrillard, Jacques Derrida, Jacques Lacan and Michel Foucault, she never once found a sentence that interested her.

Camille Paglia identified Jean-Paul Sartre's work as part of a high period in literature.

Camille Paglia has praised Roland Barthes's Mythologies and Gilles Deleuze's Masochism: Coldness and Cruelty, while finding both men's later work flawed.

Camille Paglia opposes laws against prostitution, pornography, drugs, and abortion.

Camille Paglia was highly critical of 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, calling her a "fraud" and a "liar".

Camille Paglia refused to support either Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump in the 2016 US presidential election, indicating in a March Salon column that if Hillary Clinton won the Democratic Party's nomination, she would either cast a write-in vote for Bernie Sanders or else vote for Green Party candidate Stein, as she did in 2012.

Camille Paglia later clarified in a statement that she would vote for Stein.

In 1993, Camille Paglia signed a manifesto supporting NAMBLA, a pederasty and pedophilia advocacy organization.

In 1994, Camille Paglia supported lowering the legal age of consent to 14.

In 1998, in commemoration of the 35th anniversary of the release of Alfred Hitchcock's film The Birds, the British Film Institute commissioned Camille Paglia to write a book about the film.

Break, Blow, Burn: Camille Paglia Reads Forty-three of the World's Best Poems is a collection of 43 short selections of verse with an accompanying essay by Paglia.

Clive James wrote that Camille Paglia tends to focus on American works as it moves from Shakespeare forward through time, with Yeats, following Coleridge, as the last European discussed, but emphasized her range of sympathy and her ability to juxtapose and unite distinct art forms in her analysis.