(American literary theorist and cultural critic, 1947–). Paglia is a controversial feminist defender of pornography, prostitution, sexual perversion, and the Dionysian underside of human nature; a champion of classisism, art and poetry; and a strong critic of "liberal establishment" feminism. Her major published works include the best-seller Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990); 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 (2005).
