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In the autumn of 1972, Paglia began teaching at Bennington College, which hired her in part thanks to a recommendation from Harold Bloom. [30] At Bennington, she befriended the philosopher James Fessenden, who first taught there in the same semester.
Although feeling excluded socially, Paglia excelled academically and in college graduated valedictorian at the State University of New York at Binghamton in 1968. She went on to spent four years at Yale University, earning her Ph.D. in English before taking a teaching position at Bennington College in Vermont.
Aug 29, 2024 · Paglia was the daughter of a professor of Romance languages and was valedictorian of her class at the State University of New York at Binghamton (B.A., 1968). She became a disciple of the outspoken critic and educator Harold Bloom at Yale University, where she earned a Ph.D. in 1974.
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In the early 1990s, Paglia had been working for six years at the American University of Arts in Philadelphia. In addition to teaching she also worked on her book, Sexual Personae, an...
Then I had my first job at Bennington College in 1972. People said, “There’s this new women’s studies department. One of the first ever at the State University of New York at Albany.
Nov 20, 2014 · Ever since the publication of “Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson” in 1990, Camille Paglia, Professor at the University of Arts in Philadelphia, has been one of the most refreshing, albeit controversial voices in cultural criticism in the US.
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Paglia was born in upstate New York, where her father, Pasquale, was a professor of Romance languages at Le Moyne College in Syracuse. She admits she had a "violent outlaw quality" as a child and rebelled against her parents' and church's teachings.
