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Prof Marina Warner

Positions held:
  • Professor of English & Creative Writing, School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication
  • Overview

    Overview

    Biography

    Marina Warner鈥檚 mother was Italian and her father an English bookseller; she was brought up in Egypt, Belgium, and Cambridge, England. She has been a writer since she was young, specialising in mythology and fairy-tales, with an emphasis on the part women play in them. Her award-winning books include (l976), (l982), (1994) and (1998). In l994 she gave the BBC Reith Lectures on the theme of . Her books include (2006), (2011) and (OUP, 2012) . She also writes fiction: (l988), was short-listed for the Booker prize, and in 2000, (2000) was long-listed. Her third collection of short stories, Fly Away Home came out in 2014. She has curated exhibitions, including The Inner Eye (l996), Metamorphing (2002-3), and Only Make-Believe: Ways of Playing (2005); Forms of Enchantment: Writing on Art and Artists will be published next year. She chaired the Man Booker International Prize for 2015. Her third collection of short stories, Fly Away Home, was published by Salt in autumn 2015.

    Since 2016, she has been working on the theme of Sanctuary and culture in times of dislocation and diaspora, developing the international Stories in Transit project, which aspires to work with displaced individuals, whatever their status, asking: What role can imaginary narratives play in contemporary conditions? In what ways can the ancient human capacity to tell and pass on stories help in the present crisis? Can make-believe help make-truth? More information about the work can be found here: .

  • Supervision and teaching

    Supervision and teaching

    Teaching

    Teaching modules

    • Storytelling: Narrative Archetypes, Forms and Techniques
  • Publications

    Publications

    Article

    • Warner, Marina (2023) . 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century 2023 (34), ISSN 1755-1560.
    • Warner, Marina (2023) . Critical Quarterly 65 (1), pp. 131-137. ISSN 0011-1562.
    • Warner, Marina (2022) . Faces de Eva (48), pp. 21-27. ISSN 0874-6885.
    • Warner, Marina (2020) . Social Research 87 (1), pp. 29-50. ISSN 0037-783X.
    • Warner, Marina (2017) . Marvels & Tales 31 (1), pp. 149-161. ISSN 1521-4281.
    • Warner, Marina (2017) . Book 2.0 7 (2), pp. 191-195. ISSN 2042-8022.
    • Warner, Marina and Bohr, M. and Luxemburg, R.B. (2017) . Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art 4 (2), pp. 303-314. ISSN 2051-7041.
    • Warner, Marina (2016) . The Threepenny Review (147), ISSN 2327-9613.

    Book

    • Warner, Marina (2023) . Cahiers Series. Sylph Editions. ISBN 9781909631434.
    • Warner, Marina (2022) . Afterall/MIT Press. ISBN 9781846382512.
    • Warner, Marina (2021) . London: Harper Collins. ISBN 9780008347628.
    • Warner, Marina (2018) . Very Short Introductions. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199532155.
    • Warner, Marina (2018) . London, UK: Thames & Hudson. ISBN 9780500021460.
    • Warner, Marina (2016) . Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198779858.
    • Warner, Marina (2015) . Oxford,: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198718796.
    • Ha, P.C. and Bauer, U.M. and Jonas, J. and Reynolds, A. and Warner, Marina and Schaffner, I. (2015) . New York, U.S.: Gregory R. Miller & Co.. ISBN 9781941366073.
    • Warner, Marina (2006) . Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199239238.
    • Warner, Marina (2002) . London, UK: Vintage. ISBN 9780099284659.
    • Warner, Marina (2000) . London, UK: Vintage. ISBN 9780099739814.
    • Warner, Marina (1998) . London, UK: Vintage. ISBN 9780099767411.
    • Warner, Marina (1995) . London, UK: Vintage. ISBN 9780099479512.
    • Warner, Marina (1981) . London, UK: University of California Press. ISBN 9780520224643.
    • Warner, Marina (1976) . London, UK: Vintage.

    Book review

    • Warner, Marina (2017) .

    Book section

    • Warner, Marina (2024) . In: H枚lter, A. (ed.) The Languages of World Literature. The Many Languages of Comparative Literature. De Gruyter. pp. 31-50. ISBN 9783110574333.
    • Warner, Marina (2024) . In: Freedberg, D. and Wedepohl, C. (eds.) Aby Warburg 150: Work, Legacy, Promise. De Gruyter Brill. pp. 357-368. ISBN 9783110612561.
    • Warner, Marina (2023) . In: Kirk, T. and Sangster, M. (eds.) Realms of Imagination: Essays from the Wide Worlds of Fantasy. The British Library. pp. 63-72. ISBN 9780712354493.
    • Warner, Marina (2023) . In: Slack-Smith, A. (ed.) Fairy Tales: In Art and Film. Queensland, Australia: Queensland Art Gallery. pp. 176-185. ISBN 9781925922158.
    • Warner, Marina (2023) . In: Rivers, B. (ed.) Collected Stories. Fireflies Press. pp. 125-133. ISBN 9780645454710.
    • Warner, Marina and Kjartansd贸ttir, H. (2022) . In: Arg贸arfl铆sin : go冒saga um Jason og Keneif. Reykjavik, Iceland: JPV 煤tg谩fa. pp. 151-167. ISBN 9789935293664.
    • Warner, Marina (2022) . In: Schlieker, A. (ed.) Conelia Parker. London, UK: Tate Publishing. pp. 110-113. ISBN 9781849767866.
    • Warner, Marina (2022) . In: The milk of dreams = Il latte dei sogni : Biennale arte 2022. Venice, Italy: La Biennale di Venezia. ISBN 9788898727629.
    • Warner, Marina (2022) . In: Rachel Kneebone: Punoutua. M盲ntt盲-Vilppula, Finland: Parvs Publishing Ltd & Serlachius Museum. pp. 11-28. ISBN 9789527226612.
    • Warner, Marina (2022) . In: Fishbein, M. (ed.) Kal墨lah and Dimnah: Fables of Virtue and Vice. New York, U.S. and Abu Dhabi: Library of Arabic Literature/New York University Press. ISBN 9781479806539.
    • Warner, Marina (2021) . In: Hughes, E.G. (ed.) The Book of Emotions. Redstone Press. ISBN 9780995518179.
    • Warner, Marina (2021) . In: Buenfeld, G. and Clark, M. (eds.) The Botanical Mind: Art, Mysticism and The Cosmic Tree. London, UK: Camden Art Centre. ISBN 9781907208942.
    • Warner, Marina (2021) . In: Daudy, K. (ed.) I Knew You Would Come Back to Me. London, UK: Kate Daudy. ISBN 9781527294813.
    • Warner, Marina (2021) . In: Agar, E. and Smith, L. and Lambirth, A. and Warner, Marina (eds.) Eileen Agar: Angel of Anarchy. Whitechapel Art Gallery. pp. 28-39. ISBN 9780854882922.
    • Warner, Marina (2021) . In: Crippa, E. (ed.) Paul Rego. London, UK: Tate Publishing. pp. 28-39. ISBN 9781849767521.
    • Warner, Marina (2019) . In: Hosking, S. (ed.) Kiss and Part. Norwich, UK: Canterbury Press. ISBN 9781786221926.
    • Warner, Marina (2019) . In: Murad, M. and Shurin, J. (eds.) The Outcast Hours. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 9781781085745.
    • Warner, Marina (2019) . In: Provost, L. (ed.) Legsicon. Book Works. ISBN 9781906012991.
    • Warner, Marina (2019) . In: Fernyhough, C. (ed.) Others: Writers on Difference. Unbound. pp. 233-251.
    • Warner, Marina (2019) . In: Susheila, N. (ed.) Brave New Words. The Power of Writing Now. Myriad Editions. pp. 223-250. ISBN 9781912408207.
    • Warner, Marina (2017) . In: McGuinness, P. and McLaughlin, E. (eds.) The Made and the Found: Poetry and Prose for Michael Sheringham. Legenda General Series. Oxford, UK: Legenda. pp. 21-46. ISBN 9781910887172.
    • Carrington, L. and Warner, Marina (2017) . In: Down Below. New York, U.S.: NYRB Classics. ISBN 9781681370606.
    • Warner, Marina (2017) . In: Alemani, C. (ed.) Il Mondo Magico. Venice, Italy: Marsilio. ISBN 9788831727204.
    • Warner, Marina (2017) . In: Hansel and Gretel and Other Stories. London, UK: The Folio Society.
    • Warner, Marina (2016) . In: Bauer, U.M. and Rujoiu, A. (eds.) Theatrical Fields. Cologne, Germany: Walther K枚nig. ISBN 9783863359232.
    • Anderson, B. and Warner, Marina (2016) . In: The Fate of Rural Hell: Asceticism and Desire in Buddhist Thailand. Kolkata, India: Seagull Books. ISBN 9780857424020.
    • Warner, Marina (2016) . In: Doniger, W. and Galison, P. and Neiman, S. (eds.) What Reason Promises: Essays on Reason, Nature and History. de Gruyter. pp. 71-76. ISBN 9783110455113.
    • Warner, Marina . In: Morris, N. and Smith, C. (eds.) The Cinema of Powell and Pressburger. London, UK: Bloomsbury. pp. 158-169. ISBN 9781838719166.

    Other

    • Warner, Marina (2024) .
    • Warner, Marina (2023) . Royal Opera House.
    • Warner, Marina (2021) . The Grange Festival.