- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2005
- Sections
- Early Modern Languages and Literatures to 1830, Modern Languages, Literatures and other Media from 1830, Culture, Media and Performance
- Website
- http://www.marinawarner.com
Marina Warner is an award-winning novelist, short story writer, historian, and mythographer, who works across genres and cultures exploring myths and stories. She has focused especially on fairy tales and the Arabian Nights (in Stranger Magic (2011), and Once Upon a Time (2014)). The interrelationship between stories and migration have long been an area of inquiry (the novel The Leto Bundle (2000) and Sanctuary: Ways of Telling, Ways of Dwelling (2025). In 2015 she was awarded the prestigious Holberg Prize. She is a Distinguished Fellow of All Souls, and Professor of English and Creative Writing at Birkbeck College, University of London. From 2017-2021, Warner served as President of the Royal Society of Literature, the 19th – and first woman – to hold the post. Her Forms of Enchantment: Writings on Art and Artists was published by Thames & Hudson in September 2018 and came out in paperback in 2024. She was made DBE in 2015 and CH in 2023.
10-Minute Talks: The power of stories and the practice of rhetoric
3 Mar 2021 Professor Dame Marina Warner FBA
Professor Marina Warner FBA argues that in an era of public disinformation, the study of the uses of rhetoric, as deployed in many forms of literature, is urgently needed.
Current post
Birkbeck, University of London Professor of English and Creative Writing
SOAS, University of London Professorial Research Fellow
Past appointments
All Souls College University of Oxford Quondam Fellow
2017 - 2019
All Souls College University of Oxford Fellow
2013 - 2017
University of Essex Professor, Department of Literature, Film and Theatre Studies, University of Essex
2004 - 2014
Trinity College, Cambridge Visiting Fellow Commoner
1997 - 1998
Erasmus University, Rotterdam Tinbergen Professor
1991 -
Getty Research Institute Visiting Scholar
1987 - 1988
Publications
The Inner Eye: Art Beyond the Visible
Marina Warner - Published in 1996 by National Touring Exhibitions
