Professor Dame Marina Warner FBA
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2005
- Subjects
- Literature
- 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
Summary
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.
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
Once Upon a Time – A Short History of Fairy Tale
Marina Warner - Published in 2014 by Oxford University Press
Stranger Magic: Charmed States & the Arabian Nights
Marina Warner - Published in 2012 by Chatto & Windus; Harvard University Press
Signs & Wonders: Essays on Literature and Culture
Marina Warner - Published in 2003 by Chatto & Windus
Fantastic Metamorphoses, Other Worlds: Ways of Telling the Self
Marina Warner - Published in 2002 by Oxford University Press
No Go the Bogeyman: Scaring, Lulling and Making Mock
Marina Warner - Published in 1998 by Chatto & Windus
From the Beast to the Blonde: on Fairytales and their Tellers
Marina Warner - Published in 1994 by Vintage
The Inner Eye: Art Beyond the Visible
Marina Warner - Published in 1996 by National Touring Exhibitions
Monuments and Maidens: The Allegory of the Female Form
Marina Warner - Published in 1985 by Weidenfeld & Nicolson; University of California Press
Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism
Marina Warner - Published in 1981 by Weidenfeld & Nicolson; University of California Press
The Crack in the Tea-Cup: Britain in the 20th Century
Marina Warner - Published in 1979 by André Deutsch
Alone of All Her Sex: The Myth and the Cult of the Virgin Mary
Marina Warner - Published in 1976 by Weidenfeld & Nicolson; Oxford University Press
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Catriona Seth FBA
French literature (especially novels and poetry) - The long 18th century in France - Cultural history of Enlightenment Europe - Memoirs and autobiography
Professor Ayanna Thompson FBA
Shakespeare, early modern literature, performance studies, and premodern critical race studies
