Prof Marina Warner
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Overview
Overview
Biography
Marina Warner’s 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 Alone of All Her Sex: The Myth and the Cult of the Virgin Mary (l976), Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism (l982), From the Beast to the Blonde : On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers (1994) and No Go the Bogeyman (1998). In l994 she gave the BBC Reith Lectures on the theme of Six Myths of Our Time. Her books include Phantasmagoria: Spirit Visions, Metaphors, and Media (2006), Stranger Magic: Charmed States and The Arabian Nights (2011) and Once Upon a Time: A Short History of Fairy Tale (OUP, 2012) . She also writes fiction: The Lost Father (l988), was short-listed for the Booker prize, and in 2000, The Leto Bundle (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: www.storiesintransit.org.
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Supervision and teaching
Supervision and teaching
Supervision
Current doctoral researchers
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PAULINE SUWANBAN
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Publications
Publications
Article
- Warner, Marina (2023) John Berger’s knowledge, or listening in to the voice of the (female) image. Critical Quarterly 65 (1), pp. 131-137. ISSN 0011-1562.
- Warner, Marina (2023) The Pinwill Sisters. 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century 2023 (34), ISSN 1755-1560.
- Warner, Marina (2022) Paula Rego. Faces de Eva (48), pp. 21-27. ISSN 0874-6885.
- Warner, Marina (2020) Unknowability and pleasure: the case of the vanishing referent. Social Research 87 (1), pp. 29-50. ISSN 0037-783X.
- Warner, Marina (2017) Report: bearer-beings and stories in transit/storie in transito. Marvels & Tales 31 (1), pp. 149-161. ISSN 1521-4281.
- Warner, Marina (2017) An oddly modern fairy tale for Jack Zipes. Book 2.0 7 (2), pp. 191-195. ISSN 2042-8022.
- Warner, Marina and Bohr, M. and Luxemburg, R.B. (2017) Billboard, banner, blackboard: Marina Warner’s photographs of the Cultural Revolution. Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art 4 (2), pp. 303-314. ISSN 2051-7041.
- Warner, Marina (2016) A symposium on crying. The Threepenny Review (147), ISSN 2327-9613.
Book
- Warner, Marina (2023) Temporale. Cahiers Series. Sylph Editions. ISBN 9781909631434.
- Warner, Marina (2022) Helen Chadwick: The Oval Court. Afterall/MIT Press. ISBN 9781846382512.
- Warner, Marina (2021) Inventory of a life mislaid: an unreliable memoir. London: Harper Collins. ISBN 9780008347628.
- Warner, Marina (2018) Forms of enchantment: writing on art and artists. London, UK: Thames & Hudson. ISBN 9780500021460.
- Warner, Marina (2018) Fairy tale: a very short introduction. Very Short Introductions. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199532155.
- Warner, Marina (2016) Once upon a time: a short history of the fairy tale. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198779858.
- Warner, Marina (2015) Joan of Arc - the image of female heroism. 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) Joan Jonas: they come to us without a word. New York, U.S.: Gregory R. Miller & Co.. ISBN 9781941366073.
- Warner, Marina (2006) Phantasmagoria: spirit visions, metaphors, and media into the twenty-first century. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199239238.
- Warner, Marina (2002) The Leto bundle. London, UK: Vintage. ISBN 9780099284659.
- Warner, Marina (2000) No go the bogeyman: scaring, lulling and making mock. London, UK: Vintage. ISBN 9780099739814.
- Warner, Marina (1998) The lost father. London, UK: Vintage. ISBN 9780099767411.
- Warner, Marina (1995) From the beast to the blonde: on fairy tales and their tellers. London, UK: Vintage. ISBN 9780099479512.
- Warner, Marina (1981) Joan of Arc: the image of female heroism. London, UK: University of California Press. ISBN 9780520224643.
- Warner, Marina (1976) Alone of all her sex: the myth and the cult of the Virgin Mary. London, UK: Vintage.
Book Review
- Warner, Marina (2017) Back from the underworld: the liveliness of the dead.
Book Section
- Warner, Marina (2024) Communities of fate: magical writing and contemporary fabulism. In: Hölter, A. (ed.) The Languages of World Literature. The Many Languages of Comparative Literature. De Gruyter. pp. 31-50. ISBN 9783110574333.
- Warner, Marina (2023) Blindsight. In: Rivers, B. (ed.) Collected Stories. Fireflies Press. pp. 125-133. ISBN 9780645454710.
- Warner, Marina (2023) Potato soup: true stories, real life. In: Slack-Smith, A. (ed.) Fairy Tales: In Art and Film. Queensland, Australia: Queensland Art Gallery. pp. 176-185. ISBN 9781925922158.
- Warner, Marina (2023) '‘To gambol upon gossamer’: fairy tales in performance. 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 (2022) Foreword. In: Fishbein, M. (ed.) Kalīlah 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 (2022) Ravelling time: the aesthetic adventures of Rachel Kneebone. In: Rachel Kneebone: Punoutua. Mänttä-Vilppula, Finland: Parvs Publishing Ltd & Serlachius Museum. pp. 11-28. ISBN 9789527226612.
- Warner, Marina (2022) Transubstantiation. In: Schlieker, A. (ed.) Conelia Parker. London, UK: Tate Publishing. pp. 110-113. ISBN 9781849767866.
- Warner, Marina (2022) Viral spiral. In: The milk of dreams = Il latte dei sogni : Biennale arte 2022. Venice, Italy: La Biennale di Venezia. ISBN 9788898727629.
- Warner, Marina and Kjartansdóttir, H. (2022) Eftirmáli. In: Argóarflísin : goðsaga um Jason og Keneif. Reykjavik, Iceland: JPV útgáfa. pp. 151-167. ISBN 9789935293664.
- Warner, Marina (2021) Foreword. In: Hughes, E.G. (ed.) The Book of Emotions. Redstone Press. ISBN 9780995518179.
- Warner, Marina (2021) Angel with Dove. In: Daudy, K. (ed.) I Knew You Would Come Back to Me. London, UK: Kate Daudy. ISBN 9781527294813.
- Warner, Marina (2021) Dream realism. In: Crippa, E. (ed.) Paul Rego. London, UK: Tate Publishing. pp. 28-39. ISBN 9781849767521.
- Warner, Marina (2021) Inward sightings of the life force. 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) The natural fantastic of Eileen Agar. 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 (2019) Out loud: the experience of literature in the digital space. In: Susheila, N. (ed.) Brave New Words. The Power of Writing Now. Myriad Editions. pp. 223-250. ISBN 9781912408207.
- Warner, Marina (2019) Buck Moon. In: Hosking, S. (ed.) Kiss and Part. Norwich, UK: Canterbury Press. ISBN 9781786221926.
- Warner, Marina (2019) Living in the country of words. In: Fernyhough, C. (ed.) Others: Writers on Difference. Unbound. pp. 233-251.
- Warner, Marina (2019) This place of thorns. In: Murad, M. and Shurin, J. (eds.) The Outcast Hours. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 9781781085745.
- Warner, Marina (2019) Dream. In: Provost, L. (ed.) Legsicon. Book Works. ISBN 9781906012991.
- Warner, Marina (2017) Cairo creole. 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) Introduction to Down Below by Leonora Carrington. In: Down Below. New York, U.S.: NYRB Classics. ISBN 9781681370606.
- Warner, Marina (2017) Building enchantments. In: Alemani, C. (ed.) Il Mondo Magico. Venice, Italy: Marsilio. ISBN 9788831727204.
- Warner, Marina (2017) Dreams of enchantment - Kay Nielsen's illustrations to Hansel and Gretel and Other Stories. In: Hansel and Gretel and Other Stories. London, UK: The Folio Society.
- Anderson, B. and Warner, Marina (2016) Review and correspondence with author of "The Fate of Rural Hell: Asceticism and Desire in Buddhist Thailand" by Benedict Anderson. In: The Fate of Rural Hell: Asceticism and Desire in Buddhist Thailand. Kolkata, India: Seagull Books. ISBN 9780857424020.
- Warner, Marina (2016) Dwelling under the sea, or the wonder of a glass sponge. 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 (2016) Theatrical fields (Joan Jonas and the Scene of Time)?. In: Bauer, U.M. and Rujoiu, A. (eds.) Theatrical Fields. Cologne, Germany: Walther König. ISBN 9783863359232.
- Warner, Marina The Red Shoes. 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) Programme notes - Metamorphoses, choreographed by Kim Brandstrup.
- Warner, Marina (2023) Rusalka: the element of water. Royal Opera House.
- Warner, Marina (2021) Fairy tales and femme fatales. The Grange Festival.