Curriculum vitae
Marina Warner
Born London , l946. Italian mother; English father, bookseller.
Educated: Primary Schooling, Gezira, Cairo, Egypt; Les Dames de Marie, Uccle, Brussels l953-9; St Mary's Convent, Ascot, Berkshire, UK, l959 –63; Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, l964-67: MA Modern Languages (French and Italian -Distinction in French Oral), l968.
Distinctions and Awards
Runner Up: W.H. Smith Children's Poetry Prize, l964.
Young Writer of the Year (Daily Telegraph Award), l971.
Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, 1985
Fawcett Prize, l986
Booker Prize Short List, l988
PEN Silver Pen Award, l988
Commonwealth Writer's Prize ( Eurasia ), l989
Harvey Darton Prize, l996
Mythopoeic Scholarship Award 1996
Katharine Briggs Memorial Prize, 1999
Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, 2000
Honorary Fellow, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford , 2000
Rose Mary Crawshay Prize, British Academy , 2000
Vice-President, Institute of Greece , Rome , and Classical Studies, University of Bristol 2004
Aby Warburg Prize, 2004
Fellow of the British Academy , 2005
Commendatore dell’Ordine della Stella di Solidareità, 2005
Honorary Fellow, London Institute of Pataphysics, 2007
CBE, 2008
Honorary Degrees
Honorary Fellow, Queen Mary and Westfield College , University of London , l994
Hon. D. Litt., University of Exeter , l995
Hon. Doc., Sheffield Hallam University , l995
Hon D.Litt., University of York , l997
Hon. Doc., University of North London , l997
Hon D. Litt., University of St Andrew ’s, l998
Hon. Doc., Tavistock Institute ( University of East London ), 1999
Hon.Doc. Royal College of Art, 2004
Hon. Doc, University of Kent , 2005
Hon D.Litt University of Leicester , 2006
Hon D. Litt University of Oxford , 2006
Posts Held
Getty Scholar at the Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, l987-8.
Tinbergen Professor, Erasmus University Rotterdam, l991.
Visiting Fellow of the British Film Institute, l993
Visiting Lecturer in Creative Writing, Dept of English, University of Reading, l993
Visiting Professor of Women's Studies, University of Ulster, 1994-5
Visiting Lecturer (to the late Edward Said’s Center for the Humanities), Columbia University, 1996
Visiting Writer, Banff Centre for the Arts, Summer l996
Whitney J. Oates Short-Term Fellow, Council of the Humanities, Princeton, Fall l996
Visiting Mellon Professor in the History of Art, Univ. of Pittsburgh, Fall l997
Visiting Fellow Commoner, Trinity College, Cambridge, l998
Visiting Fellow, Humanities Research Centre, Warwick, l999
Visiting Professor, Dept of Visual Studies, Birkbeck College, University of London, l999 –2004
Visiting Professor, Stanford University, 2000
Visiting Fellow, All Souls College. Oxford, 2001
Visiting Professor, Dept of English, St Andrew’s University, Scotland 2000-
Visiting Professor, Université de Paris XIII, Spring, 2003
Visiting Fellow, The Italian Academy, Columbia University, New York, 2003
Professor, Dept. of Literature, Film and Theatre Studies, University of Essex (2004- )
Senior Fellow, Remarque Institute, New York University , Fall 2006
Visiting Professor, Royal College of Art, 2008
Invited Lectures
Reith Lecturer, BBC, l994
Tanner Lecturer, Yale University , l999
Clarendon Lecturer, Oxford , 2001
Robb Lecturer, University of Auckland , 2004
Single lectures include:
Presidential Lecture, Stanford, 14 April 2008
Beatrice Blackwood Lecture, Oxford , May 23 2007
Getty Museum Lecture on ‘Beasts’, for exhibition of medieval manuscripts, July 22 2007
Jane Harrison Memorial Lecture, Cambridge , May 2008
Hussey Lecture, Oxford : ‘Wise Men from the East: The Knowledge of Strangers’, 2008
Carpenter Lecturer, Institute of the Visual Arts, Harvard University , 2003
Alan Marre Maccabaeus Lecture, University College London , 2005: 'Stranger Magic: The Psychic Geography of Darkness'
‘What is Enchantment?’ Heyman Center for the Humanities, Columbia University , Conference, January 2006.
John Coffin Lecture, University of London , l997
The Perrot-Warrick Lecture at Trinity, l998
Marina Warner has given many other lectures and seminars and participated in conferences in the UK, Ireland, Italy, Spain, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Australia and the United States, in universities and institutes including, for example, the Getty Museum, the National Gallery London, Universities of Edinburgh, Glasgow, and St Andrew’s.
Lectured for the British Council, in Japan, the University of the West Indies (Jamaica, Barbados, St Lucia), Germany, France, Belgium, Italy, and the Ukraine.
Readings, panel discussions, and debates at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, The Purcell Room, London, Cheltenham Literature Festival, Edinburgh Books Festival, et al.
Currently
Professor, Dept. of Literature, Film and Theatre Studies, University of Essex (2004- )
Publications
Cultural History and Criticism
The Dragon Empress The life and times of Tz'u-hsi, Empress Dowager of China, l835-1980. l972
Alone of All Her Sex The myth and the cult of the Virgin Mary. l976
Joan of Arc: The image of female heroism. London, l981.
Monuments & Maidens The allegory of the female form. l985.
Into the Dangerous World. Some reflections on childhood and its costs. l988.
L'Atalante. 1994
Managing Monsters: Six Myths of Our Time. The l994 Reith Lectures (London, l994) (US title: Six Myths of Our Time, New York, l995)
From the Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and their Tellers. l994.
No Go the Bogeyman: On Scaring, Lulling and Making Mock.1998.
Fantastic Metamorphoses, Other Worlds: Ways of Telling the Self (Clarendon Lectures), Oxford , 2002
Signs & Wonders: Essays in Literature and Culture (Chatto & Windus, 2003)
Phantasmagoria: Spirit Visions, Metaphors, and Media, Oxford University Press, 2006.
The Symbol Gives Rise to Thought (Collected essays on art), forthcoming Violette Editions 2008
Recent publications
Stories
Forthcoming: 'Forget My Fate', in Midsummer Nights, ed. Jeanette Winterson (stories after opera for Glyndebourne).
'Cristina's Cell', first broadcast Radio 4, in series I Want to Be Alone, appearing in Italian, 2009.
'A Family Friend', short story first broadcast in Alan Howard Reads on Radio 4 See text with introduction, International Literary Quarterly, No. 4, http://www.interlitq.org/
'Melusine', short story in Marie-Claude de Brunhoff, Theatres Immobiles (Paris:Seuil, 2008)
‘Lord of the Dance; Five Pieces for Ram Gopal’
http://www.salidaa.org.uk/salidaa/site/Projects/BackChat
‘After the Fox’, in Don't Know a Good Thing: the Asham Award Collection, ed. Kate Pullinger (Bloomsbury, 2006)
Two tales for Barbara Campbell http://1001.net.au/search/
'Ladybird, Ladybird', published Harpers, December 2005.
'Out of the Burning House', broadcast Radio 4, 2004.
‘My first communion’, in Rites of Passage, ed. Kate Reardon, supplement for PEN, Vanity Fair, August 2006.
‘Spirits before my face’, in Caribbean Despatches: Stories of Change and Movement, ed. Jane Bryce, London: Macmillan Palgrave, 2006
‘Old Hags’, in City of Disappearances, ed. Iain Sinclair, 2006.
‘Cancellanda’, Raritan XXIII, Number 2, Fall 2003; Wasafiri, 2004. (Reprinted in Italian as small volume, trans. Marcella Romeo Lovison (Palermo: Quattrosoli, 2004)
‘Worm Wrangler’, Heat (Sydney, 2003)
‘Rapture’,Otherworlds: Nancy Spero and Kiki Smith, ed. Jon Bird (London: Reaktion Books, 2003)
‘After the Fox’, in Asham Short Stories, ed. Kate Pullinger, forthcoming, 2005
‘Birgitta’s Cell’, BBC Radio 4, 2005.
Essays
‘Angels & Engines: Apocalypse and its Aftermath from George W Bush to Philip Pullman’, TLS Aug. 19 and 26 2005; different version published as ‘The Culture of Apocalypse’, Raritan, Fall 2005 Vol XXV, No. 2.
‘Knowing your Daemons: Metamorphosis from The Arabian Nights to Philip Pullman’, in Children’s Literature Global and Local: Social and Aesthetic Perspectives, eds. Emer O’Sullivan, Kimberley Reynolds, Rolf Romoren (Oslo, 2005)
‘Out of the Hell-Broth on to the Pillow: The Metamorphosis of a Frog’, in Kiss the Frog: The Art of Transformation exh. cat., Nasjonalmuseet for Kunst, arkitektur og design, Oslo 28 May- 18 Sept 2005.
‘Passionate Cruces: The Art of Dorothy Cross’ in Dorothy Cross, exhibition catalogue, Irish Museum of Modern Art. Dublin , 2005 ( Milan ; Charta, 2005)
‘Wolf-Girl, Soul-Bird: The Mortal Art of Kiki Smith’, in Kiki Smith, exhibition catalogue for retrospective, Minneapolis – San Francisco, New York, 2005- 7.
‘Self-Portrait in a Rear-View Mirror’ in Only Make Believe: Ways of Playing, catalogue of exhibition at Compton Verney, 2004-5.
‘Hieronymus Bosch: The Hay Wain’, El Bosco y la tradicion pictorica de lo fantastico en el Museo del Prado, Madrid: Museo del Prado, 2006.
‘Invented Plots: The Enchanted Puppets and Fairy Doubles of Henry Fuseli’, in Gothic Nightmares: Fuseli, Blake and the Romantic Imagination, exh. cat. ,Tate Britain , London , February 15-1 May 2006
‘Insubstantial Pageants: spirit visions, soul traces’, in The Blur of the Otherworldly, ed. Mark Alice Durrant, exhibition catalogue, Baltimore , 2005.
‘Airy Spirits and Spitting Images: Adventures with Ectoplasm’, Vorträge aus dem Warburg-Haus, Vol. 9, Hamburg , 2006
Introduction, Robert Kirk, The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns and Fairies. New York : New York Review Books, 2006
’The Word Unfleshed: Memory in Cyberspace’, Raritan , Spring 2006 (Talk given to The Friends of the Bodleian Library, June 2005)
Introduction, Charles and Mary Lamb, Tales from Shakespeare, London : Penguin Classic, 2006.
‘Ghosts and Daemons: The Revival of Myth and Magic’, Presidential Address, Virgil Society, Proceedings, 2006.
‘Darkness Visible : The view from the shadows’ [extracts from Phantasmagoria], Cabinet , March 2007
Maya Deren: Dancing the White Darkness’, Tate Etc Magazine, Spring 2007
Interview with Tacita Dean, in Tacita Dean (Phaidon, 2006)
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Forthcoming
‘Singing Each to Each’, Introduction to David Parker, Sirens, Gottingen : Steidl, 2006
‘Light Drawing In: The Art of Tacita Dean’ [proceedings of conference, ‘Walking’, Summer 2006], Schaulager Museum , Basel , 2007
‘Who Can Shave an Egg? From speech to silence in Mallarmé and Beckett’ [from lecture in April 2006 at the close of the Beckett Centenary Festival in Dublin ], Michigan University Press, 2008.
'Wham!' Aaargh! Boo! Oooh! Is there a natural value to certain noises?’ Forthcoming in Soundtrack, October 2007 and in proceedings of conference [http://www.schoolofsound.co.uk/], London , 2009
Uncollected (not reprinted in Signs & Wonders)
Rose Dugdale Sunday Times Magazine 17 August l974
Introduction to Christine de Pizan, The Book of the City of Ladies, trans. E.J. Richards, New York, l982..
Introduction, Mildred Cable with Francesca French, The Gobi Desert ( London , l984)
Introduction to Leonora Carrington, The House of Fear: Notes from Down Below. London , l988; and to Leonora Carrington, The Seventh Horse. London , l988.
'The Wronged Daughter', Grand Street VII, 3 (Spring l988), 143-63.
'Fighting Talk', in The State of the Language, ed. Leonard Michaels and Christopher Ricks, London , l989, 100-109.
'The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to Timothy', in Incarnation: Contemporary Writers on the New Testament. Edited Alfred Corn, New York , l989, 76-82.
'Valmont - or the Marquise Unmasked', in The Don Giovanni Book; Myths of Seduction and Betrayal Ed. Jonathan Miller. London , l990.
The Absent Mother, or, Women against Women in the Old Wives' Tale', Inaugural Lecture, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, l991.
'Laughter and Hope in the Old Wives' Tale', La Cenerentola, Programme, Royal Opera House (London, l991),
'Rich Pickings', in The Agony and the Ego The Art and Strategy of Fiction Writing Explored, ed. Clare Boylan, London , 1993
Cinema and the Realms of Enchantment. Lectures, Seminars and Essays by Marina Warner and others. Ed Duncan Petrie. London , l994.
'Between the colonist and the creole: family bonds, family boundaries', in Unbecoming Daughters of Empire. Ed. Anna Rutherford. Sydney and Mundelstrup, Denmark , l993.
Introduction, The Second Virago Book of Fairy Tales, ed. Angela Carter London, l993 (A tribute to AC based on the obituary I wrote in the Independent, Feb. 1993)
'Towards a Democratic Culture', Charter 88 Paper, l993.
'Indigo - Mapping the Waters', in Etudes Britanniques Contemporaines No. 5, Dec. l994.
'Joan of Arc: A Gender Myth', in Joan of Arc: Reality and Myth, Ed Jan van Herwaarden. Rotterdam , l994.
'The Wronged Daughter in Fairytale: "Unnatural Love" in the cult of Saint Dympna and Charles Perrault's 'Peau d'ane', in Saints and Sagas A Symposium, eds. Hans Bekker-Nielsen and Birte Carle Odense, l994
'The Slipped Retina', in The Power and the Throne : The Monarchy Debate , ed. Anthony Barnett. London , l994
'Angela Carter: Bottle Blonde, Double Drag', in Flesh and the Mirror Essays on the Art of Angela Carter ed. Lorna Sage London, l995
'Cannibals and Kings' (On 'King Kong, Eighth Wonder of the World')', in Ape, Man, Apeman: Changing Views since 1600. Eds. Raymond Corbey and Bert Theunissen. Leiden , 1995.
Introduction, Joan of Arc, ed. Monica Furlong. London , l996
‘The Enchantments of Circe’, Raritan XVII:1 Summer l997
‘“Nonsense Is Rebellion”: The Childsplay of Lewis Carroll’, in Lewis Carroll London : The British Council, l998.
‘“Fee Fie Fo Fum” : The child in the jaws of the story’, in Cannibalism and the Colonial World eds. Francis Barker, Peter Hulme, Margaret Iversen. Cambridge , l998.
‘Why Do Ogres Eat Babies? Monstrous Paternity in Myth and Fairytales’, in Paternity and Fatherhood: Myths and Realities, ed. Lieve Spaas, London , l998.
‘“Hush-a-bye Baby”: Death and Violence in the Lullaby’, Raritan , XVIII:1, Summer l998
‘The Old Wives’ Tale’, in The Classic Fairy Tales, ed. Maria Tatar, New York , l999. ‘Ogres and storytellers: Strategies of resistance in the Italian fairy tale’, The Italianist No. 17, l997.
‘Peroxide Mug-Shot’, LRB, 1 January 1998 (on Myra Hindley)
‘Les femmes et le secret’ in Le Secret: motif et moteur de la litterature. ed. Chantal Zabus. Louvain , l999.
‘Doubting Thomas’, in There Are Kermodians, ed. Anthony Holden and Ursula Owen ( London , l999).
‘A Posy for the Misses Pinwell’ , in The Character of the English Countryside ( London , 2000)
‘‘The foul witch’ and her ‘freckled whelp’: Circean mutations in the new world’, in The Tempest and its Travels, ed. Peter Hulme . London , 2001.
‘The Structure of the Imagination’, in Structure: The Darwin Lectures, l998, ed.Wendy Pullan ( Cambridge , 2000)
Introduction, to Iona and Peter Opie, The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren, New York Review of Books, New York and London 2001
‘Leda and the Swan: The Unbearable Matter of Bliss’, in Poetry and Philosophy in the Middle Ages A Festschrift for Peter Dronke ed. John Marenbon ( Leiden , 2000)
‘Le Mythe et la féerie: réécriture et récupération’, Actes du colloque ‘Ou en est-on avec la théorie littéraire?’ (Paris VII, 1999) , eds. Julia Kristeva et Evelyne Grossman , Textuel No. 37. Avril, 2000, pp.85-97
Spirit Visions 1: Figuring the Invisible 2: Materializing the Impalpable Tanner Year Book 22 (1999-2000) Utah , 2001; # 1 reprinted in slightly different form as ‘Spirit Visions: Faces in the Clouds , or, Figuring the Invisible’, Raritan XXI Spring 2002
Introduction to Lorna Sage, Moments of Truth ( London , 2001)
‘Riscritture: traduzioni de storie et metamorfosi del mito’, in Le Riscritture del postmoderno Percorsi Angloamericani, eds. Ornella De Zordo e Fiorenzo Fantaccini ( Bari , 2002).
‘Painted Devils and Aery Nothings: Metamorphoses and Magic Art’, Proceedings of International Shakespeare Association Conference: Shakespeare and the Mediterranean , Valencia , May 2001.
‘Embodiments of Wisdom?’, review of Wendy Steiner, The Trouble with Beauty, TLS , March 8 2002
‘Castaway on the Ocean of Story: Metamorphic lives, resurrected texts’ – Plenary talk to German Shakespeare Institute, 28 April 2002, published by Deutsche Shakespeare-Gesellschaft , Shakespeare Jahrbuch Band 139/2003
‘Magical Mystery Tourism’, review of Simon During, Modern Enchantments The Cultural Power of Secular Magic, Financial Times, 11-12 May 2002
Tribute to W.G. Sebald, Austerlitz , winner of Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, 11 April 2002, award ceremony speech.
‘Who’s Sorry Now? : Personal stories, public apologies’. Amnesty Lecture, Oxford 2002, (Oxford University Press, 2004); posted at www.opendemocracy.net December 2002.
Preface to Sally Anne Jane Purcell, Collected Poems , edited Peter Jay. London : Anvil Books, 2002
‘Metamorphosis, or Some Thoughts of a Former Bird’, speech at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, Dinner in Middle Temple Hall, 19 May 2002, published Brown Book, 2003.
‘The Pillars of Hercules : Plus Ultra , or the limits to “virtùe canoscenza”’, Talk to Dante Society, Oxford , 21 May 2002 ; published Raritan , Spring 2003
‘Ovid in America ’, Raritan XXI Summer 2002 ; translated, Palermo , 2004
‘Science at the Séances’, review of Roger Luckhurst, The Invention of Telepathy, London Review of Books Vol 24, no. 19 3 October 2002.
Preface to How We Recovered the Ashes by P.F.Warner (Centenary Publication, MCC, 2003)
Introduction to The World of Myth, British Museum Press, 2003
Introduction, The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night ( London : Folio Society, 2003)
‘Ectoplasm’, in Eggplant Dreaming, ed. Ivor Indyk, Heat 5 New Series, 2003
Introduction, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. Vintage Classics, 2004
Introduction, H.G.Wells, The Time Machine Penguin Classics, 2005
Introduction, Robert Kirk, The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns and Fairies, New York Review Books, forthcoming. 2006
Introduction, Charles Lamb, Lamb’s Tales, Penguin Classic, forthcoming 2006.
‘Spirits before my face’, in Caribbean Despatches: Stories of Change and Movement', ed. Jane Bryce, Macmillan Palgrave, forthcoming
Numerous reviews (principally of books and exhibitions) and shorter articles in various publications, including The Times Literary Supplement, The Times Higher Education Supplement, The London Review of Books, The New York Times Book Review, NY Times Magazine, The Independent, and The Independent on Sunday, The Guardian Review. Also judge of Booker Prize (l98 ), Arts Council Award, George Orwell Prize (2003); Premio Napoli (2004- ); Premio Crotone (2005- ).
Fiction
In a Dark Wood. l977.
The Skating Party. l982.
The Lost Father. l987.
Indigo. l992.
Wonder Tales: Six Tales of Enchantment (ed.) 1994
The Leto Bundle. 2001.
Short Stories:
Mermaids in the Basement l993 (includes ‘The Legs of the Queen of Sheba,’ in Best Short Stories 1988, ed Giles Gordon and David Hughes (London, l989); ‘Ariadne after Naxos’ in The Secret Self, A century of short stories by women, ed Hermione Lee, London 1995)
Murderers I Have Known 2002(Chatto & Windus, 2002) (Includes: ‘Canary’, New Writing 6, ed. A.S. Byatt (London, l997); ‘Natural limits’, New Writing 7, eds. Carmen Callil and Craig Raine (London 1998);‘The Belled Girl gives a tape to an Impresario’ in Silence Please! Stories after the works of Juan Muñoz, ed. Louise Neri, Dublin and Zurich 1996; reprinted Marvels & Tales, Vol 12, no. 1, 1998; Angela Carter and the Fairy Tale, eds. Danielle M. Roemer and Cristina Bacchilega (Wayne State, 2001); ‘Lullaby for an Insomniac Princess’, BBC Radio 4, l999; printed in Mosaic, ed. Monisha Mukundan ( New Delhi, l999)
Short Stories (Uncollected)
‘Correggio, “ Mercury Instructing Cupid Before Venus (The School of Love)” BBC Radio 3, l998.
‘Virgil the Magician’, New York Times Magazine, l999.
‘The Rayburn and the Rose’, in My Favorite Plant, ed. Jamaica Kincaid, New York,, l998.
‘Pretty Maids All In a Row’, in Oxford Originals An Anthology of Writing fromLady Margaret Hall 1879-2001 Ed. Stacy Marking (Oxford, 2001)
‘The Birthday Party’, in Summer Magic, eds. Sarah Brown and Gil McNeil (London, 2003)
‘Out of the Burning House’, for series ‘What Becomes of the Broken-Hearted?’ BBC Radio 4, April 2003
‘Worm Wrangler’, Heat (Sydney, 2003)
Opera Libretti
The Queen of Sheba's Legs Children's Opera libretto. Music by Julian Grant. English National Opera: Baylis Programme, London, l992.
In the House of Crossed Desires. Music by John Woolrich. Cheltenham Music Festival/Music Theatre Wales. l996. Published Faber, London, l996
Stories for Children
The Crack in the Teacup Britain in the twentieth century (London, l979)
The Impossible Day; The Impossible Night; The Impossible Bath; The Impossible Rocket (London, l982-3)
The Wobbly Tooth (London, l984)
Art Exhibitions
Exhibition Selector, BT New Contemporaries, 1992
Curator: The Inner Eye, exhibition Manchester City Art Galleries, Brighton
Museum, Swansea Museum, Dulwich Picture Gallery, 1996-1997.
Judge, Turner Prize, l998.
Curator (with Sarah Bakewell) Metamorphing: Transformation in science, art and mythology. A Wellcome Trust Exhibition for the Science Museum London, 16 Sept 2002 - 16 Feb 2003. Catalogue, written with Sarah Bakewell, published by New Scientist. Conference, Metamorphing, 12 Feb. 2003 at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London. See www.wellcome.ac.uk/en/metamorphing
Judge, Jerwood Drawing Prize, 2002
Curatorial advisor on Eyes, Lies and Illusions, Hayward Gallery, London , October 6 2004 - Jan 5 2005
Curator, Only Make-Believe: Ways of Playing, Compton Verney, Warwickshire, March 25 - May 2005
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Art Criticism includes:
'In the Garden of Delights: Helen Chadwick's "Of Mutability"' in Helen Chadwick (exhibition catalogue), London, l986, reprinted in Helen Chadwick, Enfleshings, London, l989.
'Eve, the Serpent and Death (Hans Baldung Grien)', FMR, 31 (March-April l988).
Introduction to Frans Masereel, The City. London, 1988.
'Personification and the Idealization of the Feminine', in Medievalism in American Culture, ed. Bernard Rosenthal and Paul E. Szarmach. Binghamton, New York, l989, 85-111.
Maggi Hambling Catalogue , Serpentine Gallery, London, l989
Introduction, Paula Rego, Nursery Rhymes, l989, l994.
'Signs of the Fifth Element', Catalogue The Tree of Life, South Bank Centre Touring Exhibition, l989.
'Leonora Carrington's Spirit Bestiary; or, The Art of Playing Make-Believe' , Catalogue, Leonora Carrington London, l991.
Lucian Freud, New York Times Magazine, l992
Peter Randall Page, Catalogue Henry Moore Centre, Leeds, l992.
Richard Wentworth Catalogue, Serpentine Gallery, London, l993; version translated as ‘Le parti pris des choses’ in catalogue to Richard Wentworth exhibition,, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Calais (22 July-9 October 1994)
'Bush Natural', Parkett No 27
'Penis Plenty Phallic Lack', Parkett No 33
'In the Charnel House of Love: Marlene Dumas', Parkett No 38
'The Searcher in the Woods', in David Nash (Omaha, l994)
'Secret Ceremonies of Innocence: Zarina Bhimji', in Zarina Bhimji (Cambridge, l995)
'The Rebel at the Heart of the Joker: Bobby Baker', in Take a Peek (Royal Festival Hall, London, June l995), in Performance Art: Into the 90's , A & D, October l995; reprinted in ‘Bobby Baker: The rebel at the heart of the Joker’ in A split second of Paradise, eds. Nicky Childs and Jeni Walwin (London, l996)
'Waxworks and Wonderlands', in Lynne Cooke and Peter Wollen, Visual Display Culture Beyond Appearances, New York, l995; another version in Printer's Devil, Fall, l995, translated as ‘Museo delle Cere e Paese delle Meraviglie; l’arte dell’imbalsamazione come simulazione della vita e sconfitta della morte,’ Prometeo, Anno 16, No. 62.
'Soul Stealing, Shadow-Catching ' 2 parts, Tate , Summer-Autumn, l995; another version:'Lost Souls, Stolen Shadows', Raritan, Fall, l995..
‘Shearings’, in Ann Hamilton: Tropos (New York, 1995)
‘Le vil et le vigoureux, la toison et le poil: des cheveux et leur langage’ in masculinfeminin, le sexe de l’art, eds.Marie-Laure Bernadac et Jean-Claude Barnabé (Paris 1995); reprinted ‘Fur and fleece and the language of hair’ in Haare - Obsession und Kunst, Museum Bellerive, Zurich (7 March-21 May 2000)
Essay in Helen Chadwick Stilled Lives (Edinburgh, l996)
Essay in David Nash: Forms into Time (London, l996)
The Inner Eye: Art Beyond the Visible. Catalogue of exhibition, Manchester, Brighton, Swansea, Dulwich Picture Gallery London, l996-97
‘Megan Jenkinson: Making Her Way Through the Palace of Memory’, in Under the Aegis : ‘The Virtues’ by Megan Jenkinson. Auckland, l997
‘Making Secret Visions Visible’, PN Review 1997
‘At the bottom of the garden’ Victorian Fairy Painting (Royal Academy of Arts), Victorian Fairy painting , Jane Martineau, ed. Merrell Hollberton/Royal Academy of Arts, in TLS, December 5, 1997
‘Angelic Visions’, RA Quarterly, Winter 1998.
‘A renaissance of repugnance,’ review of Master of death: the lifeless art of Pierre Remiet, Michael Camille; Medieval death: Ritual and representation, Paul Binski; King Death: the Black death and its aftermath in late-medieval England, Colin Platt, THES, July 5, 1998
‘Playacting, Chimaera and the late grotesque’ in Veronica’s revenge, ed.Elizabeth Janus (Zurich, 1998)
Preface to 20 Maresfield Gardens: A Guide to The Freud Museum (London, l998)
‘The Shadow of Young Girls in Flower’, introduction to Virginia Rodier, Clementina Lady Hawarden (New York, l999)
‘Desire Paths’, in Granite Song : Sculpture Peter Randall-Page (Devon Books, l999)
‘Family enfer’: review of Louise Bourgeois, recent works, Serpentine Gallery, and Louise Bourgeois ‘Deconstruction of tthe Father, reconstruction of the father,’ Writings and Interviews, eds. Marie-Laure Bernadac, Hans-Ulrich Obrist, TLS, l999
‘I will give you a monument’ (debate on Trafalgar Square’s empty plinth, from talk given to Royal Society of Arts) New Statesman, 21 February, 2000, p. 43-44
‘Adventures in the way we see,’ review of Colour and Meaning: Art, Science and Symbolism, John Gage, in THES, December 17, 1999
‘Nine Turns around the Spindle: The Turbine Towers of Louise Bourgeois’, Louise Bourgeois (London, 2000)
‘Ready or Not Here I Come!’, in Janine Antoni (Zurich, 2000)
‘Gateways of the Primordial’, introduction to Sculpture at Goodwood 2001-2.
‘”Ourself behind Ourself, Concealed”: Ethereal Whispers from the Dark Side’, in Tony Oursler: The Influence Machine, London: Artangel, New York: Public Art Fund, 2002.
‘Pavane for Her Wildwoman Symmetries: Francesco Clemente’s The Book of the Sea, catalogue essay, London and New York: Gagosian Gallery, 2002
Catalogue note to The Jerwood Drawing Prize 2002.
‘Ethereal Body: The Quest for Ectoplasm’, in Spiritus, catalogue of exhibition at Magasin3,
Stockholm, 2003; reprinted Cabinet (New York), Fall/Winter 2003-4.
‘“An artist’s dreamland”: Jane Eyre through Paula Rego’s eyes’, in
Paula Rego: Jane Eyre (Enitharmon Press, London, 2003)
‘Anish Kapoor: The Perforate Self, or Nought Is Not Nought’, Parkett, Spring, 2004.
‘ Oracles & Treacle’, in catalogue of Joan Jonas: Works, Queens Museum of Art, Queens New York, December 2003.
‘Medusae: Dorothy Cross/Tom Cross’, in Experiment: conversations in art and science. Eds. Bergit Arends and Davina Thackara (London:The Wellcome Trust, 2004).
‘Here comes the Bogeyman’: Juan Munoz and the Late Grotesque’, in Robert Lehman Lectures on
Contemporary Art , No. 2: Dia Art Foundation, New York, eds. Lynne Cooke and Karen Kelly, with
Bettina Funcke (New York, 2004).
‘Metamorfosis fantasticas: frutos prohibidos y otros mundos en “El Jardin de las delicias” de Hieronymus Bosch’, in Historias Inmortales (Barcelona: Galaxia Gutenberg, 2002
‘Psychic Time, or, The Metamorphoses of Narcissus’, in Chris Bucklow: This I that is Not I (catalogue, London: British Museum and Wordsworth Trust, 2004)
Introduction to and A Short Dictionary of the Invisible, in catalogue of The Inner Eye : Art Beyond the Visible. Catalogue of exhibition, Manchester, Brighton, Swansea, Dulwich Picture Gallery (London, l996-97)
Art essays to be collected in The Symbol Gives Rise to Thought, ed. Robert Violette, Violette Editions, forthcoming, 2008
Film scripts
Joan of Arc (Directed by Gina Newson), Channel 4, London, l984.
Cinderella (Directed by Melissa Llewelyn-Davies), BBC 2, London, l986.
Imaginary Women (Directed by Gina Newson), Channel 4, London, l986.
'Tell Me More', (drama) Channel 4, London, 1991.
Books, Articles and Interviews with MW
Nicholas Tredell, Conversations with Critics (Manchester, l994)
Lisa Hopkins, 'An interview with Marina Warner' Sheffield Thursday No 4/5, Autumn 1994, 81-95.
Mary Condé, 'Finding a Voice for Martha: Marina Warner's “Mary Takes the Better Part” in Journal of the Short Story in English, no 22 Summer l994, Presses de l'Université d'Angers
Chantal Zabus, ' Spinning a Yarn with Marina Warner', in Kunapipi: Post Colonial Women's Writing Vol XVI No. 1, l994, 519-529.
Richard Todd, 'Marina Warner', Post-war literatures in English, September 1995.
Richard Kearney, ed. States of Mind, Dialogues with contemporary thinkers on the European mind (Dublin, l995)
Hopkins, Lisa, 'Revisiting The Tempest: Marina Warner's Indigo', Sheffield Thursday, Summer 1995
Richard Todd, Consuming Fictions The Booker Prize and Fiction in Britain Today (London, l996)
Laurence Coupe, Myth (London, 1997)
Tobias Doering, ‘Chains of Memory- English-Caribbean Cross-Currents in Marina Warner’s Indigo and David Dabydeen’s “Turner”, in Across the Lines Intertextuality and Transcultural Communications in the New Literatures in English. Ed. Wolfgang Klooss. Cross/Cultures 32 ASNEL Papers 3. l998.
Kari Boyd McBride, ‘Marina Warner’, British Novelists since l960, ed. Merritt Moseley (Columbia, South Carolina, l999)
Steven Connor, The English Novel in History 1950-1995. London, l996, pp. 186-198.
Laurence Coupe,’The Comedy of Terrors: Reading Myth with Marina Warner’, PN Review 128: 52-55.
See entries in The Cambridge Guide to Women’s Writing in English , ed. Lorna Sage (Cambridge, l999).
See entry in Entry in David Macey, The Penguin Dictionary of Critical Theory (London, 2000)
Jane Aikins Haslett, Marina Warner: Feminist Mythographer (Ph.D.Thesis Edmonton, Alberta, 2001)
Daniela Corona, “C’Era due voltex” La narrativa realistica di Marina Warner (Palermo, 2002)
Daniela Babos, Postmodern Issues in Marina Warner’s Indigo and The Lost Father, Cluj-Napoca (Rumania), 2002
Sanda Berce and Monika Varga, Intertextuality As a Form of Virtual Reality (Cluj-Napoca: Editura Dacia, 2002)
Laurence Coupe, Marina Warner (Writers and Their Work, series published by British Council , editor Isobel Armstrong), 2006.
See also: www.marinawarner.com
Other Activities
Management Committee, National Council for One-Parent Families l986-1996
Literature Panel, Arts Council of Great Britain , l993-7
Executive Committee, Charter 88, l992-7
London Library, twice served
Patron, Hypatia Trust, 1998-
Trustee, Artangel Trust, l998-2004
Vice-President, National Council for One-Parent Families, 2000-
Trustee, Open Democracy, 2001-3
Committee PEN, London, 2001-2004
Patron, Wonderful Beast, 2001-
* *Patron, Reprieve, 2002-
Patron, Medical Foundation for the Victims of Torture, 2002-
Patron, Society for Story Telling, 2003-
Trustee, George Orwell Society, 2003-
Patron, Hosking Houses Trust, 2006-
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