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John Constable (RA), 'Fishing with a net on the lake in Wivenhoe Park', drawing, 1816. Museum no.D.233-1888
(See Memory Maps online exhibition at V&A Museum here)
TEACHING AND LECTURING
Marina Warner is Professor in the Department of Literature, Film and Theatre Studies, University of Essex, where she teaches the course 'The Transformations of Fairytale' for third year undergraduates.
She also teaches MA courses in Creative Writing: a course on The Tale, and on the writing of place, in Memory Maps, a collaboration between the Victoria and Albert Museum and the University of Essex. She is also contributing to the new course, Wild Writing: Literature and the Environment.
She is Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Department of Humanities at Queen Mary, University of London.
The Royal College of Art, London has appointed her Visiting Professor to the Department of Animation.
She is visiting professor at NYU Abu Dhabi from January 2012.
Marina Warner is one of the organisers of Smatterings: Why Languages Matter, which takes place on 26- 27 March at Cumberland Lodge.
This conference will explore a broad range of the cultural aspects of language acquisition and language use. We start off with a mother tongue, a ‘first’ language; some of us start off with two. Does knowing a second (or third) language give the speaker something more than a practical bonus? How does knowing another language give us a different perspective on our first one, the one that is natural to us, by showing that it is not the only way of thinking and telling? How does bilingualism, native or acquired, affect cultural identity and cultural understanding? What does this mean for the role of translation in key services, and in popular culture? We live in a truly multilingual society, but how can we overcome the perceived difficulty of multilingualism? Is foreign language education impeded by an unrealistic ideal of fluency? Should the idea of ‘passable Chinese’ or ‘a smattering of Urdu’ be reevaluated?
The conference is organised in partnership with the British Academy and in association with the British Comparative Literature Association. More details here.
MW contributed 'English that's good enough: The mastery of English is not the intimidating ideal any non-native should seek: a smattering will do' for The Guardian Comment section, 14th March 2012. The article can be found here.
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POSTS HELD
Visiting Professor, NYU Abu Dhabi 2012.
Visiting Fellow, The Italian Academy, Columbia University, New York, 2003.
Visiting Professor, Université de Paris XIII, Spring, 2003.
Visiting Fellow, The Italian Academy, Columbia University, New York, 2003.
Visiting Professor, Dept of English, St Andrew’s University, Scotland 2000-
Visiting Professor, Dept of Visual Studies, Birkbeck College, University of London, 1999 –2004.
Visiting Professor, Stanford University, 2000.
Visiting Fellow, All Souls College. Oxford, 2001.
Visiting Fellow Commoner, Trinity College, Cambridge, 1998.
Visiting Fellow, Humanities Research Centre, Warwick, 1999.
Visiting Mellon Professor in the History of Art, Univ. of Pittsburgh, Fall 1997.
Whitney J. Oates Short-Term Fellow, Council of the Humanities, Princeton, Fall 1996.
Visiting Writer, Banff Centre for the Arts, Summer 1996.
Visiting Lecturer (to the late Edward Said’s Center for the Humanities), Columbia University, 1996.
Visiting Professor of Women’s Studies, University of Ulster, 1994-5.
Visiting Lecturer in Creative Writing, Dept of English, University of Reading, 1993.
Visiting Fellow of the British Film Institute, 1993.
Tinbergen Professor, Erasmus University Rotterdam, 1991.
Getty Scholar at the Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, 1987-8.
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SINGLE LECTURES
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.
MW has 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.
Alan Marre Maccabaeus Lecture: ‘Stranger Magic: The Psychic Geography of Darkness’, University College London, 2005
Carpenter Lecturer, Institute of the Visual Arts, Harvard University, 2003
The Perrot-Warrick Lecture at Trinity, 1998
John Coffin Lecture, University of London, 1997
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INVITED LECTURES
Robb Lecturer, University of Auckland, 2004
Clarendon Lecturer, Oxford, 2001
Tanner Lecturer, Yale University, 1999
BBC Radio 4 Reith Lecturer: ‘Managing Monsters’, 1994
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For a full Curriculum Vitae please see here
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