Lectures & Teaching

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- )

Invited Lectures

Reith Lecturer, BBC, l994

Tanner Lecturer, Yale University, l999

Clarendon Lecturer, Oxford, 2001

Robb Lecturer, University of Auckland, 2004

Single lectures include:

John Coffin Lecture, University of London, l997

The Perrot-Warrick Lecture at Trinity, l998

Carpenter Lecturer, Institute of the Visual Arts, Harvard University, 2003

Alan Marre Maccabaeus Lecture, University College London, 2005: 'Stranger Magid: The Psychic Geography of Darkness'

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.

Other Educational 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, HoskingHouses Trust, 2006-