Marina Warner | |
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 Warner in 2017 | |
| Born | Marina Sarah Warner 9 November 1946 Paddington, Middlesex, England |
| Occupation | Historian, mythographer, novelist, lecturer, professor |
| Alma mater | Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford |
| Notable awards | Mythopoeic Award Rose Mary Crawshay Prize National Book Critics Circle Award (Criticism) Holberg Prize British Academy Medal |
| Spouse |
Johnny Dewe Mathews
(m. 1981; div. 1997)Graeme Segal |
| Website | |
| marinawarner | |
Dame Marina Sarah Warner, CH, DBE, FRSL, FBA (born 9 November 1946) is an English historian, mythographer, art critic, novelist and short story writer. She is known for her many non-fiction books relating to feminism and myth. She has written for many publications, including The London Review of Books, the New Statesman, Sunday Times, and Vogue.[1] She has been a visiting professor, given lectures and taught on the faculties of many universities.[2]
She resigned from her position as professor in the Department of Literature, Film and Theatre Studies at the University of Essex in 2014, sharply criticising moves towards "for-profit business model" universities in the UK,[3][4][5] and is now Professor of English and Creative Writing at Birkbeck, University of London.[6] In 2017, she was elected president of the Royal Society of Literature (RSL), the first time the role has been held by a woman since the founding of the RSL in 1820.[7][8][9] She has been a Distinguished Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, since 2019.[10]
In 2015, having received the prestigious Holberg Prize, Warner decided to use the award to start the Stories in Transit project, a series of workshops bringing international artists, writers and other creatives together with young migrants living in Palermo, Sicily.[11][12]
- ^ Zeljka Marosevic, "Critical Thinking #5: Marina Warner", Prospect, 8 May 2014.
- ^ "Other activities" Archived 24 April 2018 at the Wayback Machine, MarinaWarner.com; accessed 1 January 2015.
- ^ Marina Warner, "Why I Quit", London Review of Books, 11 September 2014.
- ^ Marina Warner, "Learning My Lesson",London Review of Books, 19 March 2015.
- ^ Jonathan Brown, "Marina Warner compares UK university managers to 'Chinese communist enforcers'", The Independent, 3 September 2014.
- ^ "Celebrated author and academic Marina Warner joins Birkbeck", bbk.ac.uk, 29 September 2014.
- ^ "Royal Society of Literature elects Marina Warner as its first female President", Press Release, The Royal Society of Literature, 2017.
- ^ "First woman boss for RSL", BookBrunch, 17 March 2017.
- ^ "Professor Marina Warner elected first female President of the Royal Society of Literature", Birkbeck, University of London, 6 April 2017.
- ^ "Professor Dame Marina Warner". All Souls College, University of Oxford. Retrieved 3 June 2021.
- ^ "Stories in Transit, People". Retrieved 10 June 2021.
- ^ "The Holberg Prize Names British Storyteller and Fairytale Critic Marina Warner as 2015 Laureate", Press Release, Oxford University Press, 12 March 2015.