Marina Warner#
Photo: Edward Park
| Membership Number: | 4228 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LITERARY & THEATRICAL STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2016 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.marinawarner.com |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2015 - present Professor of English and Creative Writing, Birkbeck College, University of London
- 2004 - 2015 University of Essex, Professor of Literature, Film and Theatre Studies
Fields of Scholarship
- Mythography
- Cultural history
- Popular culture
- Folklore
- Creative writing
- English literature
- Comparative literature
Honours and Awards
- 2015 The Holberg Prize 2015
- 2014 Italian Academy, Columbia University Honorary Fellowship
- 2013 Sheik Zayed Book Award
- 2013 Truman Capote Prize for Literary Criticism
- 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award
- 2005 Commendatore dell' Ordine della Stella di Solidarieta (Italy)
- 2004 Aby Warburg Prize
- 2000 Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (France)
- 1989 Commonwealth Writers' Prize (Eurasia)
- Numerous Honorary degrees
