Marina Warner

University of St. Andrew's

Scotland; Birkbeck College

University of London

Magic and Metamorphosis

2003-2004: Fall

Marina Warner is a novelist, historian and critic. She has written award-winning studies of mythology and fairy tales, including Alone of All Her Sex: The Myth and the Cult of the Virgin Mary (l976), From the Beast to the Blonde (1994), and No Go the Bogeyman: Scaring, Lulling and Making Mock (1998). In l994 she gave the Reith Lectures on the BBC, on the theme of Managing Monsters: Six Myths of Our Time. In l996, she curated The Inner Eye: Art Beyond The Visible, a touring exhibition, and in 2002, the exhibition Metamorphing, for Wellcome Trust at the Science Museum, London. In the autumn of 2001, she was a Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, where she gave the Clarendon Lectures (Fantastic Metamorphoses; Other Worlds, Oxford University Press, 2002). Her most recent novel, The Leto Bundle, was published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux. In l999, she gave the Tanner Lectures at Yale on the subject of Spirit Visions, and she is developing themes raised there with her current research. She is a Visiting Professor at Birkbeck College, University of London, and St. Andrew's University, Scotland, and was recently a Guest Professor at Paris 13. Her collected essays will be coming out in the summer of 2003, under the title Signs & Wonders.