Marina Warner
Marina Warner is a feminist SF scholar and novelist, focusing on fairyt ales, horror, and the supernatural.
- Biography: "Marina Warner has written fiction, criticism, and history; her studies of mythology and fairy tales include Alone of All Her Sex: The Myth and the Cult of the Virgin Mary (l976), Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism (l982), Monuments & Maidens: The Allegory of the Female Form (l985), From the Beast to the Blonde (1994) and No Go the Bogeyman: Scaring, Lulling and Making Mock (1998). In 1994 she gave the Reith Lectures on the theme of “Managing Monsters: Six Myths of Our Time”. Recent lectures and a collections of essays have been published in Fantastic Metamorphoses; Other Worlds (Clarendon Lectures, 2001) and Signs & Wonders (2003). Phantasmagoria: Spirit Visions, Metaphors, and Media (OUP), a study of ghosts, phantasms and technology, appeared in 2006. She has also published fiction (novels, short stories, opera libretti) inspired by myth and folklore, including The Lost Father (1988), Indigo (1992), The Leto Bundle (2000). She has taught and lectured widely, and curated exhibitions, including Metamorphing (Science Museum, 2002), and Only Make-Believe: Ways of Playing (Compton Verney, 2005); and her essays on art will be published in 2010. She is currently writing a new novel, and researching a study of the idea of the orient, Stranger Magic, about the impact of the Arabian Nights. She is Professor of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies at the University of Essex; in 2005 the British Academy elected her a Fellow."[1]