Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies

Academic Staff

Professor Marina Warner

E-mailmswarner (non Essex users should add @essex.ac.uk)
Telephone3073 (non Essex users should add 01206-87 to the beginning of this number)
Room5A.109
Websitehttp://www.marinawarner.com/
Research interests
  • The Arabian Nights
  • Fairytales from seventeenth century literature onwards
  • Contemporary retellings of myth and fairytale
  • Autobiofiction and memory mapping
PublicationsLink to publications for Marina Warner
Additional informationMarina would particularly welcome PhD applicants wishing to explore the following areas: fairy-tale and its presence in literature and culture (with special interest in the French and Italian taste for Oriental tales and in contemporary interpretations and uses of magic); and the exploration of the inter-relationships between memory and fiction in the writing of place, either as a creative writing or artistic project and/or as a work of literary analysis.

Current PhD Students:

Ros GreenWill Houstoun,  Stefanie SavvaBarney Samson, Nesreen Salem

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