Phantasmagoria: Spirit Visions, Metaphors, and Media Into the Twenty-first Century

Marina Warner's studies of mythology and fairy tales include Monuments and Maidens: The Allegory of the Female Form (l985), and No Go the Bogeyman: Scaring, Lulling and Making Mock (1998, winner of the Rosemary Crawshay Prize). Fantastic Metamorphoses, Other Worlds (Clarendon Lectures), waspublished in 2002, and her essays on literature and culture are collected in Signs and Wonders. Her novels include In a Dark Wood (l977) and The Lost Father (l988), which was short-listed for the Booker Prize and won a Commonwealth Writer's Prize. She has also published two collections of shortstories.She was created Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French in 2002, and Commendatore by the Italians in 2005. She was awarded the Warburg Prize in Germany in 2004, and is an Honorary Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford and a Visiting Professor at St. Andrew's University, Scotland.She is Professor of Literature at the University of Essex. In 2005 she was elected a Fellow of the British Academy.