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Sex, drugs and cucumber sandwiches: How Oscar Wilde's Plays Helped to Create the Modern Rebel. A talk by by Kate Hext, on Friday 22nd November 2024. Book your place for £7 now. …ssell-design-museum.arttickets.org.uk/gordon-russell…

I read this (from Toril Moi) with interest & amusement. But if we want to imagine the new—I do!—then we desperately need to stop talking about the same 3 books over & over. I promise that lots of critics ARE doing new things. Plz read & review their work! academic.oup.com/alh/article/36…

This morning in Exeter; this afternoon in Oxford ♥️

Golds, purples, pinks: running on Exeter quay this evening

Happy end of a low, dishonest year, from me and lovely ⁦Kate Hext⁩

Deadline upcoming for @MSiA 2025! Come join us in beautiful Seoul this June.

New edition of Wilde’s plays — social comedies and Salome — edited by me 🎉 Out with Oxford Classics on 13 March. Please pick up a copy and recommend it. With thanks to rowenamezzo copyeditor extraordinaire and Aidan Foster-Carter the dedicatee of this edition

On St Valentine’s Day I’m revising an article about essays that are love letters in disguise. It starts with Audre Lorde, bell hooks and A.V. Marraccini and ends with Anne Carson, via John Guillory ♥️♥️♥️ #criticism #essay #essaywriting #annecarson #loveessays #lovehe

Come see The Importance of Being Earnest in its fab National Theatre production: ‘as live’, 2pm Sunday 23rd Curzon Mayfair followed by Q&A with Gyles Brandreth Darcy Sullivan and me(!) All thanks to the OscarWildeSociety Expect pink glitz, fun and epigrammatic insights. curzon.com/ticketing/seat…

Wildeans in London on Sunday afternoon may want to join the Oscar Wilde Society for a viewing of Earnest, with a Q&A featuring Gyles Brandreth and Kate Hext, author of Wilde in the Dream Factory. Booking here: curzon.com/ticketing/seat… National Theatre Live OscarWildeSociety Kate Hext Gyles Brandreth

My essay in this week’s The TLS on a magical, secret Devonshire garden

New Oscar Wilde edition, published today Oxford Classics New and expansive Notes, Bibliography, and Introduction with sections on each of the plays. Written with academic rigour, love, and a sense of fun. global.oup.com/academic/produ…

I reviewed "Wilde in the Dream Factory" by Kate Hext for Society. It's a cracking book, especially if you're into Oscar Wilde, decadent Hollywood, screwball comedy, aesthete gangsters, and the great "barroom confabulator" Ben Hecht. link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Why has "The Importance of Being Earnest" proven so enduringly popular with audiences? Kate Hext, editor of our new edition, addresses this question and more in this recent talk with Gyles Brandreth, hosted by National Theatre and OscarWildeSociety. Watch now: oxford.ly/41SJCrq

Kate Hext (Kate Hext): Eerie encounters, atmospheres and psychological states the-tls.co.uk/regular-featur…

🎉 Our Oxford Handbook, currently being copyedited by the incomparable rowenamezzo who I hope will eat champagne-dipped strawberries throughout.

A wonderful talk last night on garden swimming pools Garden Museum Garden Museum Learn by its director, Christopher Woodward, featuring fabulous gardens that include the Italian Garden, and featuring my research alongside that of other garden researchers :) I learnt so much.

Get closer to Oscar Wilde's classic play "The Importance of Being Earnest" by watching our edition editor Kate Hext and Gyles Brandreth in conversation, hosted by National Theatre and OscarWildeSociety: oxford.ly/42wNBsu

Mandated by gorgeous weather, shitty week & lovely Kate Hext ❤️