Associate Professor at the University of Exeter and Visiting Professor at Ewha Womans University. Aspiring aesthete, distance runner, day-dream believer.
Joined June 2012
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6 Jan 2024
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featuring Oscar, Salome, Dorian, Roscoe Arbuckle, Ernst Lubitsch, Mae West, Cary Grant, Tallulah Bankhead, Laird Cregar and moreā¦ in a new cultural history of how Wilde helped create Hollywood
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Apr 13
Ronald Firbank: A Centenary Symposium, at The Warburg Institute on 22nd May.
Please come hear #AlanHollinghurst @becimay @michaelscaines @dickon_edwards #ellishanson #matthewingleby @QMULsed @KristinMMahoney
And moreā¦!
@Warburg_News
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Apr 13
Ronald Firbank: A Centenary Symposium, at The Warburg Institute on 22nd May.
Please come hear #AlanHollinghurst @becimay @michaelscaines @dickon_edwards #ellishanson #matthewingleby @QMULsed @KristinMMahoney
And moreā¦!
@Warburg_News
eventbrite.com/e/ronald-firbā¦
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Jan 7
I reviewed two curious, thought-provoking collections of late-19thC and early-20thC plays in @TheTLS
The issue features an ace review by Timothy Brook of @AndrewGrahamDixās Vermeer, Maria Margaronis on Into the Woods and two poignant poems by Alan Jenkins. Check it out!
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Thanks to @washingreview for featuring my double review on Aesthetic and Decadent plays in the current @TheTLS
Today in the WRB, we feature:
ā¢ @Kate_Hext in @TheTLS on two collections of Aesthetic and Decadent plays
ā¢ @murielzagha in @EngelsbergIdeas on Brigitte Bardot (RIP)
ā¢ @CarlosNYT in @nytimes on bad podcast questions
ā¢ @continetti in @WSJ on the legacy of the Beatles
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Kate Hext retweeted
9 Sep 2025
Published today. Iām in there somewhere, in distinguished company. Indispensable if not, alas, inexpensiveā¦global.oup.com/academic/prodā¦
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16 Aug 2025
Reminded, again, of this passage from John Berryman's "Recovery."
ALT I don't know what the hell happened all that summer. I was done in, mentally. I wrote nothing, I read nothing. I spent a pot of money, not being used to money, I forget on what, now. I felt dazed.
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10 Aug 2025
So happy to be included in the CQ special issue on Chaplin, where Iām writing about his eyes. Inspired by Devon monopoly, the seaside, and the brilliant @becimay this cover image came about, taken by my son.
7 Aug 2025
Cover image for our Chaplin special issue for Critical Quarterly. The artist: brilliant Rufus Hext.
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2 Jul 2025
South Devon garden lovers and history enthusiasts! Come to our talk series this summer ā„ļø
First speaker is the director of @GardenMuseumLDN Christopher Woodward
Tickets here:
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4 May 2025
Mandated by gorgeous weather, shitty week & lovely @Kate_Hext ā¤ļø
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9 Apr 2025
A wonderful talk last night on garden swimming pools @GardenMuseumLDN @GardenMusLearn 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.
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Kate Hext (@Kate_Hext): Eerie encounters, atmospheres and psychological states
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9 Apr 2025
š Our Oxford Handbook, currently being copyedited by the incomparable @rowenamezzo who I hope will eat champagne-dipped strawberries throughout.
7 Apr 2025
It does feel a little decadent to be dipping strawberries into a champagne cocktail, but then I have been immersed in the world of the wonderful Oscar Wilde recently with work, so something must have rubbed off!ā¦ š@Kate_Hext
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18 Mar 2025
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.
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13 Mar 2025
New Oscar Wilde edition, published today @OWC_Oxford
New and expansive Notes, Bibliography, and Introduction with sections on each of the plays. Written with academic rigour, love, and a sense of fun.
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8 Mar 2025
My essay in this weekās @TheTLS on a magical, secret Devonshire garden
'If high walls are the first hint that Great Ambrook had secrets to keep, then Rolfeās fictionalization deepens the intrigue.'
Kate Hext (@Kate_Hext) on the mysterious world of an unusual English garden
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20 Feb 2025
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/seats/Mā¦ @NTLive @OscarWildeUK @Kate_Hext @GylesB1
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16 Feb 2025
Come see The Importance of Being Earnest in its fab National Theatre production: āas liveā, 2pm Sunday 23rd @CurzonMayfair followed by Q&A with @GylesB1 @SirDarcy and me(!) All thanks to the @OscarWildeUK
Expect pink glitz, fun and epigrammatic insights.
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14 Feb 2025
On St Valentineās Day Iām revising an article about essays that are love letters in disguise. It starts with Audre Lorde, bell hooks and @saintsoftness and ends with Anne Carson, via John Guillory ā„ļøā„ļøā„ļø #criticism #essay #essaywriting #annecarson #loveessays #lovehe
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