Sos Eltis

{{Short description|British academic}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox academic | image = File:Sos Eltis.jpg | imagesize = | honorific_prefix = | name = Sos Eltis | birth_date = | birth_place = United Kingdom | death_date = | death_place = | education = MA, DPhil | alma_mater = University of Oxford | discipline = English literature | workplaces = Brasenose College, Oxford | spouse = Mark Haddon | children = 2 }}

'''Sos Eltis''' is an English author. She is a fellow and tutor in English at Brasenose College, Oxford.<ref name="BNC">{{cite web |url=https://www.bnc.ox.ac.uk/about-brasenose/150-academic-staff/508-dr-sos-eltis |title=Dr Sos Eltis |work=Academic Staff |publisher=Brasenose College, Oxford |accessdate=2017-09-07 }}</ref> She is a nineteenth- and twentieth-century specialist, with a special interest in theatre.<ref name="BNC"/>

Eltis is the author of ''Revising Wilde: Society and Subversion in the Plays of Oscar Wilde'',<ref name="wilde1">{{cite journal |title=Book Reviews: Revising Wilde: Society and Subversion in the Plays of Oscar Wilde |journal=Modern Philology |year=1998|authorlink1=Stuart Tave |last=Tave |first=Stuart M. |volume=96 |issue=1 |pages=129–134 |doi=10.1086/492734 }}</ref><ref name="wilde2">{{cite journal |title=Review: Revising Wilde: Society and Subversion in the Plays of Oscar Wilde |journal=Victorian Studies |year=1997 |last=Powell |first=Kerry |volume=40 |issue=4 |pages=739–742 |jstor=3828787 }}</ref> which has been described as "a radical re-examination of the plays of Oscar Wilde", and of ''Acts of Desire: Women and Sex on Stage 1800–1930''.<ref name="desire1">{{cite news |last=Bradley |first=Hayley Jayne |url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/books/acts-of-desire-women-and-sex-onstage-1800-1930-by-sos-eltis/2007554.article |title=Acts of Desire: Women and Sex on Stage 1800-1930, by Sos Eltis |work=Times Higher Education |date=2013-09-26 |accessdate=2017-09-07 }}</ref>

Eltis is married to the English novelist Mark Haddon, author of ''The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time'',<ref name="Haddon">{{cite news |last=Kellaway |first=Kate |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2003/apr/27/fiction.guardianchildrensfictionprize2003 |title=Autistic differences |work=The Observer |date=2003-04-27 |accessdate=2017-09-07 }}</ref><ref name="Haddon2">{{cite news |last=Crompton |first=Simon |url=https://www.thetimes.com/culture/books/article/inside-a-curious-mind-wcpgl8st0cz |title=Inside a curious mind |work=The Times |date=2006-09-23 |access-date=2017-09-07 }}</ref> which is dedicated to her.

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==External links== * [https://www.bnc.ox.ac.uk/about-brasenose/150-academic-staff/1765-sos-eltis Dr Sos Eltis: Interviewed] * [http://www.english.ox.ac.uk/people/dr-sos-eltis Faculty webpage] * [https://www.bnc.ox.ac.uk/person/professor-sos-eltis/ College webpage]

{{DEFAULTSORT:Eltis, Sos}} Category:Living people Category:Fellows of Brasenose College, Oxford Category:Year of birth missing (living people) Category:British non-fiction writers Category:British women writers Category:Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford Category:Alumni of St John's College, Oxford