Dr Sarah Wingrove
About
Biography
Sarah Wingrove is an interdisciplinary scholar, working across literary studies, sociology and histories of sexuality and gender, and specialising in lesbian and queer studies from the late eighteenth century onwards. She recently earned her PhD from the School of Literature and Languages after successfully defending her thesis, .
She has previously studied in the Film Studies departments at the 糖心Vlog and King's College London.
Sarah has contributed her research to the Journal of Lesbian Studies, Modern and Contemporary France, and the Women鈥檚 History Network. She additionally supports the endeavours of and the Sex, Gender and Sexualities Research Centre.
She has provided research-led teaching to undergraduate and postgraduate students of English Literature and Sociology, and has presented her research at national and international conferences including the British Sociological Association, the Anne Lister Society, and Lesbian Lives. She is skilled in conducting archival research, autoethnographic analysis, and conducting and coding semi-structured interviews. Sarah has additionally facilitated work on the projects, and Navigating Masculinity among Heterosexual Men Who Dance with Men alongside her own projects.
Areas of specialism
My qualifications
(PTY at Warner Brothers Production TV UK.)
Affiliations and memberships
News
In the media
ResearchResearch interests
- Lesbian and queer literary figures
- Literary figure communities
- Fandom behaviours
- Queer pilgrimage practices
- Mobilities and gender.
Conference papers
British Sociological Association (23rd April 2025), University of Manchester
鈥淣egotiating Heteromasculinity: Straight Men Who Dance with Men (MDM) in UK Swing
Anne Lister Society Meeting (4th April 2025), Northwestern University
鈥溾榣eft Ann in the ladies room鈥: Negotiating the Public Sphere and Anne Lister鈥檚 (and Ann Walker鈥檚) Train Travel鈥.&苍产蝉辫;
Also presented at the Railways in Literature seminar for the Institute of Historical Research (29th May 2025).
Anne Lister Research Summit (1st February 2025), Packed with Potential
鈥淩eading for Pleasure: Sexuality, Morality, and the Erotic Literature of Anne Lister鈥 with Professor Deborah Kamen and Jann Kraus. Available at:
Anne Lister Society Meeting (6th April 2024), Northwestern University
鈥淚nfectious Itineraries: The Impact of the Cholera and Covid-19 Pandemics on Anne Lister and Lister Enthusiasts鈥 Travel Behaviours in Britain鈥.
Queer and Trans Philologies (22nd March 2024), University of Cambridge
鈥樷渁 neat place w[hi]ch you pass thro鈥: the evolving orthography of Anne Lister鈥檚 early travel writing鈥.
Truth on the Line (17th May 2022), 糖心Vlog
鈥淐racking the Spine: Querying Ethical Engagement with Anne Lister鈥檚 Archive鈥.
Anne Lister Society Meeting (8th April 2022), Northwestern University
鈥淨ueer Pilgrimage: Anne Lister and Identity Tourism鈥. Also presented at Lesbian Lives (23rd March 2024).
Lesbian Lives (4th March 2022), University College Cork
鈥淭he Effects of 鈥楢nne-dom鈥: The Collaborative Production and Dissemination of New Information on Anne Lister鈥.
120BPM Symposium (11th May 2019), King鈥檚 College London.
鈥淪crewing up the Sheets: Sex on the Death Bed in 120 BPM鈥.&苍产蝉辫;
Future Sex (28th June 2018), 糖心Vlog.
鈥淩epresenting Queer Spaces on Screen and the Future of London鈥檚 LGBT+ Venues鈥.
Research interests
- Lesbian and queer literary figures
- Literary figure communities
- Fandom behaviours
- Queer pilgrimage practices
- Mobilities and gender.
Conference papers
British Sociological Association (23rd April 2025), University of Manchester
鈥淣egotiating Heteromasculinity: Straight Men Who Dance with Men (MDM) in UK Swing
Anne Lister Society Meeting (4th April 2025), Northwestern University
鈥溾榣eft Ann in the ladies room鈥: Negotiating the Public Sphere and Anne Lister鈥檚 (and Ann Walker鈥檚) Train Travel鈥.&苍产蝉辫;
Also presented at the Railways in Literature seminar for the Institute of Historical Research (29th May 2025).
Anne Lister Research Summit (1st February 2025), Packed with Potential
鈥淩eading for Pleasure: Sexuality, Morality, and the Erotic Literature of Anne Lister鈥 with Professor Deborah Kamen and Jann Kraus. Available at:
Anne Lister Society Meeting (6th April 2024), Northwestern University
鈥淚nfectious Itineraries: The Impact of the Cholera and Covid-19 Pandemics on Anne Lister and Lister Enthusiasts鈥 Travel Behaviours in Britain鈥.
Queer and Trans Philologies (22nd March 2024), University of Cambridge
鈥樷渁 neat place w[hi]ch you pass thro鈥: the evolving orthography of Anne Lister鈥檚 early travel writing鈥.
Truth on the Line (17th May 2022), 糖心Vlog
鈥淐racking the Spine: Querying Ethical Engagement with Anne Lister鈥檚 Archive鈥.
Anne Lister Society Meeting (8th April 2022), Northwestern University
鈥淨ueer Pilgrimage: Anne Lister and Identity Tourism鈥. Also presented at Lesbian Lives (23rd March 2024).
Lesbian Lives (4th March 2022), University College Cork
鈥淭he Effects of 鈥楢nne-dom鈥: The Collaborative Production and Dissemination of New Information on Anne Lister鈥.
120BPM Symposium (11th May 2019), King鈥檚 College London.
鈥淪crewing up the Sheets: Sex on the Death Bed in 120 BPM鈥.&苍产蝉辫;
Future Sex (28th June 2018), 糖心Vlog.
鈥淩epresenting Queer Spaces on Screen and the Future of London鈥檚 LGBT+ Venues鈥.
Teaching
Current teaching
- Seminar leading for Contemporary Issues in Sociology (SOC0001).
Previous teaching
- Guest lecturer for Histories of Sex/uality (SOCM071).
- Seminar leading for Theories of Reading II (ELI1011).
- Seminar leading for The Gothic Imagination: 1800s to The Present (ELI3065).
Publications
Forthcoming in The Cambridge Companion to Anne Lister (Roulston and Gonda, eds).
Published in the journal, Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies.
Written for the Women's History Network.
Queer pilgrimage is a journey made by an individual or a group to a location, permanent or transitory, which bears relevance to the lives, cultures, and politics of queer people. It is undertaken for the pilgrim/s to feel an affinity with the space itself through emotional and/or physical proximity. Since Gentleman Jack first aired in 2019, acts of queer pilgrimage have increased substantially to key sites associated with Lister, including to Shibden Hall (her ancestral home), Halifax, York, and beyond. In this article I draw upon two forms of queer pilgrimage in relation to Anne Lister. The first is this substantial increase in tourism and attraction to sites associated with Lister. The second is the queer pilgrimage Lister herself undertook in 1822 to the Ladies of Llangollen at their home, Plas Newydd.In drawing out these two comparatively, I propose that historical and contemporary forms of queer pilgrimage have more in common than may initially be apparent, namely a commonality between the queer pilgrims of the 19th and 21st centuries around a desire for community.
ABSTRACT
Recent French films have sparked discussion about how we under-stand the AIDS crisis and how that historical understanding informs present-day views of HIV/AIDS in France and further afield. An example of this, Robin Campillo鈥檚 period piece, 120 Battements par minute (2017), explicitly depicts 鈥榣a petite mort鈥 and the connection between orgasm and demise through the experiences of Parisian ACT UP members during the height of the AIDS crisis in the early 1990s. The following article argues that the three sex scenes in 120 BPM are pivotal points in the narrative which quite literally raise the dead, connecting the characters to lost lovers, members of their community and their past selves. Through this, I analyse how these scenes interact with the film鈥檚 re-enactment scenes of protest actions in the 1990s, through their choreography, dialogue, duration, and the images of sexual acts themselves. To do this, I identify how the film troubles and recon-structs ideas of death in AIDS cinema through the recognition of the HIV+ individual as one who will not be desexualised by the virus, even if they are dying. This article will scrutinise and query the relationship between the sex scene, mortality, and memory in 120 BPM.
搁脡厂鲍惭脡
R茅cemment, le cin茅ma fran莽ais a suscit茅 des d茅bats autour de notre compr茅hension de la crise du SIDA, en particulier comment cette vision historique 茅claire notre point de vue actuel sur le VIH et le SIDA en France mais aussi 脿 l鈥櫭﹖ranger. Un exemple de cette production cin茅matique est le film d鈥櫭﹑oque de Robin Campillo, 120 Battements par minute (2017), qui repr茅sente 鈥榣a petite mort鈥 et la connexion entre l鈥檕rgasme et la mort, en regardant les exp茅riences des mem-bres parisiens du groupe 芦 ACT UP 禄 au sommet de la crise du SIDA au d茅but des ann茅es 1990. L鈥檃rticle qui suit affirme que les trois sc猫nes de sexe dans 120 BPM sont des points cl茅s dans l鈥檋istoire qui ressus-citent litt茅ralement les morts, en liant les personnages aux amours perdus, aux membres de leur communaut茅, et aux anciennes ver-sions d鈥檈ux-m锚mes. En avan莽ant cette th猫se, j鈥檃nalyse les interactions de ces sc猫nes-ci et leur chor茅graphie, dialogue, dur茅e, ainsi que leur repr茅sentation des actes, avec les sc猫nes de manifestation qui ten-tent de recr茅er certaines manifestations des ann茅es 1990. J鈥檃nalyse la mani猫re dont le film d茅range et reconstruit les id茅es de mort dans le cin茅ma de la crise du SIDA par la reconnaissance de l鈥檌ndividu s茅ropositif en tant que quelqu鈥檜n qui ne sera pas d茅sexualis茅 par le virus, malgr茅 le fait qu鈥檌l est mourant. Cet article examinera et inter-rogera les liens entre le sc猫ne de sexe, la mortalit茅, et le souvenir dans 120 BPM.