Sarah Wingrove

Dr Sarah Wingrove


Associate Tutor
PhD

Academic and research departments

Literature and Languages, Sociology.

About

Areas of specialism

Gender and Sexuality; Social History; Queer Studies; Pilgrimage Studies

My qualifications

2025
Interdisciplinary PhD in English Literature and Sociology
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2019
MA in Film Studies
King's College London
2017
BA in Film Studies with PTY
(PTY at Warner Brothers Production TV UK.)
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Affiliations and memberships

Research

Research interests

Teaching

Publications

Wingrove, S. (2026)

Forthcoming in The Cambridge Companion to Anne Lister (Roulston and Gonda, eds). 

Wingrove, S. (2024)

Published in the journal, Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies. 

Wingrove, S. (2023)

Written for the Women's History Network. 

Wingrove, S. (2022)

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.

Wingrove, S. (2022)

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.