Dr Amy Wigelsworth FHEA
Senior Lecturer in French
Summary
I am a Senior Lecturer in French with a research background in cultural studies. In addition to my teaching and research responsibilities, I support students from across Sheffield Business School in sourcing, securing, and completing sandwich placements in French-speaking countries.
About
My research is rooted in cultural studies and is increasingly interdisciplinary, with a growing focus on the medical humanities. My monograph, Rewriting Les Mystères de Paris: The Mystères Urbains and the Palimpsest, examines several rewritings of Eugène Sue’s Les Mystères de Paris (1842–43), produced in the latter half of the nineteenth century in response to the phenomenal success of Sue’s archetypal urban mystery.
I have also co-edited Rewriting Wrongs, a collection of essays exploring the resonance of the palimpsest trope in contemporary French crime fiction.
More recently, my work has focused on representations of work in French fiction and film, and on the particular agency of fiction in translation as a bibliotherapeutic tool—an area that connects directly with current debates in the medical humanities. I lead the Transnational Popular Culture research cluster.
My teaching focuses on French language and cultural studies, as well as intercultural competencies in a business context.
Senior Lecturer
Teaching
Sheffield Business School
College of Business, Technology and Engineering
Division of Global Business, Tourism & Hospitality Management
Advanced French
Work & Life in French-Speaking Societies
Business & Culture in French-Speaking Societies
Contemporary Debates in French-Speaking Societies
Understanding People & Cultures
Research
- Culture and Creativity Research Institute
I am currently leading an interdisciplinary empirical study entitled Testing the Effectiveness of Bibliotherapy with French Fiction in Translation as Treatment for Work-Related Depression. My contribution to the edited collection French Studies and the Medical Humanities is forthcoming.
Publications
Key Publications
Wigelsworth, A. (2016). Rewriting Les Mystères de Paris: The Mystères Urbains and the Palimpsest. Cambridge: Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Rewriting-Les-Mysteres-de-Paris-The-Mysteres-Urbains-and-the-Palimpsest/Wigelsworth/p/book/9781909662360
Journal articles
Wigelsworth, A. (2024). Au seuil de la transgression : l’instance préfacielle dans les mystères urbains. Nouvelle Revue Synergies Canada, (18). http://doi.org/10.21083/nrsc.v2024i18.7700
Wigelsworth, A. (2024). ‘Sandrine Bonnaire regained’: space and mobility in Sans toit ni loi and Prendre le large. French Screen Studies. http://doi.org/10.1080/26438941.2024.2377456
Wigelsworth, A. (2020). Smoke and mirrors: secret societies and self-reflexivity in the mystères urbains. Nineteenth-Century French Studies, 48 (3&4), 258-275. http://doi.org/10.1353/ncf.2020.0008
Wigelsworth, A. (2017). Illustration et dissimulation dans Les Mystères de Paris : enjeux de l’édition illustrée. Romantisme, 175 (175), 97-112. http://doi.org/10.3917/rom.175.0097
Wigelsworth, A. (2015). Sex and the city : représentations du féminin dans les mystères urbains [également disponible en anglais]. Les Mystères urbains au XIXe siècle : circulations, transferts, appropriations. http://www.medias19.org/index.php?id=21316
Wigelsworth, A. (2014). Detection in the second degree in French urban mystery novels. Australasian Journal of Popular Culture, 3 (1), 19-31. http://doi.org/10.1386/ajpc.3.1.19_1
Wigelsworth, A. (2012). Au seuil des bas-fonds: Footnotes in the mysteres urbains. Dix-Neuf, 16 (3), 243-259.
Wigelsworth, A. (2011). Eugene Sue (biography). The Literary Encyclopedia.
Book chapters
Wigelsworth, A. (2022). Woman at Sea? Space and work in Catherine Poulain’s Le grand marin. In Bouamer, S., & Stojanovic, S. (Eds.) ‘Taking up Space’: Women at Work in Contemporary France. University of Wales Press: https://www.uwp.co.uk/book/taking-up-space/
Wigelsworth, A. (2014). Finishings off: Murder à la malet in Simsolo’s Les Derniers mystères de Paris. In Kimyongur, A., & Wigelsworth, A. (Eds.) Rewriting wrongs: French crime fiction and the palimpsest. (pp. 175-190). Newcastle Upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing: https://www.cambridgescholars.com/rewriting-wrongs
Books
Kimyongür, A., & Wigelsworth, A. (Eds.). (2014). Rewriting Wrongs: French Crime Fiction and the Palimpsest. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Presentations
Wigelsworth, A. (2017). La transnationalité des mystères urbains.
Wigelsworth, A. (2016). The transnational agency of French urban mystery fiction.
Wigelsworth, A. (2014). The American in Paris: The Americanization of City and Text in French Urban Mystery Novels'.
Wigelsworth, A. (2013). Sex and the City: rewriting the feminine in the mysteres urbains'.
Wigelsworth, A. (2013). Underworlds and Utopias : Eugene Sue's Mysteres de Paris and Jules Lermina's Mystereville'.
Wigelsworth, A. (2012). Au seuil des bas-fonds: Footnotes in themystères urbains. http://doi.org/10.1179/1478731812z.00000000020
Wigelsworth, A. (2011). Dirt and debris: paratext and paradox in the mysteres urbains'.
Wigelsworth, A. (2011). Smoke and mirrors: secret societies, from mysteres urbains to roman policier'.
Wigelsworth, A. (2011). Sur la piste du policier: the detective au second degre in the mysteres urbains'.
Other publications
Wigelsworth, A. (2017). Review of Goulet, Andrea. (2015). Legacies of the Rue Morgue: Science, Space, and Crime Fiction in France. University of Pennsylvania Press. L’Esprit Créateur, Vol. 57, No. 1: 139–142. Pennsylvania: University of Pennsylvania Press
Wigelsworth, A. (2015). Online Article - «Sex and the City : représentations du féminin dans les mystères urbains [également disponible en anglais]», Médias 19 [En ligne], Politique des Mystères urbains, Publications, Dominique Kalifa et Marie-Ève Thérenty (dir.), Les Mystères urbains au XIXe siècle : Circulations, transferts, appropriations, mis à jour le : 13/03/2015, URL : http://www.medias19.org/index.php?id=21316.
Wigelsworth, A. (2013). Affaires de famille – review of Bernard, C. (2013). Le Jeu des familles dans le roman du XIXe siècle. Saint-Étienne: Publications de l’Université de Saint-Étienne. http://www.fabula.org/revue/document9071.php. Sheffield
Wigelsworth, A. (2013). Book Review: HOLMES, Diana, PLATTEN, David, ARTIAGA, Loïc and MIGOZZI, Jacques (eds) Finding the Plot: Storytelling in Popular Fictions, Cambridge Scholar Publishing, 2013 345 pp., £49.99, ISBN: 978-1-4438-4238-9. Modern & Contemporary France http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09639489.2013.861403#.UxXp4eNdPfE. Sheffield
Wigelsworth, A. (2012). ‘Le populaire au pluriel’ – review of Daniel Compère, Les Romans populaires, Paris: Presses de la Sorbonne nouvelle, coll. « Les fondamentaux de la Sorbonne nouvelle », 2012 http://www.fabula.org/revue/document7066.php. Sheffield
Wigelsworth, A. (2010). ‘Sur la piste de la littérature du XIXe siècle : Eugène Sue à l’étranger et l’éclosion du roman policier’ – review of Le Rocambole, n°42, printemps 2008, Dossier « Eugène Sue à l'étranger » and Elsa de Lavergne, La Naissance du roman policier français http://www.fabula.org/revue/document5432.php. Sheffield
Other activities
I currently serve as external examiner for French at the University of East Anglia
Postgraduate supervision
I am currently co-supervising a PhD project on academic literacies. I welcome PhD enquiries in areas aligned with my research interests, particularly those with an interdisciplinary focus.