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Dr Amy Wigelsworth is a part-time Senior Lecturer in the Department of Management at Sheffield Business School (Sheffield Hallam University). She holds a PhD in 19th-century French literature from Durham University and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Her research focuses on urban mystery novels (mystères urbains), particularly their palimpsestic structures, intertextuality, and sociocultural implications. She has published extensively on topics such as textual layers in French literature, spatial representation in cinema, and gender studies.
- Education: PhD (2013), European Masters in Publishing (2009), BA in Modern Languages (2002) from Durham University.
Her research interests explore the intersection of urban space and narrative form, with a focus on 19th-century French texts and their modern adaptations. Recent work analyzes prefaces in urban mysteries, spatial mobility in films, and the role of secret societies in literary structures. She has contributed to edited volumes on crime fiction and serves as an external examiner for university programs.
Key publications include her monograph Rewriting Les Mystères de Paris: The Mystères Urbains and the Palimpsest (2016) and articles in journals like Nineteenth-Century French Studies and Romantisme. She has also organized conference streams on transnational urban literature and reviewed works on 19th-century French popular fiction.
