Department of French

Dr Nicholas Hammond

College:

Positions:
 Reader in Early Modern French Theatre and Thought
Department of French

Postal Address:
  Department of French
Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages
Raised Faculty Building
Sidgwick Avenue
CAMBRIDGE   CB3 9DA

Email:
  ngh20@cam.ac.uk
Phone:
 
Fax:
  (+44) (0)1223 335062

Nicholas Hammond specialises in seventeenth-century French thought, drama, poetry and culture. He is the author of Playing with truth: language and the human condition in Pascal's Pensées (OUP, 1994); Creative Tensions: an introduction to seventeenth-century French Literature (Duckworth, 1997); Fragmentary Voices: memory and education at Port-Royal (Biblio 17, 2004); and Gossip, Sexuality and Scandal in France (1610-1715) (Peter Lang, 2011). He is also the editor of D'Aubignac's Quatre Dissertations contre Corneille (1996); the Cambridge Companion to Pascal (2003); and of the Duckworth series New Readings: introductions to European literature and culture. He is co-editor, with Bill Burgwinkle and Emma Wilson, of The Cambridge History of French Literature (2011), and, with Michael Moriarty, of Evocations of Eloquence: Rhetoric, Literature and Religion in early modern France (Peter Lang, 2012). His most recent book is a scholarly edition of the complete poetry of Denis Sanguin de Saint-Pavin (Classiques Garnier, 2012).