Professor Nicholas Hammond

Nicholas Hammond is the director and principal investigator on the project and is Professor of early modern French literature and culture at Cambridge University. 

Two works have emanated directly from the Soundscapes project: a monograph, The Powers of Sound and Song in Early Modern Paris (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2019), and a special number of the journal Early Modern French Studies devoted to "Soundscapes", co-edited with Tom Hamilton, vol. 41 (2019). 

He is also 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 furthermore 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); with Michael Moriarty, of Evocations of Eloquence: Rhetoric, Literature and Religion in early modern France (Peter Lang, 2012);  with Joseph Harris, Racine's Andromaque: absences and displacements (Brill, 2019); and with Paul Hammond, Racine's Roman Tragedies: Britannicus and Bérénice (Brill, 2022). 

He published a scholarly edition of the complete poetry of Denis Sanguin de Saint-Pavin (Classiques Garnier, 2012).