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Nicholas Hammond is Professor of Early Modern French Literature and Culture in the Department of French at the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics, University of Cambridge. His academic work centers on seventeenth-century French literature, thought, and culture, with particular expertise in Pascal, Port-Royal, and 17th-century theatre.
His research spans Early Modern cultural history (especially song cultures and sound studies), 17th-century French thought (Pascal and Port-Royal), theatre history (Racine, Corneille, Molière), gender and sexuality studies, and women writers like Sévigné and Lafayette. He directs the Parisian Soundscapes project, which reconstructs early modern Parisian sonic environments through transcriptions and performances of historical street songs documented at www.parisiansoundscapes.org.
Professor Hammond teaches Early Modern literature and thought, Theatre (17th century to present), and papers FR4, FR9, FR14. He actively supervises MPhil and PhD students in relevant research areas and welcomes new graduate inquiries.
He leads the interdisciplinary Parisian Soundscapes project, fostering collaboration among scholars in sound studies, history, and literature to explore urban soundscapes in early modern Europe, with ongoing work focused on reconstructing historical street performances and their cultural contexts.
