Professor Paul Hammond FBA

English Language and Literature Northern Europe France
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2002
Subjects
Literature

Summary

Paul Hammond was a Prize Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge 1978-82; he has subsequently taught at the University of Leeds, being appointed to a personal chair as Professor of Seventeenth-Century English Literature in 1996. His principal research interests are in seventeenth-century poetry and drama, particularly in Shakespeare, Milton, Dryden, and Racine.

Current post

Professor of Seventeenth-Century English Literature, University of Leeds

Past appointments

University of Leeds Professor of Seventeenth-Century English Literature, University of Leeds

1996 -

University of Leeds Professor of Seventeenth-Century English Literature, University of Leeds

1996 -

Trinity College University of Cambridge Fellow

1978 - 1982

University of Leeds Lecturer in English, Senior Lecturer and Reader

1978 - 1996

Publications

Milton and the People 2014

The strangeness of tragedy 2009

Shakespeare's Sonnets: An original-spelling text 2012

The poems of John Dryden (5 vols) 1995-2005

Dryden and the traces of classical Rome 1999

Figuring sex between men from Shakespeare to Rochester 2002

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Aurora Egido FBA

History and Critique of 16th and 17th centuries of Spanish Literature in its variables subjects, genres and authors, from Garcilaso to Gracián (including Santa Teresa, Cervantes, Góngora and Calderón, among others), with studies and critical editions

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Professor Colin Burrow FBA

Early Modern English Literature; relationships with classical literature, theory and practice of literary imitation, textual editing, literary history, Wyatt, Spenser, Shakespeare, Jonson and Milton.

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Professor Susanne Kord FBA

German literature (18th/19th centuries); reception and history of women’s literature; literary anonymity and pseudonyms; cultural history of antisemitism; crime genres (literature and film); genre film and philosophy

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