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 Tiffany Stern FBA

Shakespeare, theatre history from the 16th to the 18th century, book history and editing

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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 Lorna Hutson FBA

The literature of the English Renaissance, with special interests in legal or forensic rhetoric, women's writing and Anglo-Scots relations

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