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Timothy Hampton Professor of French and Comparative Literature, Chair of the French Studies Program Professor Hampton's principle research interests revolve around the relationship between literature and politics, historiography, questions of cultural transmission and cross-cultural encounters. He is currently at work on a project analyzing the relationship between literature and diplomacy in Renaissance Europe, from Machiavelli to Grotius. He is the author of two books: Writing from History: The Rhetoric of Exemplarity in Renaissance Literature; and Literature and Nation in the Sixteenth Century: Inventing Renaissance France. |
