The Cambridge History of French Literature

William Burgwinkle is a Reader in Old French and Occitan at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge.

Nicholas Hammond is the author of several books and articles on seventeenth-century French literature. His books include Playing with Truth: Language and the Human Condition in Pascal's Pensées (Oxford University Press, 1994), Creative Tensions: An Introduction to Seventeenth-Century French Literature (Duckworth, 1997), Fragmentary Voices: Memory and Education at Port-Royal (Gunter Narr, 2004) and Gossip, Sexuality and Scandal in France, 1610–1715 (Peter Lang, 2011). He is also the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Pascal (Cambridge University Press, 2003).

Emma Wilson is a Reader in contemporary French literature and film at the University of Cambridge.