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.