Menu
Aeon
DonateNewsletter
SIGN IN

Timothy Hampton

Professor of Comparative Literature and French, University of California at Berkeley

Timothy Hampton is professor of comparative literature and French at the University of California at Berkeley, where he holds the Aldo Scaglione and Marie M Burns Distinguished Professorship. His books include Fictions of Embassy: Literature and Diplomacy in Early Modern Europe (2011), Bob Dylan: How the Songs Work (2019) and Cheerfulness: A Literary and Cultural History (2022).

Written by Timothy Hampton