Michael Hawcroft is an Emeritus Fellow and Lecturer in French. He is Chevalier dans l’ordre des Palmes académiques.
He teaches classes and tutorials in French language and French literature. He has written books on rhetoric in French literature and on two of France’s most famous dramatists, Molière and Racine. His current research is on stagecraft, and attempts to reconstruct what can be known of entrances and exits on the seventeenth-century stage and the significance of such moments for theatre audiences.