John Mullan (academic)

John Mullan is a professor of English at University College London (UCL). He is a specialist in eighteenth-century literature, currently writing the 1709–1784 volume of the Oxford English Literary History.[1]

He has written a weekly column on contemporary fiction for The Guardian[2] and reviews for the London Review of Books[3] and the New Statesman.[4] He has been a contributor to BBC Two's Newsnight Review and BBC Radio 4's In Our Time. He was a The Best of the Booker judge in 2008 and for the Man Booker Prize in 2009.[5]

Educated at Downside School and King's College, Cambridge, Mullan was a research fellow at Jesus College, Cambridge, and a lecturer at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, before moving to UCL in 1994.[1]

  1. ^ a b "Professor John Mullan". Archived from the original on 28 May 2014. Retrieved 10 October 2023.
  2. ^ "John Mullan". BBC News. 17 March 2006.
  3. ^ "John Mullan". LRB.
  4. ^ "John Mullan". New Statesman.
  5. ^ John Mullan. Judges, Man Booker Prizes. Retrieved 10 October 2023.