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.
He has written a weekly column on contemporary fiction for The Guardian and reviews for the London Review of Books and the New Statesman. He has been a contributor to BBC Two's Newsnight Review and BBC Radio 4's In Our Time. He was a judge for The Best of the Booker in 2008 and for the Man Booker Prize in 2009.John Mullan. Judges, Man Booker Prizes. Retrieved 10 October 2023.
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.
Selected bibliography Sentiment and Sociability: The Language of Feeling in the Eighteenth Century (Clarendon Press, 1988), Robinson Crusoe (ed.) (Longman, 1992), Eighteenth-century Popular Culture: A Selection (ed. with Christopher Reid) (Oxford University Press, 2000), How Novels Work (Oxford University Press, 2006), Lyrical Ballads (foreword) (Longman, 2007), Anonymity: A Secret History of English Literature (Princeton University Press, 2008), What Matters in Jane Austen?: Twenty Crucial Puzzles Solved (Bloomsbury, 2012), The Artful Dickens: Tricks and Ploys of the Great Novelist (Bloomsbury, 2020),
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External links
John Mullan's page at UCL