Professor John Mullan

Email: j.mullan@ucl.ac.uk
External phone: 020 7679 3144
Internal phone: 33144

Education and Experience

John Mullan studied for his BA and PhD at the University of Cambridge. He was a Research Fellow at Jesus College, Cambridge and a Lecturer at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, before coming to UCL in 1994. He was General Editor of the Pickering & Chatto series Lives of the Great Romantics by Their Contemporaries, and Associate Editor for the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. [Life Stories] A regular radio broadcaster and literary journalist, he writes on contemporary fiction for the Guardian and was a judge for the 2009 Man Booker Prize.

Research

John is a specialist in eighteenth-century literature and is at present writing the volume of the Oxford English Literary History that will cover the period from 1709 to 1784. His new edition of Samuel Johnson’s Lives of the Poets was published in 2008. [Editions], [Life Stories] He also has research interests in the nineteenth century, and is writing a book on the fictional techniques and formal quirks of Jane Austen.

Selected Publications

Books

Sentiment and Sociability. The Language of Feeling in the Eighteenth Century (Oxford University Press, 1988)

How Novels Work (Oxford University Press, 2006)

Anonymity. A Secret History of English Literature (Faber and Faber, 2007)

Edited Books

Ed. with Introduction, Lives of the Great Romantics by Their Contemporaries: Shelley (Pickering & Chatto, 1996)

Ed. with Introduction, Eighteenth-Century Popular Culture: A Selection (Oxford University Press, 2000).

Introduction, Daniel Defoe, Memoirs of a Cavalier, ed. James Boulton (Oxford World’s Classics, 1991)

Ed. with Introduction, Daniel Defoe, Roxana (Oxford World’s Classics, 1988)

Ed. with Introduction, Daniel Defoe, The Political History of the Devil and A Journal of the Plague Year (Pickering & Chatto, 2004)

Ed. with Introduction, Samuel Johnson, Lives of the Poets (Oxford World’s Classics, 2009).