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Professor John Mullan
Head of Department
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).
