John Mullan is a

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of English at

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(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 ''

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'' and reviews for the ''

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''. He has been a contributor to

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''. He was a judge for

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in 2008 and for the

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in 2009.John Mullan
Judges, Man Booker Prizes. Retrieved 10 October 2023. Educated at

Downside School Downside School (formally The College of St Gregory the Great, Downside but simply referred to as Downside) is an 11–18 mixed, Roman Catholic, independent, day and boarding school in Stratton-on-the-Fosse, Somerset, England. It was establish ...

and

King's College, Cambridge King's College, formally The King's College of Our Lady and Saint Nicholas in Cambridge, is a List of colleges of the University of Cambridge, constituent college of the University of Cambridge. The college lies beside the River Cam and faces ...

, Mullan was a research fellow at

Jesus College, Cambridge Jesus College is a Colleges of the University of Cambridge, constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Jesus College was established in 1496 on the site of the twelfth-century Benedictine nunnery of St Radegund's Priory, Cambridge, St ...

, and a lecturer at

Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge Fitzwilliam College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England. The college has origins from 1869, with the foundation of the Non-Collegiate Students Board, a venture intended to offer academically excellent students of all ...

, before moving to UCL in 1994.

Selected bibliography

* ''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),

References

External links

John Mullan's page at UCL

John Mullan's articles in ''The Guardian''
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