John Mullan is a

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of English at

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. 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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'' and the ''

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''. He has been a contributor to

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''. He was a The Best of the Booker judge in 2008 and for the

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itself in 2009.Judges, Man Booker Prize website.
Retrieved on 28 July 2009. Educated at

Downside School Downside School is a co-educational Catholic independent boarding and day school in the English public school tradition for pupils aged 11 to 18. It is located between Bath, Frome, Wells and Bruton, and is attached to Downside Abbey. Originall ...

and

King's College, Cambridge King's College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Formally The King's College of Our Lady and Saint Nicholas in Cambridge, the college lies beside the River Cam and faces out onto King's Parade in the centre of the city ...

, he was a research fellow at

Jesus College, Cambridge Jesus College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. The college's full name is The College of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Saint John the Evangelist and the glorious Virgin Saint Radegund, near Cambridge. Its common name comes fr ...

and a lecturer at

Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge Fitzwilliam College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. The college traces its origins back to 1869 and 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 Publishing, 7 Jun 2012)

References

External links

John Mullan's page at UCL

John Mullan's articles in The Guardian
Alumni of King's College, Cambridge Academics of University College London Fellows of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge Fellows of Jesus College, Cambridge People educated at Downside School Year of birth missing (living people) Living people {{UK-academic-stub