John Mullan (academic)

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.^[1]

He has written a weekly column on contemporary fiction for The Guardian^[2] and reviews for the London Review of Books^[3] and the New Statesman.^[4] 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.^[5]

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.^[1]