John Mullan (academic)

{{Short description|Professor of English at University College London}}

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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.{{cite web|url=https://www.ucl.ac.uk/english/people/john-mullan |title=Professor John Mullan |access-date=10 October 2023 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140528061157/http://www.ucl.ac.uk/english/staff/john-mullan |archive-date=2014-05-28 }}

He has written a weekly column on contemporary fiction for The Guardian{{cite news| url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/review/3096647.stm | work=BBC News | title=John Mullan | date=17 March 2006}} and reviews for the London Review of Books{{cite web|url=https://www.lrb.co.uk/contributors/john-mullan|title=John Mullan |work=LRB|publisher=}} and the New Statesman.{{cite web|url=https://www.newstatesman.com/author/johnmullan |title=John Mullan| work=New Statesman}} He has been a contributor to BBC Two's Newsnight Review and BBC Radio 4's In Our Time. He was a The Best of the Booker judge in 2008 and for the Man Booker Prize in 2009.[https://thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/judges/john-mullan John Mullan]. Judges, Man Booker Prizes. Retrieved 10 October 2023.

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.