John Mullan

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.

He has written a weekly column on contemporary fiction for The Guardian and reviews for the London Review of Books and the New Statesman. 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.

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.

Selected bibliography Sentiment and Sociability: The Language of Feeling in the Eighteenth Century (Clarendon Press, 1988), 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),