John Mullan (academic)

John Mullan is a professor of English at University College London. 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, Robinson Crusoe, Eighteenth-century Popular Culture: A Selection, How Novels Work, Lyrical Ballads, Anonymity: A Secret History of English Literature, What Matters in Jane Austen?: Twenty Crucial Puzzles Solved, The Artful Dickens: Tricks and Ploys of the Great Novelist,