Professor Alex Mullen

mullen alex
Professor of Ancient History and Sociolinguistics
Professor, University Of Nottingham and Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford
alex.mullen@classics.ox.ac.uk

Qualifications: MA  MPhil  PhD (Cantab)

ORCID: 0000-0002-9110-4678

Link to CSAD profile.

 

Research Interests

My main research interests lie in the application of contemporary sociolinguistics to the ancient world and the integration of sociolinguistics, epigraphy and archaeology to write socio-cultural history. My primary area of expertise is the cultural and linguistic histories of Iron Age and Roman Britain and Gaul. My books are: three edited 2023-2024 OUP volumes (Latinization, Local Languages and Literacies in the Roman West (ed. with Anna Willi), Languages and Communities in the Late-Roman and Post-Imperial Western Provinces (ed. with George Woudhuysen), Social Factors in the Latinization of the Roman West); The language of letters: bilingual Roman epistolography from Cicero to Fronto (co-written with Olivia Elder) (2019, CUP); Manual of Roman Everyday Writing. Vol. 1 Scripts and Texts (co-written with Alan Bowman) (2021, Nottingham); Gaulish. Language, Writing, Epigraphy (University of Zaragoza Press, 2018); Southern Gaul and the Mediterranean: Multilingualism and Multiple Identities in the Iron Age and Roman Periods (2013, CUP); Multilingualism in the Graeco-Roman Worlds (2012, CUP) (ed. with Patrick James). I recently completed the ERC-funded project LatinNow on the Latinization of the north-western Roman provinces (https://latinnow.eu/), based at the University of Nottingham and CSAD. I currently work on projects on Gaulish inscriptions (ANR), technology for reading ancient texts (SSHRC), writing tablets from Britannia (British Academy), and Roman Inscriptions of Britain in Schools (UKRI) https://romaninscriptionsofbritain.org/.

Research Keywords

Ancient history; Roman epigraphy; Digital epigraphy; Ancient sociolinguistics (especially bi- and multi-lingualism); Roman archaeology; Gaul; Britannia

Teaching

I would be delighted to hear from students interested in doctoral supervision.

Publications

Full Publications: Professor Alex Mullen Full list of Publications September 2023

Selected Publications:

Forthcoming Mullen, A. and Willi, A. (eds) 2024 Latinization, Local Languages and Literacies in the Roman West (Oxford University Press)
Forthcoming Mullen, A. and Woudhuysen, G. (eds) 2024 Languages and Communities in the Late-Roman and Post-Imperial Western Provinces (Oxford University Press)
Mullen, A. (ed.) 2023 Social Factors in the Latinization of the Roman West (Oxford University Press)
Mullen, A. and Bowman, A. 2021 Manual of Roman Everyday Writing. Vol. 1 Scripts and Texts (Nottingham) bit.ly/MREW1
Elder, O. and Mullen, A. 2019 The language of letters: bilingual Roman epistolography from Cicero to Fronto (Cambridge University Press) 
Mullen, A. and Darasse, C. R. 2018 Gaulish. Language, Writing, Epigraphy (University of Zaragoza Press, also in French and Spanish) 
Mullen, A. 2013 Southern Gaul and the Mediterranean. Multilingualism and multiple identities in the Iron Age and Roman periods (Cambridge University Press)
Mullen, A. and James, P. (eds) 2012 Multilingualism in the Graeco-Roman worlds (Cambridge University Press)
Mullen, A. Entangled worlds: Britain and Gaul in the Iron Age and Roman periods (in preparation)
Elder, O. and Mullen, A. The language of letters: bilingual Roman epistolography from Cicero to Fronto (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming) 
Mullen, A. and Darasse, C. R. Gaulish. Language, Writing, Epigraphy (University of Zaragoza Press, 2018) 
Mullen, A. Southern Gaul and the Mediterranean. Multilingualism and multiple identities in the Iron Age and Roman periods (Cambridge University Press, 2013) pp. 473
Mullen, A. and James, P. (eds) Multilingualism in the Graeco-Roman worlds (Cambridge University Press, 2012) pp. 408