Alex Mullen (academic)

Alex Mullen is an ancient historian, sociolinguist and Roman archaeologist. She is currently an Associate Professor in Classical Studies at the University of Nottingham and a fellow of All Souls College, Oxford.

Alex Mullen
Awards
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge
Academic work
Discipline
  • Ancient Historian
  • Linguist
  • Archaeologist
Sub-discipline
InstitutionsUniversity of Nottingham

Early life and education

Mullen studied for an undergraduate degree at Jesus College, Cambridge.[1] She completed an M. Phil and PhD, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, also at the University of Cambridge.[2]

Career

From 2008–2011 Mullen was a Lumley Research Fellow, at Magdalene College, Cambridge. She was a post-doctoral research fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, from 2011–2015.[3] In 2017 she was awarded a European Research Council starting grant for the project The Latinization of the North-Western Roman Provinces: Sociolinguistics, Epigraphy and Archaeology.[4] She has published widely on issues of linguistics, bilingualism, and social identity, utilising texts, epigraphy and archaeology. In 2017 she was elected as a Fifty-Pound Fellow at All Souls College.[5]

Awards and honours

Mullen's 2013 monograph, Southern Gaul and the Mediterranean: multilingualism and multiple identities in the Iron Age and Roman periods, received the James Henry Breasted Prize in 2014 from the American Historical Association.[6] In 2018, Mullen was awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize for Classics.[7]

Selected publications

Books
  • Mullen, A and James, P (eds) 2012. Multilingualism in the Graeco-Roman Worlds. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press.
  • Mullen, A, 2013. Southern Gaul and the Mediterranean: Multilingualism and Multiple Identities in the Iron Age and Roman Periods. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Mullen, A. and C. Ruiz Darasse 2018. Gaulish. Language, Writing, Epigraphy. University of Zaragoza Press.

Journal articles
  • Mullen, A., 2007. Linguistic evidence for Romanization: continuity and change in Romano-British onomastics Britannia. 35–61
  • Mullen A., 2015. ‘In both our languages’: Greek-Latin code-switching in Roman literature Language and literature 24.3, 213–232

References
  1. "All Souls College Oxford". www.asc.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2019-03-08.
  2. Mullen, Alex (2013), "Multiple voices", Southern Gaul and the Mediterranean, Cambridge University Press, pp. 3–52, doi:10.1017/cbo9781139105743.004, ISBN 9781139105743
  3. "All Souls College Oxford". www.asc.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2019-03-08.
  4. "(no title)". latinnow.eu. Retrieved 2019-03-08. Cite uses generic title (help)
  5. "All Souls College Oxford". www.asc.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2019-03-08.
  6. "James Henry Breasted Prize Recipients | AHA". www.historians.org. Retrieved 2019-03-08.
  7. "Philip Leverhulme Prizes 2018 | The Leverhulme Trust". www.leverhulme.ac.uk. Retrieved 2019-03-08.
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