Alex Mullen

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.

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

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. 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. 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.

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. In 2018, Mullen was awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize for Classics.

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