Professor Alex Mullen

My main research interests lie in the application of contemporary sociolinguistics to the ancient world and the integration of epigraphy, linguistics and archaeology to write socio-cultural history. My ERC-funded project LatinNow, on life and languages of Roman western Europe, was completed in 2023. The project data can be found at https://gis.latinnow.eu/, and the trilogy of Open Access books can be downloaded via the OUP website: Latinization, Local Languages and Literacies in the Roman West, edited with Anna Willi, Languages and Communities in the Late-Roman and Post-Imperial Western Provinces, edited with George Woudhuysen, Social Factors in the Latinization of the Roman West I currently work on projects on Gaulish inscriptions, funded by the ANR; technology for reading ancient texts, funded by SSHRC; writing tablets from Britannia, funded by the British Academy; and Roman Inscriptions of Britain in Schools, funded by UKRI. I have published the following books with Cambridge University Press: The Language of Letters: Bilingual Roman Epistolography from Cicero to Fronto, with Olivia Elder, Southern Gaul and the Mediterranean: Multilingualism and Multiple Identities in the Iron Age and Roman Periods, Multilingualism in the Graeco-Roman Worlds, co-edited with Patrick James I have also published a born-digital, open access eBook, Manual of Roman Everyday Writing Vol. 1: Scripts and Texts, with Alan Bowman, Oxford, and introductions to Gaulish in three languages, with Coline Ruiz Darasse, Bordeaux. I collaborate in several international projects, including work on Gaulish inscriptions, funded by the ANR; technology for reading ancient texts, funded by SSHRC; writing tablets from Britannia, funded by the British Academy; and Roman Inscriptions of Britain in Schools, funded by UKRI. At Oxford, I lectured on Imperial and Late Latin, Roman Britain, and Latin Epigraphy for the Classics Faculty.