Professor Alex Mullen

Professor in Ancient History and Sociolinguistics, University of Nottingham
MA, MPhil, PhD
Fifty-Pound Fellow since 2017

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 https://latinnow.eu/, the data can be found here https://gis.latinnow.eu/ and the trilogy of Open Access books downloaded via the OUP website: 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. 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/. 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 and (co-edited with Patrick James) Multilingualism in the Graeco-Roman Worlds. I have also published a born digital, open access eBook, Manual of Roman Everyday Writing Vol. 1 Scripts and Texts (with Alan Bowman, Oxford) http://bit.ly/MREW1, and introductions to Gaulish in three languages (with Coline Ruiz Darasse, Bordeaux). I collaborate in several international projects, including 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/. At Oxford I lectured on Imperial and Late LatinRoman Britain and Latin Epigraphy for the Classics Faculty.