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Contact

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  Nottingham
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• Alex.Mullen@nottingham.ac.uk

Biography

• Principal Investigator of the AHRC-funded project, Voices of Britain Under and After Rome, 2026-2030
• Co-Director of the British Academy project,
• Academic Residency with London Museum, 2025-2027, London Museum funded
• Project Lead of Collaborative Doctoral Partnership with the British Museum and the Vindolanda Trust, Decoding the Vindolanda tablets: Generative AI to reassemble, read and restore Roman handwritten texts, 2025-2029, AHRC-funded
• Lead of UK team in collaborative project with Rijksmuseum van Oudheden (RMO), Leiden, Roman Writing Tablets of the Netherlands, funded by RMO
• Co-investigator on Canadian government Insight Development Grant project (SSHRC), led by Prof. Alex Meyer, University of Western Ontario, Illuminating the Vindolanda Stylus Tablets, 2020-2024
• Project Lead of , 2022-, funded by UKRI Arts Impact Accelerator Account
• Elected Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (FRHistS) and the Society of Antiquaries (FSA) 2021
• Principal Investigator of European Research Council-funded project, (LatinNow), 2017-2023

• Post-doctoral Research Fellow, All Souls College, University of Oxford 2011-2015
• Affiliated lecturer, Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge 2010-2011
• Lumley Research Fellow, Magdalene College, University of Cambridge 2008-2011
• Undergraduate and Post-graduate, Jesus College, University of Cambridge 2001-2008

Expertise Summary

• Ancient History
• Roman Epigraphy
• Ancient Sociolinguistics (especially Multilingualism and Contact Linguistics)
• Roman Archaeology
• Gaul and Britain (c. 600 BC to AD 400)

Teaching Summary

In 2026-27 I will be convening the Faculty of Arts' module ARTS1008 Digital Projects: Data and Text.

I would be very happy to hear from anyone interested in discussing research at any level, especially on Roman Britain and Gaul, and the sociolinguistics of the Roman world. I have supervised graduates on bilingualism in Roman society, the Dobunni, the Vindolanda tablets, the Roman oath, the Roman army as a speech community, Roman porticoes, cooks in the Roman world, and identity making in Gaul.

Previous teaching includes: Becoming Roman in the West; Ancient Art; Fall of the Roman Republic; Beginners, Intermediate and Advanced Latin; Dissertation supervision; Telling Stories in Greek and Roman Culture (MA); Researching the Ancient World (MA); Religion (MA).

I received an Oxford Teaching Award in 2014. I became a Fellow of the Higher Education Authority in 2017 via the Nottingham Recognition Scheme.

Research Summary

I am currently using support from a Philip Leverhulme Prize to undertake research towards a sociolinguistic history of Britain and Gaul and to finalize Roman Inscriptions of Britain vol.4 with Prof.… read more

Selected Publications

• ALEX MULLEN and ALAN BOWMAN, 2021.
• OLIVIA ELDER and ALEX MULLEN, 2019. The language of letters: bilingual Roman epistolography from Cicero to Fronto
• ALEX MULLEN and COLINE RUIZ DARASSE, 2018. Gaulish. Language, Writing, Epigraphy University of Zaragoza Press.
• MULLEN, A, 2013. Southern Gaul and the Mediterranean: multilingualism and multiple identities in the Iron Age and Roman periods Cambridge ; Cambridge University Press.

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Current Research

I am currently using support from a Philip Leverhulme Prize to undertake research towards a sociolinguistic history of Britain and Gaul and to finalize Roman Inscriptions of Britain vol.4 with Prof. Alan Bowman (Oxford), an edition of all wooden writing tablets from Britannia, largely from Vindolanda, Carlisle and London.

I continue to work with colleagues to investigate the latest scientific techniques to decipher hard-to-read texts from the Roman world, not only the best imaging techniques but also digital tools to recover handwriting, restore gaps, reassemble fragments and disentangle palimpsests. I am leading a Collaborative Doctoral Partnership to test these techniques on the Vindolanda tablets. I also work on the Vindolanda tablets working group, co-direct the British Academy-funded project to read writing tablets from Roman Britain, and lead the UK team working on the writing tablets of the Netherlands with the RMO in Leiden.

Past Research

• LatinNow project, which produced multiple open access and a public
• Project Lead of Roman Inscriptions of Britain in Schools, 2022-, funded by UKRI Arts Impact Accelerator Account.
• Co-investigator on Canadian government Insight Development Grant project (SSHRC), led by Prof. Alex Meyer, University of Western Ontario, Illuminating the Vindolanda Stylus Tablets, 2020-2024.
• Co-director of the
• Founder and Director of the . The book on code-switching in Roman letters with Olivia Elder was an output of this network: The language of letters: bilingual Roman epistolography from Cicero to Fronto (Cambridge University Press, 2019). The database used in this volume is available .
• I have published an introduction to Gaulish with Coline Ruiz Darasse (CNRS, Paris): Gaulish. Language, Writing, Epigraphy (Zaragoza: University of Zaragoza Press, 2018) (commissioned for the series on ancient languages, funded by the EU-COST network), which is now also available in Spanish and French. I collaborated as a sociolinguistic expert on Ruiz Darasse's ANR project (Bordeaux) to republish in digital format all Gaulish inscriptions:

Future Research

In October 2026 I will begin a four-year project Voices of Britain Under and After Rome, with colleagues and partners at the , the , the , the , and the charity . This is funded with 拢1.4 million from the AHRC.

The project will analyse the evolution of languages and identities in Britain from the century before Roman rule to the seventh century AD. 鈥婤y integrating sociolinguistics, epigraphy, history, art history, and archaeology, the research will provide a comprehensive understanding of the cultural entanglements that influenced early British communities, emanating from within Britain itself and from Ireland, Scandinavia, and the northern Continent. 鈥�

The project will leverage cutting-edge technology, including bespoke AI models developed in recent projects, to analyse millions of data points and images from extensive datasets, such as Roman Inscriptions of Britain Online and the LatinNow project. This approach aims to uncover new insights into regional and social patterns, connectivities, and the experiences of communities under and after Roman rule.

• ALEX MULLEN and GEORGE WOUDHUYSEN, eds., 2023. Oxford University Press.
• ALEX MULLEN and GEORGE WOUDHUYSEN, 2023. . In: ALEX MULLEN and GEORGE WOUDHUYSEN, eds., Languages and Communities in the Late-Roman and Post-Imperial Western Provinces Language and History in the Late-Roman and Post-Imperial West. Oxford University Press. 1-34
• ALEX MULLEN, ed., 2023. Oxford University Press.
• ALEX MULLEN, 2023. In: ALEX, ed., Social dimensions of Latinization Oxford University Press. 1-23
• ALEX MULLEN, 2022. Transformations de la Gaule sous l鈥橢mpire romain : 茅mergence d鈥檜ne culture de l'茅crit dans la production de masse. In: MICH脠LE COLTELLONI-TRANNOY and NOEMI MONCUNILL, eds., La culture de l鈥櫭ヽrit en M茅diterran茅e occidentale 脿 travers les pratiques 茅pigraphiques (Gaule, Ib茅rie, Afrique du Nord) Peeters. (In Press.)
• ALEX MULLEN, 2022. A sociolinguistic and archaeological epigraphy: translingualism, uncertainty and inscribed Roman spindle whorls. In: ELERI COUSINS, ed., Dynamic Epigraphy: New Approaches to Inscriptions Oxford. 39鈥�64 (In Press.)
• ALEX MULLEN and ALAN BOWMAN, 2021.
• OLIVIA ELDER and ALEX MULLEN, 2019. The language of letters: bilingual Roman epistolography from Cicero to Fronto
• ALEX MULLEN and COLINE RUIZ DARASSE, 2019. Cultural and linguistic contact in southern Gaul. In: A. GARCIA SINNER and J. VELAZA, eds., Palaeohispanic Languages and Epigraphies Oxford University Press.
• MICHAEL LOY and ALEX MULLEN, 2019. A Greek inscription with rider iconography from South Shields, Britain ZPE. 207, (In Press.)
• ALEX MULLEN and COLINE RUIZ DARASSE, 2018. Gaulish. Language, Writing, Epigraphy University of Zaragoza Press.
• MULLEN, A., 2016. Sociolinguistics. In: MILLETT, M., MOORE, A. and REVELL, L., eds., The Oxford handbook to Roman Britain Oxford University Press. 573-598
• LACEY WALLACE, ALEX MULLEN, PAUL JOHNSON and LIEVEN VERDONCK, 2016. Archaeological Investigations of Bourne Park, Bishopsbourne, 2011-2014 Archaeologia Cantiana. 137, 251-279
• MULLEN, A., 2015. Language and literature. 24.3, 213鈥�232
• MULLEN, A., 2015. Bilingualism and Multilingualism in the Roman World. In: CLAYMAN, D., ed., Oxford Bibliographies in Classics Oxford University Press.
• PAVLENKO, A. and MULLEN, A., 2015. Why diachronicity matters in the study of linguistic landscapes Linguistic Landscapes. 1, 114鈥�132
• WALLACE, L., JOHNSON, P., STRUTT, K. and MULLEN, A., 2014. Archaeological investigations of a major building, probably Roman, and related landscape features at Bourne Park, Bishopsbourne, 2011鈥�2012 Archaeologia Cantiana. 134, 187鈥�204
• 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., 2013. The language of the potteries: communication in the production and trade of Gallo-Roman. In: FULFORD, M. and DURHAM, E., eds., Seeing red: new economic and social perspectives on terra sigillata 97鈥�110
• MULLEN, A., 2013. New thoughts on British Latin: a curse tablet from Red Hill, Ratcliffe-on-Soar (Nottinghamshire) ZPE. 187, 266鈥�272
• MULLEN, A., 2013. The bilingualism of material culture? Thoughts from a linguistic perspective HEROM. 2, 21鈥�43
• MULLEN, A., 2013. New thoughts on British Latin: a curse tablet from Red Hill, Ratcliffe-on-Soar (Nottinghamshire): ZPE ZPE. 187, 266鈥�272
• MULLEN, A and JAMES, P, eds., 2012. Multilingualism in the Graeco-Roman worlds Cambridge : Cambridge University Press.
• MULLEN, A., 2012. Introduction. Multiple languages, multiple identities. In: MULLEN, A. and JAMES, P., eds., Multilingualism in the Graeco-Roman worlds Cambridge University Press. 1鈥�35
• MULLEN, A., 2012. Celtic languages. In: BAGNALL, R., BRODERSEN, K., CHAMPION, C., ERSKINE, A. and HUEBNER, S., eds., Encyclopedia of ancient history
• MULLEN, A., 2011. Reflets du multiculturalisme: la cr茅ation et le d茅veloppement du gallo-grec. In: RUIZ DARASSE, C. and LUJ脕N, E. R., eds., Contacts linguistiques dans l'Occident m茅diterran茅en antique 227鈥�239
• MULLEN, A., 2011. Latin and other languages: societal and individual bilingualism. In: CLACKSON, J., ed., A companion to the Latin language 527鈥�548
• MULLEN, A., 2010. Review of Biville, F., Decourt, J.-C. and Rougemont, G. (eds) 2008 Bilinguismr gr茅co-latin et 茅pigraphie (Lyon) JHS. 130, 292鈥�293
• MULLEN, A., 2008. Rethinking 鈥淗ellenization鈥� in South-eastern Gaul: the Gallo-Greek epigraphic record. In: H脛USSLER, R., ed., Romanisation et 茅pigraphie. 脡tudes interdisciplinaires sur l鈥檃cculturation et l鈥檌dentit茅 dans l鈥橢mpire romain 249鈥�266
• MULLEN, A. and RUSSELL, P., 2007. http://www.asnc.cam.ac.uk/personalnames/
• MULLEN, A., 2007. Evidence for written Celtic from Roman Britain: a linguistic analysis of Studia Celtica. 31鈥�45
• MULLEN, A., 2007. Linguistic evidence for Romanization: continuity and change in Romano-British onomastics Britannia. 35鈥�61
• WALLACE, L., MULLEN, A., JOHNSON, P. and VERDONCK, L., Archaeological investigations of Bourne Park, Bishopsbourne, Kent 2011鈥�2014 Archaeologia Cantiana. (In Press.)
• MULLEN, A., Review of Adams, J. N. 2007 JRS. 98, 223鈥�224