Проходил обучение в Оксфордском университете, где защитил докторскую диссертацию.
В 1990 году переехал в Японию, став преподавателем факультета права Университета Кейо.
Нил Маклин был назначен преподавателем поздней римской истории колледжа "Corpus Christi" (Оксфордский университет) 1 апреля 2007 года.
Научные интересы: религиозно-политические отношения в эпоху Поздней античности, богословские взгляды великих каппадокийцев, богословское учение блаженного Августина.Избранные публикации:
Ambrose of Milan: Church and Court in a Christian Capital, University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1994.
Christian Politics and Religious Culture in Late Antiquity, Ashgate, forthcoming 2009
‘The Other Olympias: Gregory Nazianzen and the Family of Vitalianus’: Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentums 2 (1998), 227–46.
Christian Politics and Religious Culture in Late Antiquity (Variorum collected studies series, Ashgate, Aldershot, 2009)
‘Poetic creativity and political crisis in early fifth-century Gaul’, Journal of Late Antiquity 2 (2009), 60-74
‘Augustine’s Roman Empire’: in History, Apocalypse and the Secular Imagination, ed. M. Vessey and K. Pohlmann (Bowling Green, 1999) (=Augustinian Studies 30.2), 29–44.
‘Gregory Nazianzen’s Basil: The Literary Construction of a Christian Friendship’: Studia Patristica 37 (2001), 178–93.
‘Seeing and Believing: Aspects of Conversion from Antoninus Pius to Louis the Pious’: in Seeing and Believing: Conversion in Late Antiquity, ed. A. Grafton and K. Mills (Rochester, NY, 2003), 224–70.
‘The Transformations of Imperial Churchgoing in the Fourth Century’: in Approaching Late Antiquity, ed. M. Edwards and S. Swain (Oxford, 2004), 235–70.
‘What was the “Philocalia of Origen”?’: Meddelanden från Collegium Patristicum Lundense 19 (2004), 32–43.
‘Genere Hispanus: Theodosius, Spain and Nicene Orthodoxy’: in Hispania in Late Antiquity: Current Perspectives, ed. K. Bowes and M. Kulikowski (Leiden, 2005), 77–120.
‘Death in Verona. Part 1: Paul the Deacon and King Alboin of the Lombards’: Kyoyo-Ronso 123 (2005), 135–55.
‘Disciplines of Discipleship in Late Antique Education: Augustine and Gregory Nazianzen’: in Augustine and the Disciplines: From Cassiciacum to Confessions, ed. M. Vessey and K. Pollmann (Oxford, 2005), 49–65.
‘Among the Hellenists: Gregory and the Sophists’: in Gregory of Nazianzus: Images and Reflections, ed. J. Børtnes and T. Hägg (Copenhagen, 2006), 213–38.
‘Curiales into Churchmen: The Case of Gregory Nazianzen’: in Le trasformazioni delle élites in età tardoantica: atti del convegno internazionale, Perugia, 15–16 marzo 2004, ed. R. Lizzi Testa (Rome, 2006), 277–95
‘Little Wolf in the Big City: Ulfila and his Interpreters’: in Wolf Liebeschuetz Reflected, ed. J. Drinkwater and B. Salway (London, 2007), 125–35.
‘Mind Games in Late Antique Cappadocia’: in Corners of the Mind: Classical Traditions, East and West, ed. S. Nakagawa and T. Nishimura (Tokyo, 2007), 75–108.
‘The Politics of Conversion: Augustine, Ambrose and Monnica in Milan, 386–87’, The Journal of Western History [Seoul, Korea] 37 (2007), 173–205.
‘Crying Wolf: The Pope and the Lupercalia’, Journal of Roman Studies 98 (2008), 161–75
‘Pagans in a Christian Empire’, in The Blackwell Companion to Late Antiquity, ed. P. Rousseau (Oxford, 2009), 572-58
Публикации, представленные в Интернете:
- Neil McLynn (2007). Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies (S.) Métivier La Cappadoce, IVe-VIe Siècle. Une Histoire Provinciale de l'Empire Romain d'Orient. (Byzantina Sorbonensia 22). Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne, 2005. Pp. 496. Maps. 32. 2859445226. Journal of Hellenic Studies 127:253-.
- Neil McLynn (2002). Panegyric and Biography T. Hägg, P. Rousseau (Edd.): Greek Biography and Panegyric in Late Antiquity . Pp. XII + 288. Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 2000. Cased, £30. Isbn: 0-520-22388-. The Classical Review 52 (01):46-.
- Neil McLynn (1990). Church and State Under Constantius II. The Classical Review 40 (02):392-.
- Neil McLynn (1990). Santo Mazzarino: Storia Sociale Del Vescovo Ambrogio (Problemi E Ricerche di Storia Antica, 4.) Pp. 101; 16 Plates. Rome: 'L'Erma' di Bretschneider, 1989. Paper. The Classical Review 40 (02):511-.