Dr Thomas McLean
BA (Loyola) MA (Boston College)
PhD (Iowa)
| thomas.mclean@otago.ac.nz | |
| Phone | 64 3 479 8635 |
| Fax | 64 3 479 8558 |
| Office | 1S7 First Floor Arts Building Albany Street Dunedin |
| Department of English University of Otago PO Box 56 Dunedin New Zealand |
Expertise
Romanticism, Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture, the Historical Novel, Literature and Nationalism
Teaching
Possible Supervision
Nineteenth-Century British and American Literature
Current Research
A book-length study exploring representations of Eastern Europe in Nineteenth-Century British Literature and Culture.
A Biography and Bibliography of Jane Porter.
Publications
Further Letters of Joanna Baillie. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, forthcoming 2010.
"Jane Porter's Later Works, 1826-1846," Harvard Library Bulletin 20.4 (2009) forthcoming.
“A New Work by Margaret Hodson,” Notes & Queries 55.4 (2008) 434-435.
"One from Many: A New Chronology of Joanna Baillie's Letters," Utopianism and Joanna Baillie. Ed. Regina Hewitt. Romantic Circles, July 2008.
"Nobody's Argument: Jane Porter and the Historical Novel," Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies 7.2 (2007) 88-103.
"Joanna Baillie in New Zealand: Eight New Letters," Keats-Shelley Journal 54 (2005) 33-42.
"Arms and the Circassian Woman: Frances Browne's The Star of Atteghei," Victorian Poetry 41.3 (Fall 2003) 295-318.
"William Aytoun's 'Poland': 1832-1849," in Teresa Bela and Zygmunt Mazur, eds. The Legacy of History: English and American Studies and the Significance of the Past (Kraków: Jagiellonian University Press, 2003) 290-303.
"Jane Porter's Portrait of Benjamin West," Huntington Library Quarterly 66.1-2 (2003) 169-175.
"'Transformed, Not Inly Altered': Kosciuszko and Poland in Post-Waterloo Britain," Keats-Shelley Journal 50 (2001) 56-75.
Review of Francois Rosset, L'Arbre de Cracovie: Le mythe polonais dans la littérature française, in SubStance 94/95 30.1-2 (2001) 266-271.
"When Hope Bade the World Farewell: British Responses to the 1794 Kosciuszko Uprising," The Wordsworth Circle 29.3 (Summer 1998) 178-185.
Recent Awards and Fellowships
James M. Osborn Fellowship, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, January 2006
Houghton Mifflin Fellowship in Publishing History, Houghton Library, Harvard University, December 2005
UCLA Thayer Research Fellowship, July 2005
University of Indiana Everett Helm Visiting Fellowship, June 2005
Keats-Shelley Association Carl H. Pforzheimer Research Grant, 2004
University of Kansas Spencer Research Library Travel Grant, May 2004
Fletcher Jones Foundation Fellow of the Huntington Library, March 2004