BA (Loyola), MA (Boston College), PhD (Iowa)
Contact details
Email thomas.mclean@otago.ac.nz
Tel +64 3 479 8635
Office
Room 1S7
First Floor
Arts Building
Albany Street
Dunedin
Mail
English and Linguistics
University of Otago
PO Box 56
Dunedin 9054
New Zealand
External webpages
- Academia – Thomas McLean
- North & South – Thomas McLean
- Los Angeles Review of Books – Thomas McLean
- Family Ties symposium
Expertise
Romanticism, nineteenth-century literature and culture, the historical novel, literature and nationalism.
Teaching
- ENGL 220 Creative Writing: Reading for Writers
- ENGL 241 Irish-Scots Gothic and the Gothic as Genre
- ENGL 313 Victorian Literature
- ENGL 335 Romantic Literature
- ENGL 341 Irish-Scots Gothic and the Gothic as Genre
- ENGL 404 Writing for Publication
- ENGL 471 Romantic Masterworks
Possible supervision
Nineteenth-century British and American literature.
Current research
Global Romantics: How the Porter Family Changed Nineteenth-Century Art and Literature. This project, funded by a three-year Marsden grant, will examine the lives and works of nineteenth-century British novelists Jane and Anna Maria Porter and their brother, the artist and traveller Sir Robert Ker Porter.
Recent awards and fellowships
- Marsden Fund Grant, Global Romantics: How the Porter Family Changed Nineteenth-Century Art and Literature, 2014 - 2017
- New York Public Library Short-Term Research Fellowship, December 2011.
- Australian National University Humanities Research Centre Fellowship, 2011.
- University of Otago Research Grants, 2006, 2008.
- 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