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
McLean, T. (2023). The kids are all right. New Zealand Listener, (26 August), 3.
Journal - Professional & Other Non-Research Articles
McLean, T. (2023). The criminal's art [Review of the book The art thief]. New Zealand Listener, (7 October), 44-45. [Book Review].
Journal - Professional & Other Non-Research Articles
McLean, T. (2023). A final walk with Olds. New Zealand Listener, (7 October), 35-37.
Journal - Professional & Other Non-Research Articles
McLean, T. (2023). Beyond the frame. North & South, (June), 50-55.
Journal - Professional & Other Non-Research Articles
McLean, T. (2023). "Poland has no claim on you”: By Celia’s Arbour and British representations of Poland in the Victorian era. In M. A. Bowers & B. Dew (Eds.), Polish culture in Britain. Literature and history, 1772 to the present. (pp. 113-133). Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-32188-7_6
Chapter in Book - Research
McLean, T. (2023). [Review of the book L.E.L.: The lost life and scandalous death of Letitia Elizabeth Landon, the celebrated 'female Byron']. Romanticism, 29(1), 102-105. doi: 10.3366/rom.2023.0588
Journal - Research Other
McLean, T. (2023). The costs of women's writing: On Devoney Looser's "Sister Novelists" [Review of the book Sister novelists: The trailblazing Porter sisters, who paved the way for Austen and the Brontës] [Reviews]. Los Angeles Review of Books, (2 February). Retrieved from https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-costs-of-womens-writing-on-devoney-loosers-sister-novelists/
Journal - Professional & Other Non-Research Articles
McLean, T. (2023). Returning to the scene of the crime [Culture etc.]. North & South, (March), 68-71.
Journal - Professional & Other Non-Research Articles
McLean, T. (2023). Gorse! What is it good for? [Culture etc.]. North & South, (February), 67-69.
Journal - Professional & Other Non-Research Articles
McLean, T. (2023). Jane Porter (1775-1850). In A. R. Hawkins, C. S. Blackwell & E. L. Bonds (Eds.), Routledge companion to romantic women writers. (pp. 397-405). London, UK: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315613536-43
Chapter in Book - Research
McLean, T. (2023). Anna Maria Porter (1778–1832). In A. R. Hawkins, C. S. Blackwell & E. L. Bonds (Eds.), Routledge companion to romantic women writers. (pp. 391-396). London, UK: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315613536-42
Chapter in Book - Research
McLean, T. (2023). Gorse is people. In T. Ballantyne (Ed.), The making and remaking of Australasia: Mobility, texts and 'southern circulations'. (pp. 183-196). London, UK: Bloomsbury. doi: 10.5040/9781350283862.ch-010
Chapter in Book - Research
McLean, T. (2022, June). Writings of Robert Louis Stevenson: Gothic novels,
Jekyll and Hyde. Robert Louis Stevenson. University of the Third Age, Dunedin, New Zealand. [Research Presentation].
Other Research Output
McLean, T. (2022). Porter, Anna Maria. In N. Duquette (Ed.), The Palgrave encyclopedia of romantic-era women's writing. (Online ed.) (pp. 1-5). Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-11945-4_90-1
Chapter in Book - Research
McLean, T. (2022). Cromwell, warts and all [Four corners]. North & South, (March).
Journal - Professional & Other Non-Research Articles
McLean, T. (2019, December). Imagining gorse. Verbal presentation at the Southern Circulations Symposium: Texts, Mobility, and the Production of Australasia, Dunedin, New Zealand.
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
McLean, T., & Knezevich, R. (Eds.). (2019). Jane Porter: Thaddeus of Warsaw: A Novel. Edinburgh, Scotland: Edinburgh University Press, 440p.
Edited Book - Research
McLean, T. (2019). Family news: Poland, South America, and the Porter family. In J. Macleod, W. Christie & P. Denney (Eds.), Politics and emotions in Romantic periodicals. (pp. 195-210). Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-32467-4_10
Chapter in Book - Research
McLean, T. (October, 2019) Creating lives from letters? And what business do we even have looking at them? MindJam. Yonder, Queenstown, New Zealand. [Public Discussion].
Other Research Output
Moore, G. (co-curator), & McLean, T. (co-curator) (2018, 15 June-31 August). All the year round: Exploring the Nineteenth-century periodical. De Beer Gallery, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. [Exhibition].
Exhibition
Lederer, S., Jones, G., McLean, T., & Ramaeker, P. (October, 2018). Frankenstein 200th anniversary. Otago College of Education Auditorium, Dunedin, New Zealand. [Public Discussion].
Other Research Output
McLean, T. (2018). [Review of the book Poland in the Irish Nationalist Imagination, 1772-1922: Anti-Colonialism within Europe]. English Historical Review, 133(563), 992-994. doi: 10.1093/ehr/cey197
Journal - Research Other
McLean, T. (2018). Family portraits: The life and art of Alice Mary Chambers. Victorians, 133, 69-83. doi: 10.1353/vct.2018.0006
Journal - Research Article
McLean, T. (2018). Introduction: Family ties. Victorians, 133, 1-6. doi: 10.1353/vct.2018.0001
Journal - Research Other
McLean, T. (2017, November). On the margins of genre and history: Sir Edward Seaward's Narrative. Verbal presentation at the 115th Annual Conference of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA), Honolulu, USA.
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
McLean, T. (2017, September). Family news: The Porters and South America. Verbal presentation at the Politics, Emotions, and the Periodical Press, c. 1760-1830 Conference, Canberra, Australia.
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
McLean, T., & Knezevich, R. (2017, February). Global romantics: How the Porter family shaped nineteenth-century art and literature. Verbal presentation at the Family Ties Symposium: Exploring Kinship and Creative Production in Nineteenth-Century Britain, Dunedin, New Zealand.
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
McLean, T., & Moore, G. (2017). The concluding page of an Angrian story by Branwell Brontë. Notes & Queries, 64(4), 607-611. doi: 10.1093/notesj/gjx159
Journal - Research Article
McLean, T. (2016, July). A new portrait of Mary Anderson by Alice Mary Chambers. Verbal presentation at the Australian Historical Association Conference: From Boom to Bust, Ballarat, Australia.
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
McLean, T. (2016, August). Discontented donors: Sir Robert Ker Porter's gifts to the nation. Verbal presentation at the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR) Annual Conference: Romanticism and Its Discontents, Berkeley, USA.
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
McLean, T. (2016, April). The Porter family panorama. Verbal presentation at the 37th Annual Nineteenth Century Studies (NCS) Conference: The New and the Novel in the Nineteenth Century/New Directions in Nineteenth Century Studies, Lincoln, USA.
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Knezevich, R. (co-curator), & McLean, T. (co-curator) (2016-2017). Keeping it in the Family: British and Irish Literary Generations, 1770-1930. De Beer Gallery, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. [Exhibition].
Exhibition
McLean, T. (2016, September). Global romantics: How the Porter family shaped nineteenth-century art and literature. Verbal presentation at the Matariki Humanities Colloquium: Literatures, Durham, UK.
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
McLean, T. (2016). [Review of the book Romantic feuds: Transcending the 'age of personality']. Keats-Shelley Review, 30(2), 171-173. doi: 10.1080/09524142.2016.1205882
Journal - Research Other
McLean, T. (2015). Russia. In D. Felluga, P. K. Gilbert & L. K. Hughes (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Victorian literature. Chichester, UK: Blackwell. doi: 10.1111/b.9781118405383.2015.x
Chapter in Book - Research
McLean, T. (2014, September). From Babylon to the British Museum: Robert Ker Porter's Near Eastern gambit. Verbal presentation at the International Conference on Romanticism (ICR): Romantic Reflections: Twins, Echoes, and Appropriations, Minneapolis, MN.
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
McLean, T. (2014). In their hands: Students editing eighteenth-and nineteenth-century letters. ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830, 4(2), 2. doi: 10.5038/2157-7129.4.2.2
Journal - Research Other
McLean, T. (2013, September). Byron, Russia, and Sardanapalus. Verbal presentation at the 20th International Conference on Romanticism: Romantic Relations, Rochester, MI.
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
McLean, T. (2013). Dracula's blood of many brave races. In M. Tromp, M. K. Bachman & H. Kaufman (Eds.), Fear, loathing, and Victorian xenophobia. (pp. 331-346). Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press.
Chapter in Book - Research
McLean, T. (2012). [Review of the book The collected poems of Amelia Alderson Opie]. Keats-Shelley Journal, LXI, 157-159. [Book Review].
Journal - Research Other
McLean, T. (2012). [Review of the book Writing the lives of painters: Biography and artistic identity in Britain 1760-1810]. Review 19. Retrieved from http://www.nbol-19.org/view_doc.php?index=256
Journal - Research Other
McLean, T. (2012). Jane Porter and the wonder of Lord Byron. Romanticism, 18(3), 250-259. doi: 10.3366/rom.2012.0096
Journal - Research Article
McLean, T. (2012). Porter, Jane. In F. Burwick (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Romantic literature. Chichester, UK: Blackwell. doi: 10.1111/b.9781405188104.2012.x
Chapter in Book - Research
McLean, T. (2011). The other East and nineteenth-century British literature: Imagining Poland and the Russian Empire. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 216p. doi: 10.1057/9780230355217
Authored Book - Research
McLean, T. (2011). Jane Porter's later works, 1825-1846. Harvard Library Bulletin, 20(2, Summer 2009), 45-62.
Journal - Research Article
McLean, T. (2011). Offstage dramas: Jane Porter, Edmund Kean, and the tragedy of Switzerland. Keats-Shelley Review, 25(2), 147-159. doi: 10.1179/095241411x13089108037409
Journal - Research Article
McLean, T. (2011, February). Climate change: Scottish writers and Poland, 1830-1849. Verbal presentation at the Centre for Irish & Scottish Studies Symposium on the History and Literature of the Scottish Diaspora: Global Scots, Dunedin, New Zealand.
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
McLean, T. (2010). Two new Elizabeth Gaskell letters from a New Zealand collection [Note]. Gaskell Journal, 24, 128-130.
Journal - Research Other
McLean, T. (2010, August). Jane Porter's lives. Verbal presentation at the 18th Annual North American Society for the Study of Romanticism Conference: Romantic Mediations, Vancouver, Canada.
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
McLean, T. (Ed.). (2010). Further letters of Joanna Baillie. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 296p.
Edited Book - Research
McLean, T. (2008). One from many: A new chronology of Joanna Baillie's letters. Romantic Circles Praxis Series: Utopianism and Joanna Baillie, July. Retrieved from http://www.rc.umd.edu/praxis/utopia/mclean/mclean.html
Journal - Research Article
McLean, T. (2008). A new work by Margaret Hodson. Notes & Queries, 253(4), 434-435. doi: 10.1093/notesj/gjn154
Journal - Research Article
McLean, T. (2008, August). Joanna Baillie: New letters and a new chronology. Verbal presentation at the 16th Annual North American Society for the Study of Romanticism Conference, Toronto, Canada.
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Marshall, S., McLean, T., & Tribble, L. (2008, September). CVs and job search. Verbal presentation at the University of Otago, Department of English Graduate Forum, Dunedin, New Zealand.
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
McLean, T. (2007). Sardanapalus and his (C)zarina: Byron and Russia. Proceedings of the Thirteenth David Nichol Smith Seminar in Eighteenth-Century Studies. English Department, University of Otago. Retrieved from http://www.otago.ac.nz/English/DNS13/programme.html
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract
McLean, T. (2007). Nobody's argument: Jane Porter and the historical novel. Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies, 7(2), 88-103.
Journal - Research Article
McLean, T. (2005). Joanna Baillie in New Zealand: Eight new letters. Keats-Shelley Journal, 54, 33-42.
Journal - Research Article
McLean, T. E. (2004). The other East: Poland, Russia, and British romanticism (PhD). University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA. 188p.
Awarded Doctoral Degree
McLean, T. (2004, September). ′That Woman, lovely Woman! may have dominion′: Catherine II and Blake′s Europe. Verbal presentation at the 12th Annual North American Society for the Study of Romanticism Conference, Boulder, CO, USA.
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
McLean, T. (2004, April). Offstage dramas: Jane Porter, Edmund Kean, and Switzerland. Verbal presentation at the 19th Annual Conference of Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies, Iowa, USA.
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
McLean, T. (2003, August). From Poland to Scotland: Jane Porter and the historical novel. Verbal presentation at the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism Conference, New York, NY, USA.
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
McLean, T. (2003). Arms and the Circassian woman: Frances Browne's ″The Star of Attéghéi″. Victorian Poetry, 41(3), 295-318.
Journal - Research Article
McLean, T. (2003). William Aytoun's ″Poland″: 1832-1849. Proceedings of the Legacy of History: English and American Studies and the Significance of the Past.1, (pp. 290-303). Krakow, Poland: Jagiellonian University Press. [Full Paper]
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper
McLean, T. (2003). Jane Porter's portrait of Benjamin West. Huntington Library Quarterly, 66(1/2), 169-175.
Journal - Research Article
McLean, T. (2001, June). Jane Porter′s Polish hero. Verbal presentation at the Romantic Nationalisms 1750-1850 Conference, Roehampton, UK.
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
McLean, T. (2001, July). Selling a King′s collection: The French and Polish sources of the Dulwich Picture Gallery. Verbal presentation at the Textual Intersections in the Nineteenth Century Conference: European Literatures, Histories, Arts, Cardiff, UK.
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
McLean, T. (2001). [Review of the book L′Arbre de Cracovie: Le mythe polonais dans la littérature française]. SubStance, 30(1-2), 266-271.
Journal - Research Other
McLean, T. (2001). ″Transformed, not inly altered″: Kosciuszko and Poland in post-Waterloo Britain. Keats-Shelley Journal, 50, 64-83. Retrieved from http://www.luc.edu/publications/keats-shelley/toc.htm
Journal - Research Article