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Thomas McLean 2022 imageBA (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

Expertise

Romanticism, nineteenth-century literature and culture, the historical novel, literature and nationalism.

Teaching

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

Books

Publications

McLean, T. (2023). The kids are all right. New Zealand Listener, (26 August), 3.

McLean, T. (2023). The criminal's art [Review of the book The art thief]. New Zealand Listener, (7 October), 44-45. [Book Review].

McLean, T. (2023). A final walk with Olds. New Zealand Listener, (7 October), 35-37.

McLean, T. (2023). Beyond the frame. North & South, (June), 50-55.

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

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