Associate Professor Thomas McLean, Our people, English and Linguistics, University of Otago, New Zealand

Thomas McLean 2022 image BA (Loyola), MA (Boston College), PhD (Iowa)

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

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

Books

Further letters of Joanna Baillie

The Other East and Nineteenth-Century British Literature

Thaddeus of Warsaw

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Publications

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

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

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

McLean, T. (2022). Beyond Steampunk. North & South, (November), 80-81. Retrieved from https://northandsouth.co.nz/2022/11/20/oamaru-tourism-steampunk-whitestone-city-lear-artist

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

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., & Knezevich, R. (Eds.). (2019). Jane Porter: Thaddeus of Warsaw: A Novel. Edinburgh, Scotland: Edinburgh University Press, 440p.

Edited Book - Research

McLean, T. (Ed.). (2010). Further letters of Joanna Baillie. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 296p.

Edited Book - Research

Chapter in 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. (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. (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). 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. (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., & 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. (2012). Jane Porter and the wonder of Lord Byron. Romanticism, 18(3), 250-259. doi: 10.3366/rom.2012.0096

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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. (2008). A new work by Margaret Hodson. Notes & Queries, 253(4), 434-435. doi: 10.1093/notesj/gjn154

Journal - Research Article

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. (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.

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McLean, T. (2003). Arms and the Circassian woman: Frances Browne's ″The Star of Attéghéi″. Victorian Poetry, 41(3), 295-318.

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McLean, T. (2003). Jane Porter's portrait of Benjamin West. Huntington Library Quarterly, 66(1/2), 169-175.

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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

McLean, T. (2019). Brexit Britain: Was Jane Austen an original little Englander? The Conversation. Retrieved from https://theconversation.com/brexit-britain-was-jane-austen-an-original-little-englander-128478

Journal - Research Other

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). Introduction: Family ties. Victorians, 133, 1-6. doi: 10.1353/vct.2018.0001

Journal - Research Other

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. (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. (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. (2010). Two new Elizabeth Gaskell letters from a New Zealand collection [Note]. Gaskell Journal, 24, 128-130.

Journal - Research Other

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. (2022). Almost famous [Culture etc.]. North & South, (September), 65-69. Retrieved from https://northandsouth.co.nz/2022/09/10/burns-keats-joyce-bronte-links-to-new-zealand