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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

Room 1S7. First Floor, Arts Building
Albany Street, Dunedin

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

Frances Browne’s ‘Legends of Ulster’: The First Critical Edition. The blind Irish author Frances Browne (1816–1879) published a series of short stories called 'The Legends of Ulster’ between 1847 and 1852. Supported by an Otago Prestigious Writing Grant, Professor McLean will produce the first critical edition of these Gothic stories, which mix historical events with ghostly or mysterious occurrences.

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

  • University of Otago Prestigious Writing Grant, 2025
  • Frances Browne Award, Frances Browne Literary Festival, 2024
  • 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 bookcover image

Further letters of Joanna Baillie

The Other East and Nineteenth-Century British Literature bookcover image

The Other East and Nineteenth-Century British Literature

Thaddeus of Warsaw book cover image

Thaddeus of Warsaw

Publications

McLean, T. (2026, June). Sheridan Le Fanu, ‘Carmilla’. Things that go bump in the night: Gothic fiction, University of the Third Age (U3A), Dunedin, New Zealand. [Research Presentation]. Other Research Output

McLean, T. (2026, May). Edgar Allan Poe, ‘The Raven’, ‘The Fall of the House of Usher’ and ‘The Premature Burial’. Things that go bump in the night: Gothic fiction, University of the Third Age (U3A), Dunedin, New Zealand. [Research Presentation]. Other Research Output

McLean, T. (2026, May). Matthew Lewis, ‘The Monk’. Things that go bump in the night: Gothic fiction, University of the Third Age (U3A), Dunedin, New Zealand. [Research Presentation]. Other Research Output

McLean, T. (2026, March). The blind poetess of Ulster The Lyric Feature, hosted by Claire Cunningham. RTÉ Lyric FM, Ireland. Retrieved from https://www.rte.ie/radio/lyricfm/the-lyric-feature Other Research Output

McLean, T. (2026). The role of his life [Review of the book A spy amongst us]. New Zealand Listener, (28 March), 40-41. [Book Review]. Journal - Professional & Other Non-Research Articles

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