Dr Lesley McLean

Lecturer in Philosophy and Religion - Faculty of Humanities, Arts, Social Sciences and Education; School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

Lesley McLean

Phone: +61 2 6773 2706

Email: lmclean4@une.edu.au

Biography

Dr Lesley McLean is Lecturer in Philosophy and Studies in Religion in the School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences. She has taught in a range of disciplines at UNE, but primarily Studies in Religion with a broad focus on religion and popular culture.

Qualifications

BA (Hons) Studies in Religion, PhD (UNE) Philosophy

Teaching Areas

Lesley coordinates the following units:

RELS184 Magic and the Supernatural in History and Culture
RELS380 Exploring the Sacred
RELS300/500 New Religions, Media and Popular Culture
RELS385/585 Women, Gender and the World’s Religions

Research Interests

Lesley McLean’s teaching and research interests are broad and interdisciplinary. She completed a PhD in Philosophy in 2006 in the area of Animal Ethics.  Her current research focus explores sites of intersection between alternative and popular religions, media, pop-culture and [dark] travel.

Publications

Wise, J. & McLean, L. ‘Crime Experiences at Dark or ‘Gothic’ Tourism Sites: Edutainment and Storytelling at the Melbourne Watch House (Australia)’ in Aeternum: The Journal of Contemporary Gothic Studies, Vol. 10, 2023, pp. 45-68. https://www.aeternumjournal.com/volume-10.

Nolan, H., Wise, J. & McLean, L. ‘The Clothes Maketh the Cult’, in M/C Journal, Vol. 26, Iss. 1, 2023, pp. 1-10. https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/55058.

Wise, J. & McLean, L. ’19 Crimes and Mugshot Branding: Reappropriating Convict Narratives to Sell Crime, Criminals and Experiences, in Journal of Criminal Justice and Popular Culture, Vol. 22, Iss. 2, 2022, pp. 40-63.https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5b0ee82df793927c77add8b6/t/626d6931df6cb02eb0b4fcde/165.

McLean, L. & Wise, J. ‘Charles Manson and his Family: “Human monsters, human mutants”’, Australasian Journal of Popular Culture, Vol. 11, Iss. 1/2, 2022, pp. 179-193.

Wise, J. & McLean, L. ‘The Separate Prison at Port Arthur: Transforming a Convict Site into a Memorial Museum with Digital Technology’, The Memorial Museum in the Digital Age, 2022, pp. 89-120, Brighton, UK: REFRAME Books.  https://reframe.sussex.ac.uk/the-memorial-museum-in-the-digital-age/.

Wise, J. & McLean, L. ‘Making Light of Convicts Branding ‘Bubbly’ with Offender Images,’ in M/C Journal, Vol. 24, Iss. 1, 2021, pp. 1-12. 10.5204/mcj.2737.

Wise, J. & McLean, L. ‘“Pack of Thieves?”: The Visual Representation of Prisoners and Convicts in Dark Tourist Sites’ in The Palgrave handbook of Incarceration in Popular Culture
, ed. M. Harmes, M. Harmes & B. Harmes, Cham, Switzerland, Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, pp. 555-573. 10.1007/978-3-030-36059-7_34.

Lynch, A. & McLean, L. ‘How to do Animal Ethics’, in Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics, Vol. 29, Iss. 4, 2016, pp. 597-606. DOI 10.1007/s10806-016-9622-y.

‘Animals, Place, People and Story: Relational Identities in Sacred Australian Country’, Australian Folklore, vol. 28, 2013, pp. 207-217.

‘How ought we live with nonhuman animals? Peter Singer’s Answer: Animal Liberation Part I’, Between the Species, Vol. 13, Iss. 9, 2009, http://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/bts/vol13/iss9/.

‘How ought we live with nonhuman animals? Peter Singer’s Answer: Animal Liberation Part II’, Between the Species, Vol. 13, Iss. 9, 2009, http://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/bts/vol13/iss9/.

Fox, M. & McLean, L. ‘Animals in Moral Space’, in Animal Subjects: An Ethical Reader in a Posthuman World, ed. C. J. Castricano, Waterloo, Ontario, Wilfrid Laurier Press,  2008, pp. 145-174.

‘On responsible knowledge making and the moral standing of animals: questioning what matters and why about animal minds’, Between the Species, Vol. 13, iss. 7, 2007, http://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/bts/vol13/iss7/.

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