Rate My Professor Lesley Mclean

McLean’s research specializations include Animal Ethics as well as the intersections between alternative and popular religions, media, popular culture, and dark travel. Her key publications, many co-authored with Jenny Wise, explore representations of crime, criminals, cults, and convict histories in popular culture and dark tourism sites. These include Wise and McLean’s ‘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 (2023), Nolan, Wise, and McLean’s ‘The Clothes Maketh the Cult’ in M/C Journal (2023), Wise and McLean’s ‘19 Crimes and Mugshot Branding: Reappropriating Convict Narratives to Sell Crime, Criminals and Experiences’ in Journal of Criminal Justice and Popular Culture (2022), McLean and Wise’s ‘Charles Manson and his Family: “Human monsters, human mutants”’ in Australasian Journal of Popular Culture (2022), and Wise and McLean’s ‘The Separate Prison at Port Arthur: Transforming a Convict Site into a Memorial Museum with Digital Technology’ in The Memorial Museum in the Digital Age (2022). Earlier contributions encompass ‘Making Light of Convicts Branding ‘Bubbly’ with Offender Images’ in M/C Journal (2021), ‘“Pack of Thieves?”: The Visual Representation of Prisoners and Convicts in Dark Tourist Sites’ in The Palgrave Handbook of Incarceration in Popular Culture (2020), Lynch and McLean’s ‘How to do Animal Ethics’ in Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics (2016), ‘Animals, Place, People and Story: Relational Identities in Sacred Australian Country’ in Australian Folklore (2013), articles on Peter Singer’s Animal Liberation in Between the Species (2009), Fox and McLean’s ‘Animals in Moral Space’ in Animal Subjects: An Ethical Reader in a Posthuman World (2008), and ‘On responsible knowledge making and the moral standing of animals’ in Between the Species (2007).