One of the most exciting things as a researcher is seeing writing, long worked for behind-the-scenes, finally enter the world! I’m so pleased to share that my latest article, ‘Haunted by “Lenore”: The Fragment as Gothic Form, Creative Practice and Textual Evolution’, has just been published in Gothic Studies (the premiere journal in my field)!
(more…)I recently had the honour of being interviewed on ABC Radio Sydney for a segment on why we love to return to and reimagine the Victorian era. I joined ABC Evenings host Sarah Macdonald to chat about some of the many reasons why the Victorian era – and the nineteenth-century more broadly – is such a continued fascination for audiences and the creators of popular television, films, literature and other media. This interview followed an article I wrote recently for Macquarie University’s The Lighthouse magazine, and it was so much fun to discuss this fascinating subject on radio. From penny-farthings to Penny Dreadful, and with a good dose of fairies, ghosts and the Gothic, I hope you enjoy listening to this interview, excerpted and edited here from the full episode aired on 13 July 2021.
Here in Sydney, it’s cold, rainy, and we’re in the midst of another greater city-wide lockdown. You know what that means? Perfect TV binging time!
In my latest story for Macquarie University’s The Lighthouse, I wrote about why modern television loves to revisit and reimagine the Victorian era, and reviewed three of my recent Victorian-era TV binges (including The Nevers, pictured above)!
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Do you believe in ghosts? Earlier this year I had the pleasure of being interviewed about all things ghosts and ghost stories by an incredibly talented group of students from the Department of Media, Communication, Creative Arts, Language and Literature in Macquarie University’s Faculty of Arts (where I currently lead the Master of Research program). These students were producing a short documentary around the infamous ghost legends attached to a lonely stretch of road called The Wakehurst Parkway in Sydney’s Northern Beaches (I was also recently interviewed about that for a newspaper article: read here), and they were an absolute blast to work with.
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I’m very excited to share my latest article “The Supernatural Fourth Dimension in Lucas Malet’s The Carissima and The Gateless Barrier” which is included in The Palgrave Handbook of Steam Age Gothic. This article is the first examination of Lucas Malet’s work against the exciting Victorian phenomenon of the supernatural fourth dimension. While much of my research has focused on space, the supernatural and the fourth dimension, this article is my first published foray into the wonderful writing of Lucas Malet.
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I recently had the pleasure of being interviewed by Nadine Morton from local Sydney magazine The Northern Beaches Review about all things spectral and spooky for the February 24 cover story on local ghost legends and the various hauntings and spectral spots that dot the Northern Coastal regions of Sydney. The story itself is well worth a read, with many spine-chilling tales from around the area. I weighed in from my Gothic and supernatural literary perspective on what it is about ghost stories that makes them so appealing to us time and time again. The story was also run in The Canberra Times.
Read the interview and the full story below!
The Northern Beaches Review: https://www.northernbeachesreview.com.au/story/7135446/is-the-parkway-ghost-linked-to-a-real-missing-person/?cs=20192
Or flick through the digital magazine: https://digital-print-edition.austcommunitymedia.com.au/NBR/2021/02/24/3dissue/index.html
The Canberra Times: https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/7142563/is-this-well-known-ghost-linked-to-a-real-missing-person/
Kirstin Mills is an Australian artist, writer, lecturer and researcher following her endless curiosity into realms of imagination and wonder. Read more about her life & projects here.
