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    Most of us are familiar with the kooky, ooky, spoo Most of us are familiar with the kooky, ooky, spooky bunch that is the Addams Family. The latest iteration in this deliciously dark and Gothic tradition is Netflix’s Wednesday, and – to cut straight to the point – I absolutely adored it! Find out why in my latest review for Macquarie University’s Lighthouse magazine (online via the link in my bio) 🖤💀🫳🏻
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    Happy Halloween & also happy CFP day for “Victor Happy Halloween & also happy CFP day for “Victorian Gothic and the Occult”! Abstracts due Dec 31st, papers due Halloween 2023. Check out the full CFP via the link in my bio, send in those abstracts & please share widely 🙏! 🦇🔮👻✨

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    Over the moon to celebrate along with some of our Over the moon to celebrate along with some of our excellent Modern History @ArtsMResMQ researchers as they submitted their theses!! What a moment!! Can honestly say I have loved every minute of seeing through these past 2 years with you in the MRes! Congratulations!! 🎉#ArtsMResMQ
    This week marks the 175th Anniversary of Charlotte This week marks the 175th Anniversary of Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre! To celebrate, I recorded a special episode of From the Lighthouse (the podcast of the Discipline of Literature at Macquarie University) in conversation with special guest & @ArtsMResMQ researcher Rachel Baldacchino who is currently researching Charlotte Brontë. We talked about what makes the novel so enduring, Victorian approaches to the mind and madness, and all things Jane and Rochester and their film and TV adaptations! Check it out via the link in my bio!
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    Always nice to pop up on the @macquarieuni Twitter Always nice to pop up on the @macquarieuni Twitter! The amazing @shakeandstir Jane Eyre adaptation I reviewed is coming back to Sydney at the end of this month, and it’s well worth seeing! Check out why via the link in my profile 🖤
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Review of Wednesday, Netflix. Wednesday Addams pictured here in a Gothic scene.
Wednesday (Netflix): Review for MQU’s The Lighthouse
December 21, 2022 In All Blog Posts No Comment

Most of us are familiar with the kooky, ooky, spooky bunch that is the Addams Family, having grown up with some of the many adaptations and pop culture references to this long-running property spanning TV, film, comics and more. The […]

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Three nineteenth-century illustrations of Gothic and occult scenes. This image accompanies the CFP for Victorian Gothic and the Occult edited by Kirstin Mills.
CFP: Victorian Gothic and the Occult
October 31, 2022 In All Blog Posts No Comment

The Victorian era, and the Nineteenth Century more broadly, witnessed a flourishing of interest in the supernatural, spiritualism, magic, and the physical and psychological sciences, which culminated in the emergence of occult beliefs, practices and societies. During this period also, […]

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Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte 175th Anniversary
New podcast episode: 175th Anniversary of Jane Eyre
October 16, 2022 In All Blog Posts No Comment

This month we celebrate the 175th Anniversary of Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre. Published in October 1847 (sources vary as to whether it was the 16th or the 19th) as “An Autobiography” under the pseudonymous editorship of “Currer Bell”, this brooding, […]

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Why We're Still Haunted by Jane Eyre: A Review of the Shake and Stire Theatre Adaptation. Article written by Kirstin Mills
Why We’re Still Haunted by Jane Eyre: NEW Article for The Lighthouse Magazine
June 9, 2022 In All Blog Posts No Comment

A cold and clear moonlit night seemed the perfect time to travel back to the bewitching, Gothic realm of Jane Eyre. A favourite among classic Victorian novels, Charlotte Bronte’s mesmerising tale of the plucky orphan girl’s journey into womanhood and […]

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Academic Insights Seminar Series for Postgraduate Research Students, a seminar series by Master of Research Director Dr Kirstin Mills, Faculty of Arts, Macquarie University
New Academic Insights Seminar Series for Graduate Research Students
March 23, 2022 In All Blog Posts No Comment

I’m thrilled to launch my brand new ‘Academic Insights’ seminar series designed especially for graduate research students in Macquarie University’s Faculty of Arts with the first seminar “Why We Need Arts and Humanities Research in Today’s World.” This seminar is […]

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Lucas Malet, Palgrave Encyclopedia of Victorian Women's Writing, entry by Kirstin Mills
New Publication: Lucas Malet entry in Palgrave Encyclopedia of Victorian Women’s Writing
February 7, 2022 In All Blog Posts No Comment

I’m honoured to have contributed an entry on Victorian author Lucas Malet (Mary St. Leger Kingsley Harrison) to The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Victorian Women’s Writing, edited by Lesa Scholl, which is now published online [read it here]. Lucas Malet was […]

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Palgrave Handbook of Gothic Origins, Supernatural dreams and nightmare in Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Gothic Coleridge, Romantic Gothic
New publication: The Poetics of Space, the Mind, and the Supernatural in S. T. Coleridge
January 6, 2022 In All Blog Posts No Comment

My first post of 2022 is an exciting one for me: another publication is out in the world! “The Poetics of Space, the Mind, and the Supernatural in S. T. Coleridge” is my contribution to the excellent Palgrave Handbook of […]

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gothic research publications by Kirstin Mills in 2021
2021 Research Roundup
December 27, 2021 In All Blog Posts No Comment

Despite the ongoing pandemic that most of us are struggling with, 2021 has proven to be year of increased assurance, confidence and sense of direction for me than the (equally apocalyptic) previous year. At the start of 2020, right before […]

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  • Dr Kirstin Mills, writer, artist, illustrator, researcher, academic

    Kirstin Mills is an Australian artist, writer, and academic following her endless curiosity into realms of imagination and wonder. Read more about her life & projects here.

  • Recent Publications

    Gothic Dreams and Nightmares, edited by Carol Margaret Davison

    ‘Morphean Space and the metaphysics of nightmare: Gothic theories of dreaming in Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Notebooks’ in Gothic Dreams and Nightmares, 2024.

    Fairies: A Companion, featuring the chapter 'Fairies and Science' by Kirstin A. Mills. Book edited by Lorna Piatti-Farnell and Simon Bacon.

    ‘Fairies and Science.’ Fairies: A Companion, 2025.

    SEE ALL PUBLICATIONS

  • INCSA Journal and Series

    International Nineteenth Century Studies Association Book Series, Clemson University Press
    Advances in Nineteenth-Century Research (Routledge/Taylor and Francis)

    International Nineteenth-Century Studies Association Book Series (Clemson UP)

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    Happy New Year! Sending you all magic wishes for 2 Happy New Year! Sending you all magic wishes for 2023 ✨🔥 

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    Most of us are familiar with the kooky, ooky, spoo Most of us are familiar with the kooky, ooky, spooky bunch that is the Addams Family. The latest iteration in this deliciously dark and Gothic tradition is Netflix’s Wednesday, and – to cut straight to the point – I absolutely adored it! Find out why in my latest review for Macquarie University’s Lighthouse magazine (online via the link in my bio) 🖤💀🫳🏻
    Early birthday present! Hoping this will help me u Early birthday present! Hoping this will help me unwind after all the end-of-semester marking! #janeausten #puzzletime
    Loved speaking about ‘Lucas Malet’s Occult Got Loved speaking about ‘Lucas Malet’s Occult Gothic at the Victorian Fin de Siècle’ for the Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies International’s ‘Beyond the Veil’ event! Honoured to be amongst such great speakers & grateful for the brilliant discussions happening! Excellent way to spend a Halloween night! 👻🦇🖤
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#gothic #Occult #victoriangothic
    Happy Halloween & also happy CFP day for “Victor Happy Halloween & also happy CFP day for “Victorian Gothic and the Occult”! Abstracts due Dec 31st, papers due Halloween 2023. Check out the full CFP via the link in my bio, send in those abstracts & please share widely 🙏! 🦇🔮👻✨

#gothic #occult #CFP #literatureCFP #victorian #victorianliterature #victoriangothic #gothicliterature #spiritualism
    Over the moon to celebrate along with some of our Over the moon to celebrate along with some of our excellent Modern History @ArtsMResMQ researchers as they submitted their theses!! What a moment!! Can honestly say I have loved every minute of seeing through these past 2 years with you in the MRes! Congratulations!! 🎉#ArtsMResMQ
    This week marks the 175th Anniversary of Charlotte This week marks the 175th Anniversary of Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre! To celebrate, I recorded a special episode of From the Lighthouse (the podcast of the Discipline of Literature at Macquarie University) in conversation with special guest & @ArtsMResMQ researcher Rachel Baldacchino who is currently researching Charlotte Brontë. We talked about what makes the novel so enduring, Victorian approaches to the mind and madness, and all things Jane and Rochester and their film and TV adaptations! Check it out via the link in my bio!
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#OTD #brontë #brontesisters #victorian #victorianliterature #charlottebronte #charlottebrontë #books #booktok #bookaholic #podcast #bookcommunity #booklovers #gothicliterature #nineteenthcenturyliterature #classicliterature
    Always nice to pop up on the @macquarieuni Twitter Always nice to pop up on the @macquarieuni Twitter! The amazing @shakeandstir Jane Eyre adaptation I reviewed is coming back to Sydney at the end of this month, and it’s well worth seeing! Check out why via the link in my profile 🖤
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  • Recent Posts

    • Fairies: A Companion, edited by Lorna Piatti-Farnell and Simon Bacon. Featuring original research and illustrations by Kirstin Mills.
      Fairies and Science: New Publication
      September 12, 2025
    • Beetlejuice Beetlejuice promotional image depicting some of the cast members
      Beetlejuice Beetlejuice: Why We're Hooked on Horror (new article for MQU's The Lighthouse)
      September 10, 2024
    • Zahra Newman as Dracula for Sydney Theatre Company. Review by Kirstin Mills.
      Sydney Theatre Company's Dracula: Review for MQU Magazine
      July 15, 2024
    • New journal: Advances in Nineteenth-Century Research (Routledge)
      July 9, 2024
    • Gothic Dreams and Nightmares, edited by Carol Margaret Davison, with a chapter by Kirstin Mills titled 'Gothic Theories of Dreaming in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Notebooks.'
      New Publication: Gothic Theories of Dreaming in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Notebooks (Gothic Dreams and Nightmares)
      March 25, 2024
  • Recent Publication

    Gothic Dreams and Nightmares, edited by Carol Margaret Davison

    ‘Morphean Space and the metaphysics of nightmare: Gothic theories of dreaming in Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Notebooks’ in Gothic Dreams and Nightmares, 2024.
    SEE ALL PUBLICATIONS

  • Further links

    International Nineteenth Century Studies Association Book Series, Clemson University Press
    Advances in Nineteenth-Century Research (Routledge/Taylor and Francis)

    International Nineteenth-Century Studies Association Book Series (Clemson UP)

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