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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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    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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    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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Frankenstein at 200, Frankenstein, Frankenweek, 200th Anniversary, Frankenreads, Mary Shelley, Villa Diodati, Percy Shelley, Byron, Polidori, Ghost Stories, Summer of 1816, 1816, Italy, Blog, Gothic, Novel, Kirstin Mills
The Birth of Frankenstein: Ghost Stories, Vampires & Villa Diodati (Anniversary Series #1)
October 24, 2018 In Academic Research All Blog Posts No Comment

Today marks the beginning of Frankenweek, and I’m celebrating with the first post in my Frankenstein at 200: Anniversary Blog Series. The story of the birth of Frankenstein as part of a ghost-story-telling competition in a storm-lashed lakeside villa is […]

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Frankenstein at 200: Special Anniversary Blog Series
October 18, 2018 In Academic Research All Blog Posts No Comment

This year marks 200 years of one of the world’s most famous and enduring novels: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. First published in 1818, it quickly became a perpetually reincarnating creature of its own, transforming through multiple retellings, adaptations, references and parodies […]

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Elle Fanning as Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein
‘Mary Shelley’ Film Review: Beauty? Yes! Truth? Not so much… (& new podcast!)
July 4, 2018 In Academic Research All Blog Posts Reviews No Comment

“Her greatest love inspired her darkest creation.” So reads the poster tagline of the 2018 film Mary Shelley, starring Elle Fanning. A creative re-imagining of Mary Shelley’s life leading up to the publication of Frankenstein – the novel for which […]

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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Portrait of Mary Shelley
Interview: Mary Shelley, Mental Health and Travel Writing
February 17, 2018 In Academic Research All Blog Posts Conferences No Comment

I was recently interviewed by the Keats-Shelley Association of America (KSAA) about my research into Mary Shelley, mental health, travel writing and the gothic, which I presented last September at The Shelleys conference in London. This morning I awoke to […]

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Alice in Wonderland Sand Sculpture Exhibition – Sydney, Australia, 2018
January 29, 2018 In Academic Research All Blog Posts Reviews No Comment

This January saw the marvellous and topsy-turvy world of Wonderland brought to life in three-dimensional glory in the sun-baked grounds of Blacktown Showground on the outskirts of Sydney, Australia. Using more than 250 tonnes of sand, ten Australian and International […]

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Lunar Folklore: Moon Magic, Weather Lore and Science
November 16, 2017 In Academic Research All Blog Posts Folklore No Comment

Silver-sickled, celestial, circling satellite suspended in star-slung, far-flung skies. Full-bellied billowing, voluminously glittering, luminously glistering in lunatics’ eyes. The thrice-spinning moon threads stories through time, spun with the world-wending wisdom of old. Prophesying poetry: there is magic in words; the […]

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Lewis Carroll’s Letter on Kindness & New Illustration for World Kindness Day
November 13, 2017 In Academic Research All Blog Posts Art & Illustration 2 Comments

Today, the 13th of November, is World Kindness Day – a day, established in 1998, to celebrate and embody kindness in all its forms. I truly believe that above beauty, above talent, above success, above wealth, above anything else, one […]

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Werewolves, Witches and Ghosts (Oh My!): New Halloween Podcast Episode
October 27, 2017 In Academic Research All Blog Posts News, Announcements & Events Reviews No Comment

As a Gothic scholar and long-time lover of all things eerie, spooky, and supernatural, I was honoured to chat recently about some of my favourite scary texts and traditions for a new Halloween-themed episode of From the Lighthouse, the podcast […]

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  • Dr Kirstin Mills, writer, artist, illustrator, travel writer, explorer, academic

    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.

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    Magic moments of quiet serenity at @macquarieuni b Magic moments of quiet serenity at @macquarieuni before the hustle and bustle of the day begins ✨ 
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    Happy New Year! Sending you all magic wishes for 2 Happy New Year! Sending you all magic wishes for 2023 ✨🔥 

#NewYear #newyear2023
    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

    • Review of Wednesday, Netflix. Wednesday Addams pictured here in a Gothic scene.
      Wednesday (Netflix): Review for MQU's The Lighthouse
      December 21, 2022
    • 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
    • Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte 175th Anniversary
      New podcast episode: 175th Anniversary of Jane Eyre
      October 16, 2022
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    Happy New Year! Sending you all magic wishes for 2 Happy New Year! Sending you all magic wishes for 2023 ✨🔥 

#NewYear #newyear2023
    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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#janeeyre #charlottebronte #charlottebrontë #brontesisters #gothic #gothicliterature #victoriangothic #victorianliterature #theatre #sydney #sydneylife #thingstodosydney #sydneytheatre
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