Kirstin Mills Art, Illustration, Academic Research and Teaching

Ballarat Victorian Architecture Travel Photography

Ballarat: A Victorian Adventure

April 3, 2017 In All Blog Posts Conferences Wanderings No Comment

“We had a wild, free life of it, sticking up a station from time to time, or stopping the wagons on the road to the diggings. Black Jack of Ballarat was the name I went under, and our party is […]

Summer Flower Garden at Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge

Magic, Mystics & George MacDonald, Trinity Hall, Cambridge

October 5, 2016 In Academic Research All Blog Posts Conferences Wanderings No Comment

Over three sun-drenched summer days in July of 2016, the magical grounds of Trinity Hall at the University of Cambridge, England, cast their spell over a group of scholars who had travelled to this ancient seat of learning in order […]

Video: International Scholars at ‘Consuming the Victorians’, Cardiff

September 28, 2016 In Academic Research All Blog Posts Conferences No Comment

The first of two short documentaries filmed and narrated by Kirstin Mills for the BAVS2016 ‘Consuming the Victorians’ conference in Cardiff, Wales. This film traces Kirstin’s footsteps as she travels to Cardiff, Wales and interviews some of the international scholars […]

Video: ‘Consuming the Victorians’, A Cardiff Conference

September 26, 2016 In Academic Research All Blog Posts Conferences Wanderings No Comment

The second of two short documentaries filmed and narrated by Kirstin Mills for the BAVS2016 ‘Consuming the Victorians’ conference in Cardiff, Wales. This film traces Kirstin’s footsteps as she travels to and experiences the many and varied aspects of the […]

Kirstin Mills as Alice in Wonderland at Wonderland Week, Homerton College, Cambridge

Alice in Wonderland 150th Anniversary, Cambridge

July 7, 2016 In Academic Research All Blog Posts Conferences Wanderings No Comment

What does a week of tea parties, croquet, banquets, and cards, all within the beautiful English gardens of Cambridge University look like? In September 2015, I packed my notebooks, pencils, and my most Alice-in-Wonderlandesque dress into a suitcase and headed for […]

Dr Kirstin Mills at Magdalen College, University of Oxford

George MacDonald, the Inklings, and Victorian Fantasy Conference, Oxford, UK

June 25, 2016 In Academic Research All Blog Posts Conferences Wanderings 2 Comments

In August 2014 I was honoured to travel to the beautiful University of Oxford in England and present my research at The George MacDonald Society 2014 conference, ‘Re-Imagining the Inklings: the Victorian Roots of Modern Fantasy’. I was particularly excited […]

‘Alice Through the Ages’ Conference, Cambridge, UK

June 4, 2016 In Academic Research All Blog Posts Conferences Wanderings No Comment

In September 2015, I packed my notebooks, pencils, and my most Alice-in-Wonderlandesque dress into a suitcase and headed for Cambridge, England. All around the world, exciting events were taking place to celebrate the 150th Anniversary of one of the best loved books […]