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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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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 […]

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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 […]

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‘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 […]

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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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#macquarie #macquarieuniversity #macquarieuni #sunrise #sydney
    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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  • 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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