Latest Publications:

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, ed. Lorna Piatti-Farnell and Simon Bacon, 2025.

Available via Publisher’s Website.

The Palgrave Handbook of the Zombie, featuring the chapter 'Frankenstein and the Sciences of the Undead' by Kirstin A. Mills.

‘Frankenstein and the Sciences of the Undead.’ The Palgrave Handbook of the Zombie, ed. Simon Bacon, 2025.

Available via Publisher’s Website.

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’ Gothic Dreams and Nightmares, ed. Carol Margaret Davison, Manchester University Press, 2024, pp. 62-82.

Available via Publisher’s Website.

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Research Interests:

The Gothic, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Romantic Literature, Victorian Literature, Literature and Science, the Supernatural, Space, Dreams and Nightmare, Representations of the Mind, Literature and Psychology, Digital Literature, Adaptation Studies, Gothic Television, Folklore, Fairy Tales, Fantasy, Children’s Literature, Medieval Literature.

Current Projects:

Kirstin’s current major projects include a monograph, which is the first to explore the adaptation of classic nineteenth-century Gothic texts for twenty-first-century digital mobile media, and an edited book on the Victorian Gothic and the Occult.

If you wish to contact Kirstin about future projects or collaborations, please do so [here].

Memberships:

– International Nineteenth-Century Studies Association
– Australasian Horror Studies Network
– International Gothic Association
– Gothic Association of Australia and New Zealand
– British Association for Victorian Studies
– Australasian Victorian Studies Association

Research-Led Teaching:

Kirstin is passionate about sharing the joys of research with students, and stoking their imagination, excitement, critical thinking and academic writing skills. With over a decade of teaching experience, she incorporates her research into her teaching to offer students exciting insights into the state of the field, and to empower them as researchers in their own right. She particularly enjoys helping students see the arts and humanities (and particularly literary studies) as a lens through which to conceptualise and critique contemporary life, politics, society and history. She is currently an Associate Professor and Director of the innovative Master of Research and Graduate Diploma of Research degrees in the Faculty of Arts at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. In this role she empowers budding researchers to develop the essential research, communication, and critical and analytical thinking skills required for further research pursuits. Prior to this role, Kirstin taught in Macquarie University’s Department of English at both undergraduate and postgraduate level, including courses on Gothic Literature, Children’s Literature, Contemporary Literature, and Narrative Theory.

[Read Kirstin’s Teaching Portfolio]

Conference Presentations

Kirstin presents her research and has organised panel discussions for many international conferences and events. She has been awarded several bursaries, and has written – and filmed documentaries – about many of these events.

Find out about upcoming dates and read about past events HERE.