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    Why we’re still haunted by Jane Eyre… My lates Why we’re still haunted by Jane Eyre… My latest story for @macquarieuni’s The Lighthouse magazine is out today! I explore why we keep coming back to this haunting tale & review the amazing @shakeandstir theatrical adaptation! 
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    So incredibly grateful to be able to celebrate our So incredibly grateful to be able to celebrate our excellent, vibrant, diverse, VALUABLE graduate research community in our Faculty of Arts at the first ever Academic Insights seminar this afternoon! Thankyou so much to all who came along & made it such an enjoyable success!!
    Where better to be on a cold, misty, rainy day tha Where better to be on a cold, misty, rainy day than pottering about a bookshop?
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#books #bookshopsoftheworld #bookstagram #bookshop #bookshelf #bookshelves #bookshopsofinstagram #booktok #leura #bluemountains
    I’m THRILLED to launch my new “Academic Insigh I’m THRILLED to launch my new “Academic Insights” seminar series designed especially for graduate research students in @macquarieuni’s Faculty of Arts! Please join me for the first seminar: “Why We Need Arts & Humanities Research in Today’s World.” 2-3:30pm Friday 1 April, followed by a social meetup at UBar! Do come & please share! More details about the seminar series via my blog (link in bio).
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    Super happy to receive this chonky boi featuring a Super happy to receive this chonky boi featuring a chapter by yours truly. Look how fat it is! Filled to the brim with gothic scholarship! 🦇

#gothic #gothicliterature #gothicpoetry #romanticism 

My contribution: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-84562-9_16 (follow the link in my bio to read about this chapter in a recent blog post)!
    Sloshing to work through the puddles (rivers) dren Sloshing to work through the puddles (rivers) drenching @macquarieuni campus this morning 🦆
    Misty mornings at @macquarieuni Misty mornings at @macquarieuni
    The face of a very happy lecturer who got to meet The face of a very happy lecturer who got to meet a full class of incredible students today! What a treat & a privilege it is to work with so many wonderful people and get to talk (& get overexcited) about research with them! This year is going to be fun! @ArtsMResMQ #ArtsMResMQ
    Are you studying or interested in studying a Maste Are you studying or interested in studying a Master of Research in Macquarie University’s Faculty of Arts? Follow @artsmresmq for updates! And if you’re joining this year, come along to the MRes Year 1 Information Session and Welcome, 10-12 this Tuesday 15th Feb! I’ll be going through what you can expect from your MRes. I can’t wait to meet the next generation of researchers! #ArtsMResMQ
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Frankenstein at 200, Frankenstein, Frankenweek, 200th Anniversary, Frankenreads, Mary Shelley, Shelley, Ghosts, On Ghosts, ghost stories, supernatural, spiritualism, spirits, phantoms, death, Blog, Gothic, Novel, Science Fiction, Kirstin Mills
Frankenstein’s Phantoms: Mary Shelley on Ghosts (Anniversary Series #6)
October 29, 2018 In Academic Research All Blog Posts No Comment

Everyone remembers Frankenstein‘s monster – helped along in large part by the 1931 film adaptation that made him so lumberingly, hulkingly corporeal. But fewer people remember that Mary Shelley’s most famous novel is also peopled heavily with ghosts, and a […]

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Frankenstein at 200, Frankenstein, Frankenweek, 200th Anniversary, Frankenreads, Mary Shelley, Percy Shelley, Death, Biography, Blog, Gothic, Novel, Kirstin Mills
Frankenstein, Death & the Tragic Life of Mary Shelley (Anniversary Series #5)
October 28, 2018 In Academic Research All Blog Posts 1 Comment

Frankenstein is all about death. Death is embodied not only in the creature, composed of dead human and animal body parts, scientifically brought to life, but especially in the many deaths this creature brings about – from Frankenstein’s child brother […]

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Frankenstein at 200, Frankenstein, Frankenweek, 200th Anniversary, Frankenreads, Mary Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, Grave, St Pancras, London, Death, Ghost, Blog, Gothic, Novel, Kirstin Mills
Mary Shelley & her Mother’s Ghost: Mary Wollstonecraft’s Grave, London
October 27, 2018 In Academic Research All Blog Posts Gothic Landscapes No Comment

A bitterly cold day has settled over London. The teeming bustle of St. Pancras Station lies nearby, but a hush falls over a small churchyard tucked in the streets behind it. The few remaining leaves overhead rustle dryly against the […]

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Frankenstein at 200, Frankenstein, Frankenweek, 200th Anniversary, Frankenreads, Mary Shelley, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Coleridge, Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Ancient Mariner, Blog, Gothic, Novel, Poetry, Kirstin Mills
Overheard Tales: Coleridge, Shelley and Frankenstein’s Poetic Inspiration
October 26, 2018 In Academic Research All Blog Posts No Comment

Mary Shelley’s early life was made up of many wonderful and formative moments that would nestle in her memory, stoking her imagination, eventually to reemerge within her first and most famous novel, Frankenstein. For Day 3 of Frankenweek, this post explores […]

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Frankenstein at 200, Frankenstein, Frankenweek, 200th Anniversary, Frankenreads, Mary Shelley, Landscapes, Travel, Tourism, Grand Tour, History of a Six Weeks Tour, Mont Blanc, Europe, death, sublime, Bourke, Blog, Gothic, Novel, Kirstin Mills
A Frankenstein Travel Guide: Mary Shelley’s Journeys into the Sublime (Anniversary Series #2)
October 25, 2018 In Academic Research All Blog Posts Gothic Landscapes 2 Comments

The second in my Frankenstein at 200 Anniversary Blog Series looks at one of the most crucial elements of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein: the profound sense of place that Shelley evokes as Frankenstein pursues his creature through increasingly wild and inhospitable landscapes that […]

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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, Frankenstein, Frankenweek, 200th Anniversary, Frankenreads, Mary Shelley, Blog, Gothic, Novel, Science Fiction, Kirstin Mills
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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  • 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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    Why we’re still haunted by Jane Eyre… My lates Why we’re still haunted by Jane Eyre… My latest story for @macquarieuni’s The Lighthouse magazine is out today! I explore why we keep coming back to this haunting tale & review the amazing @shakeandstir theatrical adaptation! 
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#JaneEyre #VictorianGothic #gothic #gothiclife #gothicliterature #victorianliterature #charlottebronte #charlottebrontë #brontesisters #victorian #nineteenthcentury #bookstagram #bookreview #books #booksbooksbooks #amreading
    So incredibly grateful to be able to celebrate our So incredibly grateful to be able to celebrate our excellent, vibrant, diverse, VALUABLE graduate research community in our Faculty of Arts at the first ever Academic Insights seminar this afternoon! Thankyou so much to all who came along & made it such an enjoyable success!!
    Where better to be on a cold, misty, rainy day tha Where better to be on a cold, misty, rainy day than pottering about a bookshop?
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#books #bookshopsoftheworld #bookstagram #bookshop #bookshelf #bookshelves #bookshopsofinstagram #booktok #leura #bluemountains
    I’m THRILLED to launch my new “Academic Insigh I’m THRILLED to launch my new “Academic Insights” seminar series designed especially for graduate research students in @macquarieuni’s Faculty of Arts! Please join me for the first seminar: “Why We Need Arts & Humanities Research in Today’s World.” 2-3:30pm Friday 1 April, followed by a social meetup at UBar! Do come & please share! More details about the seminar series via my blog (link in bio).
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#ArtsMResMQ #postgrad #postgraduate #postgraduatestudies #postgradresearch #academicresearch #research #academiclife #universitylife #macquarieuniversity #macquarieuni #facultyofarts
    Super happy to receive this chonky boi featuring a Super happy to receive this chonky boi featuring a chapter by yours truly. Look how fat it is! Filled to the brim with gothic scholarship! 🦇

#gothic #gothicliterature #gothicpoetry #romanticism 

My contribution: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-84562-9_16 (follow the link in my bio to read about this chapter in a recent blog post)!
    Sloshing to work through the puddles (rivers) dren Sloshing to work through the puddles (rivers) drenching @macquarieuni campus this morning 🦆
    Misty mornings at @macquarieuni Misty mornings at @macquarieuni
    The face of a very happy lecturer who got to meet The face of a very happy lecturer who got to meet a full class of incredible students today! What a treat & a privilege it is to work with so many wonderful people and get to talk (& get overexcited) about research with them! This year is going to be fun! @ArtsMResMQ #ArtsMResMQ
    Are you studying or interested in studying a Maste Are you studying or interested in studying a Master of Research in Macquarie University’s Faculty of Arts? Follow @artsmresmq for updates! And if you’re joining this year, come along to the MRes Year 1 Information Session and Welcome, 10-12 this Tuesday 15th Feb! I’ll be going through what you can expect from your MRes. I can’t wait to meet the next generation of researchers! #ArtsMResMQ
    Follow Kirstin on Instagram

  • Recent Posts

    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
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    Why we’re still haunted by Jane Eyre… My lates Why we’re still haunted by Jane Eyre… My latest story for @macquarieuni’s The Lighthouse magazine is out today! I explore why we keep coming back to this haunting tale & review the amazing @shakeandstir theatrical adaptation! 
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#JaneEyre #VictorianGothic #gothic #gothiclife #gothicliterature #victorianliterature #charlottebronte #charlottebrontë #brontesisters #victorian #nineteenthcentury #bookstagram #bookreview #books #booksbooksbooks #amreading
    So incredibly grateful to be able to celebrate our So incredibly grateful to be able to celebrate our excellent, vibrant, diverse, VALUABLE graduate research community in our Faculty of Arts at the first ever Academic Insights seminar this afternoon! Thankyou so much to all who came along & made it such an enjoyable success!!
    Where better to be on a cold, misty, rainy day tha Where better to be on a cold, misty, rainy day than pottering about a bookshop?
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#books #bookshopsoftheworld #bookstagram #bookshop #bookshelf #bookshelves #bookshopsofinstagram #booktok #leura #bluemountains
    I’m THRILLED to launch my new “Academic Insigh I’m THRILLED to launch my new “Academic Insights” seminar series designed especially for graduate research students in @macquarieuni’s Faculty of Arts! Please join me for the first seminar: “Why We Need Arts & Humanities Research in Today’s World.” 2-3:30pm Friday 1 April, followed by a social meetup at UBar! Do come & please share! More details about the seminar series via my blog (link in bio).
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#ArtsMResMQ #postgrad #postgraduate #postgraduatestudies #postgradresearch #academicresearch #research #academiclife #universitylife #macquarieuniversity #macquarieuni #facultyofarts
    Super happy to receive this chonky boi featuring a Super happy to receive this chonky boi featuring a chapter by yours truly. Look how fat it is! Filled to the brim with gothic scholarship! 🦇

#gothic #gothicliterature #gothicpoetry #romanticism 

My contribution: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-84562-9_16 (follow the link in my bio to read about this chapter in a recent blog post)!
    Sloshing to work through the puddles (rivers) dren Sloshing to work through the puddles (rivers) drenching @macquarieuni campus this morning 🦆
    Misty mornings at @macquarieuni Misty mornings at @macquarieuni
    The face of a very happy lecturer who got to meet The face of a very happy lecturer who got to meet a full class of incredible students today! What a treat & a privilege it is to work with so many wonderful people and get to talk (& get overexcited) about research with them! This year is going to be fun! @ArtsMResMQ #ArtsMResMQ
    Are you studying or interested in studying a Maste Are you studying or interested in studying a Master of Research in Macquarie University’s Faculty of Arts? Follow @artsmresmq for updates! And if you’re joining this year, come along to the MRes Year 1 Information Session and Welcome, 10-12 this Tuesday 15th Feb! I’ll be going through what you can expect from your MRes. I can’t wait to meet the next generation of researchers! #ArtsMResMQ
    Follow Kirstin on Instagram

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