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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! 🦇

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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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Pen and Ink Illustration for Podcast Logo Design, Macquarie University, From the Lighthouse, English Literature Podcast, artwork
Designing a Logo for Macquarie University’s Literature Podcast
August 12, 2017 In Academic Research All Blog Posts Art & Illustration No Comment

One of my favourite things is when my artistic and academic worlds collide, and I get to delight in my passions for drawing, books, photography and academia all at once! This year I was excited to be asked to design […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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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    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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