Kirstin Mills is Lecturer in Higher Degree Research Programs and Director of the Master of Research in the Faculty of Arts. She holds a PhD and a BA (Hons, First Class) in Literature from Macquarie University.

Her research specialises in Gothic and fantastic literature and visual media, with a particular focus on literature of the long Nineteenth Century and its twenty-first-century adaptations. Her research projects have examined literary representations of space, the supernatural and the sciences of the mind, including nineteenth-century scientific theories of dreams, madness and alternative states of consciousness, and Victorian mathematical and cultural concepts of the fourth dimension. She also researches various intersections between the Gothic and the historical, cultural and technological contexts from which it emerges, including gender and animal studies. Recent projects examine the relationships between Victorian Gothic and the occult, and the adaptation of classic Gothic texts into twenty-first-century digital forms.

Kirstin’s published research addresses a wide range of authors, including Mary Shelley, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Edgar Allan Poe, Washington Irving, Horace Walpole, Gottfried August Bürger, Lewis Carroll, George MacDonald, and Lucas Malet.

Her website and full research and teaching portfolio can be found at: www.kirstinmills.com

• Gothic Literature
• Gothic Television and Visual Media
• Romantic Literature and Culture
• Victorian Literature and Culture
• Literature and Science
• Literature and Medicine
• Supernaturalism, Folklore and the Occult
• Adaptation Studies

Kirstin currently supervises Master of Research projects in the area of Gothic literature.

Kirstin Mills is Lecturer, HDR Programs and Director of the Master of Research in the Faculty of Arts. In this role she convenes the Faculty's Master of Research (MRes) and Bachelor of Philosophy (BPhil/MRes Year 1) programs, which seek to train students in key research and communication skills that prepare them for further postgraduate study (Doctor of Philosophy or Master of Philosophy) and academic or professional research careers. In this role, Kirstin is passionate about shaping the program as one that not only produces skilled, world-ready researchers but also fosters a strong sense of collaborative, interdisciplinary connection and academic community.

As well as convening the MRes/BPhil program, Kirstin also designs and teaches many of its core advanced coursework units, with a focus on research and writing theory and practice, and digital literacies. Units currently convened include:

• FOAR7001 Research Communications
• FOAR7002 Research Frontiers I
• FOAR7003 Digital Literacies for Researchers
• FOAR7000 Research Paradigms (co-convening)
• FOAR8990 Research Frontiers II (MRes Year 2)

Kirstin has extensive experience in teaching and curriculum design. Prior to her current role, Kirstin taught as a sessional lecturer and tutor in the Department of English at Macquarie University (2009-1019), and as a Lecturer-in-Charge for the School of Arts at the Australian Catholic University, North Sydney (2019). Since 2009, she has regularly taught on a wide range of units at both undergraduate and postgraduate level, with subjects ranging from medieval literature to contemporary literature and creative writing.