Kirstin Mills specialises in gothic literature and visual media from the eighteenth century to the present day, as well as literature and culture of the long nineteenth century. Her research examines representations of space, the supernatural and the sciences of the mind, including nineteenth-century scientific theories of dreams, madness and alternative states of consciousness. She also works on various intersections between gothic texts and the historical, cultural and technological contexts they emerge within and are adapted into. Her published writing has focused on various approaches to the Gothic, including optics and space, dreams and higher-dimensional space, demonic animals and human gender, and the adaptation of classic gothic texts into twenty-first-century digital forms. She has published on authors such as Mary Shelley, Charlotte Brontë, Edgar Allan Poe, Washington Irving, Horace Walpole, Gottfried August Bürger, Lewis Carroll, George MacDonald, and Lucas Malet.

Kirstin Mills is a Lecturer, HDR Programs in the Faculty of Arts where she convenes and teaches within the Faculty's postgraduate MRes/BPhil program, including:

- FOAR7001 Research Communications

- FOAR7002 Research Frontiers 1

- FOAR7003 Digital Literacies for Researchers

From 2009-2019, prior to her role as Lecturer, HDR Programs, Kirstin taught in the Department of English as a sessional lecturer and tutor.