Rate My Professor Katherine Milburn

Milburn has curated key exhibitions, such as Kaleidoscope World: Forty Years of Flying Nun, co-curated with Amanda Mills, featuring music posters and ephemera from the Dunedin independent label. She has given public talks including Patterns of Behaviour on the knitting patterns collection, a 2018 presentation on He Kī Taurangi under the Hocken Friends talk series, and discussions on 1940s film posters. Her publications feature co-authorship of Railways Studios: How a Government Design Studio Helped Build New Zealand (2020, Te Papa Press), with Peter Alsop, Neill Atkinson, and Richard Wolfe, chronicling the Railways Studios' contributions to New Zealand's graphic design through posters, billboards, and publicity. Milburn authors insightful posts for the Hocken Blog, such as Fantastic Film Posters from the Forties, Stirring up the Stacks #3 on Bycroft party starters, Xmas Cake Recipe from Buckhams ephemera, and explorations of popular culture items. She has presented at the Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand conference on ephemera in the Hocken, contributed guest articles to MOTAT on Queenstown promotional ephemera, and participated in projects like Pacific Voices XVII. Milburn's efforts significantly enhance engagement with New Zealand's cultural heritage.