Rate My Professor Kirstin Mills

Mills specialises in Gothic and fantastic literature and visual media from the long nineteenth century to contemporary adaptations. Her research examines literary representations of space, the supernatural, sciences of the mind—including nineteenth-century theories of dreams, madness, and alternative consciousness—and Victorian concepts of the fourth dimension, alongside twenty-first-century digital media adaptations of Gothic literature, Gothic animal studies, and the Gothic and gender. Forthcoming publications include the edited book Victorian Gothic and the Occult (Palgrave Macmillan, 2026), with chapters "Gothic and the occult in the Long Nineteenth Century" and "Mediumship, lost texts, and the occult afterlives of the Victorian Gothic." Other recent works are "Frankenstein and the sciences of the undead" in The Palgrave Handbook of the Zombie (2025), and the co-authored article "Mutation in media and popular culture" in M/C Journal (2025). As Editor of Advances in Nineteenth-Century Research (Routledge/Taylor & Francis, since 2023) and Series Editor for the International Nineteenth-Century Studies Association Book Series with Clemson University Press (since 2023), she contributes significantly to the field. Mills serves on the University's Graduate Research Management Committee as Deputy Chair of the Faculty of Arts Research Training Committee, and is a board member of the International Nineteenth-Century Studies Association and Australasian Horror Studies Network. She delivers invited lectures, such as on Gothic literature history and Coleridge's nightmares, and contributes expert commentary to Macquarie University's The Lighthouse magazine and various media outlets.