Catriona Mills holds degrees from Macquarie University and The University of Queensland. Her Ph.D. dissertation employed Eliza Winstanley's writing career as a case study for the better understanding of the production and consumption of mid-Victorian penny weeklies. She has published on adaptations of penny-weekly serials to the English suburban stage, authorship attribution in Australian nineteenth-century periodicals, and Doctor Who.
Dr Mills has taught academic and professional communication at The University of Queensland. She began work with AustLit in 2010 and is currently the Content Manager.
In early 2020 and from January 2021 to June 2023, she was also the Acting Director of AustLit, in which role she oversaw both the twentieth anniversary of the database and the 1,000,000th record milestone.
Dr Mills researched and compiled, among other projects, The Writer in Television History in 2013 (under the 2012 AFI Research Collection (AFIRC) Research Fellowship), Australians and Adaptations (1900-2014) (funded by and supported by Australian Research Council Discovery Grant, and on behalf of Professor Tom O'Regan) in 2015, Diversity in Australian Speculative Fiction : A Bibliographical Exhibition in 2016, and (in collaboration with Geoffrey Hondroudakis) Beyond Goggles and Corsets: Australian Steampunk in 2017.
