Catriona Mills holds a B.A. (Hons) from Macquarie University and an M.Phil. and Ph.D. from the University of Queensland. She researches and publishes in the field of serial fiction (particularly, but not exclusively, in the nineteenth century) and authorship attribution, teaches academic and professional writing at the University of Queensland, and works as a researcher for AustLit: The Australian Literature Resource. She cannot remember a time before she started watching Doctor Who.