Associate Professor (Chair)

Program: English

Phone: (709) 639-4677

Email: n79jhp@mun.ca

Office: AS 332L

 

Credentials

Johnathan Pope, B.A. (Grenfell), M.A. (UNB), M.A., Ph.D. (McMaster)

 

Research interests

Shakespeare, adaptation, fandom, fan cultures, Renaissance devotional subjectivity

 

Teaching 

Shakespeare, dramatic literature, film

 

Selected Publications 

Monographs/Critical Editions
Shakespeare’s Fans: Adapting the Bard in the Age of Media Fandom. Palgrave Macmillan. January 2020. Refereed.

Editor, “Introduction,” and critical apparatus. Phineas Fletcher The Purple Island or, The Isle of Man. The Renaissance Society of America Texts and Studies Series, vol. 8. Leiden; Boston: Brill, May 2017. Refereed.

Selected Articles/Chapters
“Shakespeare in the Fan Fiction Archive: Real Person Fiction and Biofiction Fan Fiction” in The Palgrave Handbook of Shakespearean Biofiction” (co-edited by Edel Semple and Katherine Scheil). Palgrave. Forthcoming 2026.

“Editorial Introduction: To Fan or Antifan, That is the Question.” Transformative Works and Cultures 43 (2024): Online (https://doi.org/10.3983/twc.2024.2621). Co-authored with Kavita Mudan Finn.

“Trolling Shakespeare: Bad Objects and the Antifan Discourses of Roland Emmerich’s Anonymous.” Transformative Works and Cultures 43 (2024): Online (https://doi.org/10.3983/twc.2024.2555).

“Brevity is the Soul of Fic: Microfiction, Microfic, and Shakespearean Abridgement in Online Fan Fiction.” Borrowers and Lenders: The Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation 15.2 (Spring 2024): 50-65. https://borrowers-ojs-azsu.tdl.org/borrowers/article/view/368/670

“‘Let’s kill Claudius in the church!’: Fan Fiction and Wish Fulfillment in Ryan North’s To Be or Not to Be and Romeo and/or Juliet” in Peter Holland and Andrew Hartley, eds. Shakespeare and Geek Culture. Arden Shakespeare, 2020. 97-111.

 

Current research projects and grants

Currently working on interconnected research projects on apocryphal Shakespeare and tourism

 

Awards and recognitions

GCSU Teaching and Learning Award (2014-15)