Johnathan Pope
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鈥檚 Fans: Adapting the Bard in the Age of Media Fandom. Palgrave Macmillan. January 2020. Refereed.
Editor, 鈥淚ntroduction,鈥 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
鈥淪hakespeare in the Fan Fiction Archive: Real Person Fiction and Biofiction Fan Fiction鈥 in The Palgrave Handbook of Shakespearean Biofiction鈥 (co-edited by Edel Semple and Katherine Scheil). Palgrave. Forthcoming 2026.
鈥淓ditorial Introduction: To Fan or Antifan, That is the Question.鈥 Transformative Works and Cultures 43 (2024): Online (). Co-authored with Kavita Mudan Finn.
鈥淭rolling Shakespeare: Bad Objects and the Antifan Discourses of Roland Emmerich鈥檚 Anonymous.鈥 Transformative Works and Cultures 43 (2024): Online ().
鈥淏revity is the Soul of Fic: Microfiction, Microfic, and Shakespearean Abridgement in Online Fan Fiction.鈥 Borrowers and Lenders: The Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation 15.2 (Spring 2024): 50-65.
鈥溾楲et鈥檚 kill Claudius in the church!鈥: Fan Fiction and Wish Fulfillment in Ryan North鈥檚 To Be or Not to Be and Romeo and/or Juliet鈥 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)