Dr Michael Cop

2026

Journal - Research Article

Cop, M. (2026). Reading (in) the room: Accessibility and three formats of Milton readings. Milton Quarterly, n/. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1111/milt.70022

2025

Journal - Research Article

Cop, M., & Atlas, J. (2025). Judging a type of character: The anointing women, mindfulness, and beginner's mind. Junctures, 25, 42-54. doi: 10.34074/junc.25042

Cop, M. (2025). Blockage-path reading in comics: Patterns in blockage layouts from ten popular comics. Journal of Graphic Novels & Comics. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1080/21504857.2024.2410921

Tankard, P., & Cop, M. (2025). To explain, to commend, to correct: Johnson on notes and on Shakespeare, in The Tempest and the Dictionary. Age of Johnson, 25, 42-71.

Journal - Research Other

Cop, M. (2025). [Review of the book Playbooks and their readers in early modern England]. Parergon, 42(1), 201-203. doi: 10.1353/pgn.2025.a967502

Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs

Ganatra, A., Majumdar, S. S., Cop, M., Soesilowati, S., & Joshi, K. (2025, September). Transforming teaching-learning for future generations: AI and SDGs as drivers of sustainable education [Invited]. Panel discussion at the Adhigam-Aayam-3.0 International Symposium on Innovative Learner-Centred Approaches to Teaching and Learning, Vadodara, India.

2024

Journal - Research Other

Cop, M. (2024). [Review of the book Noah's Arkive]. Parergon, 41(1), 313-315. doi: 10.1353/pgn.2024.a935350

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Cop, M. (2024). (Re)Assessments: Shakespeare in the time of ChatGPT. Proceedings of the 14th Biennial Australian & New Zealand Association for Medieval & Early Modern Studies (ANZAMEMS) Conference. (pp. 1). Retrieved from https://www.anzamems.org/

Other Research Output

Cop, M. (2024, August). Have I missed something? Patterns in comics that alter normative reading paths. Department of English and Linguistics, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. [Department Seminar].

2023

Journal - Research Article

Cop, M., & Large, D. (2023). ‘Words, words, words': Making comics and sense of the three texts of Hamlet. Journal of Graphic Novels & Comics, 14(1), 89-103. doi: 10.1080/21504857.2022.2038224

2022

Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs

Cop, M. (2022, December). From repeating narratives to rhetorical tropes: Why is Jericho littered with blind men? Workshop presentation at the New Zealand Linguistic Society Conference, Dunedin, New Zealand.

Cop, M., & Hatfield, H. (2022, November). Digital citizens? What the data tell us about how Otago students write online assessments. Verbal presentation at the COVID-19’s Impact on Teaching and Learning at the University of Otago: Lessons Learned Symposium, Dunedin, New Zealand.

2021

Journal - Research Other

Cop, M. (2021). [Review of the book How to think like Shakespeare: Lessons from a Renaissance education]. Parergon, 38(2), 243-245. doi: 10.1353/pgn.2024.a935350

Cop, M. (2021). [Review of the book Teaching Early Modern English literature from the archives]. Parergon, 38(2), 276. doi: 10.1353/pgn.2021.0128

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Hatfield, H., & Cop, M. (2021). Finding novel ideas in writing through computational graph-theoretic analysis. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Linguistic Society of New Zealand: Language & Society 2020 (LangSoc). Retrieved from https://events.waikato.ac.nz/events/Language-and-society-conference

Cop, M., & Overall, S. (2021). How to make dramatic use of body parts. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Linguistic Society of New Zealand: Language & Society 2020 (LangSoc). Retrieved from https://events.waikato.ac.nz/events/Language-and-society-conference

2020

Journal - Research Article

Cop, M. (2020). A Midsummer Night’s Dream 3.2.25. Explicator, 78(1), 30-34. doi: 10.1080/00144940.2019.1697192

2019

Journal - Research Article

Cop, M., & Hatfield, H. (2019). Reviewing failure as part of reflection: A potential predictor of health sciences students' successes. International Journal of Health Sciences Education, 6(1), 1-10. Retrieved from https://dc.etsu.edu/ijhse/vol6/iss1/2

Journal - Research Other

Cop, M. (2019). [Review of the book Ambivalent Macbeth]. Parergon, 36(1), 229-230. doi: 10.1353/pgn.2019.0037

Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs

Cop, M., & Hatfield, H. (2019, November). Literacy, writing mechanics, and academic success at university. Verbal presentation at the Annual Conference of the Linguistic Society of New Zealand: Language & Society (LangSoc), Christchurch, New Zealand.

2017

Journal - Research Article

Cop, M., & Hatfield, H. (2017). An athletes [sic] performance: Can a possessive apostrophe predict success? English Today, 33(3), 39-45. doi: 10.1017/s026607841600064x

Other Research Output

Hatfield, H. & Cop, M. (2017, March). Exploring the relationship between high school background, writing skills, and first-year marks at university. Department of English and Linguistics, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. [Department Seminar].

2016

Journal - Research Article

Cop, M., & Hatfield, H. (2016). Which grammatical errors do first-year university students make and do those errors matter? A focusing inquiry. New Zealand Journal of Teachers' Work, 31(1), 22-38.

Cop, M. (2016). Compositions for a king: Little Gidding's use of Henry Grathwait's Monotessaron. Script & Print, 40(1), 29-44.

2015

Journal - Research Article

Cop, M., & Young, J. (2015). The adolescence of blogs, 'The LiveJournal of Zachary Marsh', and H. P. Lovecraft: Cultural attitudes versus social behaviour. Irish Journal of Gothic & Horror Studies, 14, 19-36.

2014

Journal - Research Article

Cop, M. (2014). Early modern poetic exegesis: Henry Vaughan’s peprous Pharisee and Marcan wilderness. Relegere, 4(2), 207-228. doi: 10.11157/rsrr4-2-500

2013

Journal - Research Article

Cop, M. A. (2013). Samson Agonistes 1010-1017. Explicator, 71(4), 316-319. doi: 10.1080/00144940.2013.842155

2012

Journal - Research Article

Hale, J. K., & Cop, M. (2012). "Word" or "world" in Milton's letter to a friend in the trinity manuscript. Milton Quarterly, 46(1), 21-24. doi: 10.1111/j.1094-348X.2012.00318.x

Cop, M. (2012). John Milton's Paradise Lost VII: 492-494. Explicator, 70(1), 23-26. doi: 10.1080/00144940.2012.656739