Dr. Jeremy Johnston
Assistant Professor
- About
- Education
- Selected Research
Current Courses
ENG 170.007 Introduction to Children's Literature
ENG 375.001 Young Adult Literature
ENG 375.002 Young Adult Literature
ENG 475.001 Young Adult Literature
ENG 475.002 Young Adult Literature
ENG 400.003 Independent Study
ENG 591.002 Practicum (Internship) In College Teaching
ENG 599.017 Research And Dissertation
ENG 375.001 Young Adult Literature
ENG 375.002 Young Adult Literature
ENG 475.001 Young Adult Literature
ENG 475.002 Young Adult Literature
PhD English
Western University
MA English: Literature and Language
University of Windsor
Bachelor of Arts English
Laurentian University
Book Review
Review of Sean P. Connors and Roberta Seelinger Trites, Neoliberalism & Young Adult Fiction: Exceptionalism, Exploitation, & Erasure
Jeremy Johnston.
(2026), International Journal of Young Adult Literature
Review of Emily Nicholls, Negotiating Femininities in the Neoliberal Night-Time Economy: Too Much of a Girl?
Jeremy Johnston.
(2023), 52, 606-608, 10.1080/00497878.2023.2206134., Women’s Studies
Book, Chapter
“Mental Health and Masculine Silence in Adib Khorram's Darius the Great is Not Okay.”
Jeremy Johnston.
(2025), 85-105, 10.2307/jj.19061275.8., Healthcare in Children's Media, University Press of Mississippi
“Politics.”
Jeremy Johnston.
(2025), 159-173, 10.4324/9781003438625-14., Children's Literature and Culture: An Introduction, Routledge
Journal Article
“Looking for Meaning and John Green’s Existential Antidote to Nihilism.”
Jeremy Johnston.
International Journal of Young Adult Literature, 6 (1), 1-18, (2025), 10.24877/IJYAL.170.
““Maybe I Am Fixed”: Disciplinary Practices and The Politics of Therapy in Young Adult Literature.”
Jeremy Johnston.
Children's Literature Association Quarterly, 44 (3), 310-331, (2019), 10.1353/chq.2019.0035.
Presentations
“Welcome to the Neighbourhood: Capitalism, Commons, and Contested Space in The Racoons.”
Jeremy Johnston.
Children’s Literature Association (ChLA), Pittsburgh, PA, June, 2026
“Class Borders & Contradictory Girlhood in Jennifer Lynn Barnes’ Inheritance Games Series.”
Jeremy Johnston.
International Research Society for Children’s Literature (IRSCL), Online, June, 2026
Affirmation & Abolishment: YA Fiction and Why Class Struggles in Progressive Movements.”
Jeremy Johnston.
Children’s Literature Association (ChLA), Online, May, 2025
“Capitalist Adolescence and Contradiction: Work/Play in YA Fiction.”
Jeremy Johnston.
Children’s Literature Association (ChLA), Madison, WI, May, 2024
"Anxious Thoughts and Hyperlinks: Rhizomatic Mental Health and Internet Spaces in YA Fiction.”
Jeremy Johnston.
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA), Boston, MA, March, 2024
“‘Neoliberal Adolescence and the Economic Base of YA Literature.”
Jeremy Johnston.
Children’s Literature Association (ChLA), Bellevue, WA, May, 2023
“Masculine Silence & Adolescent Resilience in U.S. Literature.”
Jeremy Johnston.
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA), Niagara Falls, NY, March, 2023
“Literary Adolescence and the Economic Humanities.”
Jeremy Johnston.
YA Studies Association (YASA), Online, November, 2022
“‘Socially Progressive, Fiscally Conservative’: Productive Citizenship, Capitalist Agitprop, & The Young Adult Novel.”
Jeremy Johnston.
Children’s Literature Association (ChLA), Atlanta, GA, June, 2022
“Masculine Silence, Mental Health, & Adolescent Rebellion.”
Jeremy Johnston.
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA), Online, March, 2022
“Graduate Student Mentoring: Two Approaches.”
Jeremy Johnston.
Graduate and Postdoctoral Development Network (GDPN), Online, November, 2021
"Communal Therapy: Resisting Racial Injustice and Mental Health Advocacy in Mark Oshiro’s Anger is a Gift.”
Jeremy Johnston.
Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English (ACCUTE), Online, May, 2021
“Productive Citizenship and The Young Adult Novel.”
Jeremy Johnston.
Children’s Literature Association (ChLA), Online, May, 2021
“Adolescent Transgressions & The Limits of Capitalist Logic.”
Jeremy Johnston.
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA), Online, March, 2021
“Capital Limitations: Psychiatric Hospitals & Pre-Industrial Living in YA Fiction.”
Jeremy Johnston.
YA Studies Association (YASA), Online, November, 2020
“Paradoxical Minds: Mental Health Advocacy in Young Adult Literature.”
Jeremy Johnston.
Children’s Literature Association (ChLA), Indianapolis, IN, May, 2019
“Drowning in Digital Discourse: Internet Thought-Spirals in John Green’s Turtles All the Way Down.”
Jeremy Johnston.
Children’s Literature Association (ChLA), San Antonio, TX, June, 2018
“Culture, Masculinity, and Mental Health in Adib Khorram’s Darius the Great is Not Okay.”
Jeremy Johnston.
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA), Washington, D.C., March, 2018
“Purging the Silence: Young Adult Literature and the Discourse of Mental Health.”
Jeremy Johnston.
South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA), Atlanta, GA, November, 2017
“Archiving Identity: Negotiating the Role of Memory in David Levithan’s Every Day.”
Jeremy Johnston.
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA), Pasadena, CA, November, 2016