• Knopf, C.M. (forthcoming 2025). The debutante vigilante: Lady Luck, an early model for world war womanhood. In G. Bray and A.J. Ball (Eds.), Women vigilantes and outlaws in American popular media: Who was that masked woman?, ch. 5. New York: Routledge. • ​Knopf, C.M. (2024). The true meaning of fearless: Feminism in Fearless and the Marvel Universe. In D. Brode (Ed.), Analyzing the Marvel Universe: Critical essays on the comics and film adaptations, pp. 100-108. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co. • Knopf, C.M. (2023). Militant earth mother: Viewing Poison Ivy as an ecofeminist rather than as an ecoterrorist. In J. Martin & M. Favaro (Eds.), Batman’s villains and villainesses: Multidisciplinary perspectives on Arkham’s souls, pp. 201-214. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. • Knopf, C.M. (2023). The pirate, the queen, and the handkerchief: Gráinne Mhaol, an Irishwoman among men. In H.E.H. Earle & M. Lund (Eds.), Identity and history in non-Anglophone comics, pp. 220-236. New York: Routledge. • Knopf, C.M. (2023, Apr 10). Anger and fear and feminism. In Media Res, Quantumania, the Multiverse, and the State of the MCU Week. • Knopf, C.M. (2023). The politics of inversion in Americatown: Lessons and limits for public pedagogy. In R. Kauranen, O. Löytty, A. Nikkilä, & A. Vuorinne (Eds.), Comics and migration: Practices and representation, pp. 167-178. New York: Routledge. • Knopf, C.M. (2022). “Fear of faith” and faith over fear: Scarecrow as emblem of a purgatorial Gotham. In M.W. Brake & C.K. Robertson (Eds.), Theology and Batman: Examining the religious world of the Dark Knight, pp. 69-79. Lanham, MD: Lexington. • Knopf, C.M. (2022). Caped crusaders and cartoon crossovers: A nostalgic look“Beyond” DC superheroes. In D. Brode (Ed.), The DC comics universe: Critical essays, pp. 349-362. Jefferson, NC: McFarland. • Knopf, C.M. (2022). Heterotopia and horror at Show’s End. In J. Darowski  & F.G.P. Berns (Eds.), Critical approaches to horror comic books: Red ink in the gutter, pp. 223-234. New York: Routledge. • Knopf, C.M. (2022, Feb 14). Jokers, jesters, and gender: Subverting social standards. In Media Res, Transmedia Joker Week. • Knopf, C.M. (2022). AfterShock’s Rough Riders and the reification of race reimagined. In M. Goodrum, D. Hall, & P. Smith (Eds.), Drawing the past, Vol. 1: Comics and the historical imagination in the United States, pp. 212-227. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi. • Knopf, C.M. (2021). Politics in the gutters: American politicians & elections in comic book media. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi. • Knopf, C.M. (2021). Superman, a super freak: Returning the Man of Steel to the circus in the DC Bombshells. In J. Darowski (Ed.), Adapting Superman: Essays on the transmedia Man of Steel, pp. 207-215. Jefferson, NC: McFarland. • Knopf, C.M. (2020, Apr 15). Menacing and maternal: The limits of motherhood in Spider-Man. In Media Res, Spider-Man Week. • Knopf, C.M. (2020). UFO (unusual female other) sightings in Saucer Country/State: Metaphors of identity and presidential politics. In S. Langsdale & E. Coody (Eds.), Monstrous women in comics, pp. 257-273. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi.  • Knopf, C.M. (2019, Sep 16). Queer female Superheroes: DC Comics Bombshells tell their own story. FLOW: A Critical Forum on Media and Culture, 26(1) “New Faces, New Voices, New Bodies.” • Knopf, C.M. (2019). Politics as “the sum of everything you fear”: Scarecrow as phobia entrepreneur. In D. Picariello (Ed.), Politics in Gotham: The Batman universe and political thought, pp. 159-176. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. • Knopf, C.M. (2019). War is hell: The (super)nature of war in the works of Mike Mignola. In S.G. Hammond (Ed.), The Mignolaverse: Hellboy and the comics art of Mike Mignola, pp. 144-155. Edwardsville, IL: Sequart Organization. • Knopf, C.M. (2018). Sinne fianna fáil: Women, Irish rebellions, and the graphic novels of Gerry Hunt. In N. Tal & T. Prorokova (Eds.), Cultures of war in graphic novels: Violence, trauma, and memory, pp. 123-137. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. • Knopf, C.M. (2018). Queen of burlesque: The subtle (as a hammer) satire of Bomb Queen. In M. Goodrum, T. Prescott, & P. Smith (Eds.), Gender and the superhero narrative, pp. 101-123. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi. • Knopf, C.M. (2018). Marvel’s Shamrock: Haunted heroine, working woman, guardian of the galaxy. In M. DiPaolo (Ed.), Working class comic book heroes: Class conflict and populist politics in comics, pp. 206-225. Jackson MS: University Press of Mississippi. • Knopf, C.M. (2017). “Hey, soldier! - Your slip is showing!”: Militarism vs. femininity in WWII comic pages and books. In J. Kimble & T. Goodnow (Eds.), The 10 cent war: Comic books, propaganda, and World War II, pp. 26-45. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi.

• Knopf, C.M. (2024, Sep 16). “We are no longer connected, Jean”: The alienation of X-women ’97. In Media Res, X-Men ’97 Week,.  • Knopf, C.M. (2023). Cthulhoo-Dooby-Doo!: The re-animation of Lovecraft (and racism) through subcultural capital. In T. Lanzendörfer & M.J. Dreysse Passos de Cavalho (Eds.), The medial afterlives of H.P. Lovecraft: Comic, film, podcast, TV, games, pp. 159-172. Palgrave Macmillan. • Knopf, C.M. (2023). The Loner on the “frontier of unfilled hopes and threats”: Serling’s old West in Kennedy’s new frontier. In D. Picariello (Ed.), The Western and political thought: A fistful of politics. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. • Knopf, C.M. (2023, Apr 10). Anger and fear and feminism. In Media Res, Quantumania, the Multiverse, and the State of the MCU Week. • Knopf, C.M. (2023). Shark storms: Syfy’s splasher and splashstick films. In J. Wigard & M. Ploskonka (Eds.), Attack of the new B movies: Essays on SYFY original films, pp. 113-130. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co. • Knopf, C.M. (2023). Cthulhoo-Dooby-Doo!: The re-animation of Lovecraft (and racism) through subcultural capital. In T. Lanzendörfer & M.J. Dreysse Passos de Cavalho (Eds.), The medial afterlives of H.P. Lovecraft: Comic, film, podcast, TV, games, pp. 159-172. Palgrave Macmillan. • Knopf, C.M. & Doran, C.M. (2016). PTXD: Gendered narratives of combat, trauma, and the civil-military divide. In C. Bucciferro (Ed.), The X-Men films: A cultural analysis, pp. 61-73. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. • Knopf, C.M. (2016). Zany zombies, grinning ghosts, silly scientists, and nasty Nazis: Comedy-horror at the threshold of World War II. In C.J. Miller & A.B. VanRiper (Eds.), The laughing dead: The comedy-horror film from Bride of Frankenstein to Zombieland, pp. 25-38. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. • Knopf, C.M. (2015). The U.N.dead: Cold War ghosts in Carol for another Christmas. In C.J. Miller & A.B. Van Riper (Eds.), Horrors of war: The undead on the battlefield, pp. 136-53. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.