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This body of work recognizes the multivocal aspects of political discourse and contributes to the growing scholarship that seeks a more complete understanding of U.S. political processes and institutions by giving attention to rhetoric that circulates and contributes to cultural meaning beyond traditional or legacy venues, such as the news media. Popular culture studies focus on aspects of inter/national and international culture which impact large populations and serve as sites for the exploration of important and controversial issues. The research is interdisciplinary, in its approach and/or application, having relevance to disciplines such as Communication, Media, Sociology, Political Science, American Studies, Critical/Cultural Studies, Folklore, and General Semantics.

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. (2024). Black and white death: Memories of violence in the Great War. In J. Davis-McElligatt & J. Coby (Eds.), BOOM! SPLAT: Comics and violence, pp. 32-43. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi.
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). Back chat: Subversion and conformity in dominion cartoons of the World Wars. In T. Tuleja (Ed.), Different drummers: Military discipline and its discontents, pp. 32-47. The University Press of Colorado/Utah State University Press.
Knopf, C.M. (2020). Bill Mauldin’s legacy in military cartooning. In T. DePastino (Ed.), Drawing fire: The editorial cartoons of Bill Mauldin, pp. 87-103. Chicago, IL: Pritzker Military Museum & Library.
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. & 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. (2015). The comic art of war: A critical study of military cartoons, 1805-2014, with a guide to artists. Jefferson, NC: McFarland.

Knopf, C.M. (2024). “Fighting like cats & dogs: Politics in (not so) ‘funny animal’ comics.” Calling out the symbol rulers. Annual Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture and the Symposium on Communication, Consciousness, and Culture.
Knopf, C.M. (2023). “The Abolition of rhetoric? A consideration of visual rhetoric & AI illustration in The Abolition of Man Comic.” Innovation & Effects in Visual Communication Technology. Visual Communication Division, National Com Assoc.
Knopf, C.M. (2023). "Mother Goddesses & the incarnation, passion, & resurrection of Spider-Man: The transformative nature of Shriek, Shathra, & Ero." Spider-Man and Religion: Spinning a Web of Spirituality. BGSU Spider-Man in Popular Culture.
Knopf, C.M. (2023). “Missing the Punchline: Comedy, violence, & a woman on the fringe.” Drawing the Monstrous: Violence, Horror, War. Comics Studies Society.
Yezbick, D.F. & Knopf, C.M. (2022). “Letters & lace: Milton Caniff’s Male Call and its readers.” Comics Studies Society.
Knopf, C.M. (2022). “Wonder Woman’s Bronze Age and the United Nations Decade for Women.” Wonder Woman for President: 50 Years of Kick-Ass Feminism.
Knopf, C.M. (2021). “Compassion & the apocalypse: Commanders (and communities) in Crisis.” Navigating Superhero Communities. Comics Studies Society.
Knopf, C.M (2021). “Mourning in America: Critical nostalgia in the time of MAGA.” The 2020 Presidential Election, Pictured: Framing Theory & Nostalgia during the Biden/Trump Election. Eastern Com Assoc.
Knopf, C.M. (2020). “Lois Lane & the image of the journalist: Comics Books are a medium with a media message.” Journalism & News Across Cultures & Countries. National Com Assoc.
Knopf, C.M. (2020). “Venom-ous heroes: The critical crossroads of the heroic villain.” Crossroads & Boundaries in Superhero Adaptations. National Com Assoc.
Knopf, C.M. (2020). “Babes at arms: From firing/pin ups to Bombshells.” Women & War in Superhero Comics. Flyover Comics Symposium, Digital Frontiers. .
Knopf, C.M. (2019). “Poison Ivy: Militant earth mother.” Warrior Women & Super-Grrrls!: Iconic Feminist Heroines and Their Discontents. Page 23 Literary Conference at the Denver Pop Culture Con.
Knopf, C.M. (2016). “Undead soldiers never die: Post-9/11 civil-military relations in DC’s ‘G.I. Zombie.’” Poster Presentations. Comic Arts Conference, Comic Con International. .
Knopf, C.M. (2016). “Visual perspective in primary, secondary, & tertiary graphic narratives of World War I.” Images, Imageries, Imaginaires. Colloque Guerres et BD: Écrire une histoire nouvelle de l’Europe, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, et le Goethe-Institut Paris, avec la Panthéon-Sorbonne (Université Paris 1).
Knopf, C.M. (2015). “A fatal femme: How Bomb Queen re-genders politics & war.” POP Girls: Reconsidering the Feminine in Popular Genres & Media Forms. PROJECT: Comic Con Academic Mini-Conference.

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). Familiarity is the path to the Dark Side: Domesticating political problems with Star Wars. Unbound: A Journal of Digital Scholarship, 3(1), 24-31.
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). The Democratic primary debates in political cartoons, or Santa Claus gets voted off Fantasy Island. In R. Denton, Jr. (Ed.), Studies of communication in the 2020 presidential campaign, pp. 83-104. Lanham, MD: Lexington.
Knopf, C.M. (2021). Politics in the Gutters: American politicians & elections in comic book media. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi.
Knopf, C.M. (2020). The American nightmare: Graveyard voters, demon sheep, devil women, and lizard people. D. Picariello, ed. The politics of horror, pp. 3-16. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
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, Dec). “Carrie Fisher sent me”: Princess Leia as an avatar of resistance in the Women’s March(es). Unbound: A Journal of Digital Scholarship, 1(1).
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. (2018, Jun 11). BrainDead: The horrors of election 2016. In Media Res, Politics & Horror Week.
Knopf, C.M. & Ziegelmayer, E.J. (2012). Fourth generation warfare & the US military’s social media strategy: Promoting the academic conversation. Air & Space Power Journal – Africa & Francophonie, Q4: 3-22.
Knopf, C.M. (2011). Those who bear the heaviest burden: War and American exceptionalism in the age of entitlement. In J. Edwards & D. Weiss (Eds.), The rhetoric of American exceptionalism: Critical essays, pp. 171-88. Jefferson, NC: McFarland Press.
Knopf, C.M. (2010). Al Gore’s rational faith and unreasonable religion. In D. Weiss (Ed.), What Democrats talk about when they talk about God: Religious communication in Democratic party politics, pp. 93-113. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.

Knopf, C.M. (2025, Mar). “Between the lines: Visual depictions of the ‘fact gap’ during election 2024.” “Mind the gap”: The outcomes of demographic demarcations and divisions in the 2024 presidential election. Eastern Com Assoc.
Knopf, C.M. (2024). “Going rogue, the sequel: MTG and MAGA.” Frightening, feckless, felonious, funny, and feeble: The Trump 2024 chronicles. NYS Com Assoc.
Knopf, C.M. (2024). “Fighting like cats & dogs: Politics in (not so) ‘funny animal’ comics.” Calling out the symbol rulers. Annual Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture and the Symposium on Communication, Consciousness, and Culture.
Knopf, C.M. (2024). “Distortions and distractions: The visual rhetoric of celebrity spectacle surrounding Trump’s indictments.” The shifting currents of Trump's legal imbroglios: Indictments, integrity, & impenitence. Eastern Com Assoc.
Knopf, C.M. (2024). “The national recurring nightmare: Ford’s inaugural speech 50 years later.” Public Address of 1974, Fifty Years Later. Eastern Com Assoc.
Knopf, C.M. (2023). “Politics as unusual: Editorial cartooning & the 2024 election.” Are We on “The Eve of Destruction?” – Looking Ahead to the 2024 Election. Eastern Com Assoc.
Knopf, C.M. (2022). “Roe, reproduction, & representation: Artists on abortion.” Denial, Derogation, & Divisiveness after Dobbs: Communication Perspectives on a Post-Roe World. NYS Com Assoc.
Knopf, C.M. (2022). “The Statue of Trumpery: Ironic metaphor & the visual ideograph.” Top Paper Panel: Memorializing Public Messages of American Presidents. Eastern Com Assoc.
Knopf, C.M. (2021). “Compassion & the apocalypse: Commanders (and communities) in Crisis.” Navigating Superhero Communities. Comics Studies Society.
Knopf, C.M (2021). “‘I am altering the [art of the] deal’; Or, the In-Sidious threat of Dark Side allusions in political satire.” The Imperial March. Realizing Resistance Episode II.
Knopf, C.M. (2019). “Cartoon commemoration & commentary on the death of John McCain.” Bidding Senator John McCain Goodbye: Memorializing Across Genres & Contexts. Eastern Com Assoc.
Knopf, C.M. (2019). “We are all wonder women & handmaids in the resistance – or are we?: The limits of pop culture icons & avatars in feminist protest.” Global Citizens & Impediments: Modern Feminism around the World. NYS Com Assoc.
Knopf, C.M. (2018). “Pun dites: Artists’ re-framing of Trump’s words.” Trump Time: Communication Lessons or Trump’s Communication Primer. NYS Com Assoc.
Knopf, C.M. (2018). “Campaign carnage: Horror & politics in comic books.” Political horror. Popular Culture Assoc./American Culture Assoc., So.
Knopf, C.M. (2010). “Hidden costs & unsung heroes: Issues of media coverage and cultural scripts in noncombat military deaths.” The political discourse of waging war & combating terrorism. Eastern Com Assoc.
Knopf, C.M. (2009). “Eco-nfessions: CMC, secrets, and environmental action at TrueGREENconfessions.com.” Old & new media on the Internet: Economics & adaptations. Eastern Com Assoc.
Knopf, C.M. (2009). “The rhetoric of polarization: Media, mediation & the new politics of division.” Defining the Genre: The Rhetoric of Polarization Revisited. Eastern Com Assoc.
Knopf, C.M. (2009). “Lipschtick: Masculine political metaphors get a makeover.” Campaign Frames: Meaning Making and Constraint in ‘08. Eastern Communication Association. Philadelphia, PA.
Knopf, C.M. (2008). “IR, PR, the E.U. & the U.S.: Bush’s and Chirac’s conflicting sacred/secular national identities regarding Iraq.” Bent emotions: Perspectives on foreign policy & candidate evaluations. Eastern Com Assoc.
Knopf, C.M. (2003). “Redefining crisis rhetoric in the wake of localized national tragedies.” Political Rhetoric. National Com Assoc.
Knopf, C.M. (2002). “Capturing character: Variations in media coverage of candidate character in the first 2000 presidential debate.” Debates 2000: A Close Look. Eastern Com Assoc.

Knopf, C.M. (2024). Black and white death: Memories of violence in the Great War. In J. Davis-McElligatt & J. Coby (Eds.), BOOM! SPLAT: Comics and violence, pp. 32-43. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi.
Knopf, C.M. (2021). “Like his dad”: Epistolic constructions of American children in World War II. Home Front Studies, 1(1), 59-83.
Knopf, C.M. (2020). Back chat: Subversion and conformity in dominion cartoons of the World Wars. In T. Tuleja (Ed.), Different drummers: Military discipline and its discontents, pp. 32-47. The University Press of Colorado/Utah State University Press.
Knopf, C.M. (2020). Bill Mauldin’s legacy in military cartooning. In T. DePastino (Ed.), Drawing fire: The editorial cartoons of Bill Mauldin, pp. 87-103. Chicago, IL: Pritzker Military Museum & Library.
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. (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. (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. & 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. (2015). The comic art of war: A critical study of military cartoons, 1805-2014, with a guide to artists. Jefferson, NC: McFarland.
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.
Knopf, C.M. (2014). Sense-making and map-making: War letters as personal geographies. NANO , 6/Cartography & Narrative.
Knopf, C.M. (2012). Relational dialectics in the civil-military relationship: Lessons from veterans’ transition narratives. Political & Military Sociology: An Annual Review, 40, 171-192.
Knopf, C.M. & Ziegelmayer, E.J. (2012). Fourth generation warfare & the US military’s social media strategy: Promoting the academic conversation. Air & Space Power Journal – Africa & Francophonie, Q4: 3-22.
Knopf, C.M. (2011). Those who bear the heaviest burden: War and American exceptionalism in the age of entitlement. In J. Edwards & D. Weiss (Eds.), The rhetoric of American exceptionalism: Critical essays, pp. 171-88. Jefferson, NC: McFarland.

Yezbick, D.F. & Knopf, C.M. (2023). “Bombs & bombshells, aluminum & Lace: Milton Caniff at the intersections of illustration & insignia in World War II.” Recovering & Recontextualizing Race & Gender in Illustration. Blind Spots: The 13th Annual Illustration Research Symposium.
Yezbick, D.F. & Knopf, C.M. (2022). “Letters & lace: Milton Caniff’s Male Call and its readers.” Comics Studies Society.
Knopf, C.M. (2022). “Illustrated war letters: Precursor to digital postcards and viral videos.” Archaeologies of Audio/visual Industries and the Military. Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Virtual Pre-Conference Seminar.
Knopf, C.M. (2020). “Babes at arms: From firing/pin ups to Bombshells.” Women & War in Superhero Comics. Flyover Comics Symposium, Digital Frontiers.
Knopf, C.M. (2019). “Animating #VeteransVoices: StoryCorps, cartoons, & the civil-military gap.” Animation & Public Engagement Symposium.
Knopf, C.M. (2017). The Military in Cartoon: Veteran Comic Creators – a Panel Discussion. Border Town Comic-Con.
Knopf, C.M. (2016). “Undead soldiers never die: Post-9/11 civil-military relations in DC’s ‘G.I. Zombie.’” Poster Presentations. Comic Arts Conference at Comic Con International.
Knopf, C.M. (2016). “Animating the war effort: Cartoons of World War II.” Spirit of Revolution on the Home Front, National Parks of Boston. National Parks Service Centennial Celebration. USS Constitution Museum.
Knopf, C.M. (2016). “Visual perspective in primary, secondary, and tertiary graphic narratives of World War I.” Images, Imageries, Imaginaires. Colloque Guerres et BD: Écrire une histoire nouvelle de l’Europe, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, et le Goethe-Institut Paris, avec la Panthéon-Sorbonne (Université Paris 1).
Knopf, C.M. (2016). “Baby girls, little men, and kiddos: Family roles & social constructions of the children of World War II.” Military Families. Military Sociology Mini-Conference, Eastern Soc Society.
Knopf, C.M. (2011). “Materiality & commoditization of war correspondence, from snail-mail to e-mail.” Mediating War & Technology Preconference. International Com Assoc.
Ziegelmayer, E.J. & Knopf, C.M. (2012). “Global communication in tribal battles: Development & meaning of the U.S. military’s Information Operations Doctrine.” Communicating War in the Information Age. International Studies Assoc.
Knopf, C.M. (2012). “Staging war theater on the home front: The family drama of deployment in public broadcasting.” Constructing Reality? Terrorism Economic Tidings, Family Values, & Broadcasting Military Policy. Eastern Com Assoc.
Knopf, C.M. (2011). “Suicidal soldiers or wounded warriors: Rhetoric of victimage in defense of military suicides.” Power, Propaganda, & Rhetoric in Public Address. Eastern Com Assoc.
Knopf, C.M. & Ziegelmayer, E.J. (2010). “‘Friending’ the enemy: The US military, strategic communication & social media in the War on Terror.” Social Media I. Global Media & ‘the War Terror’: An International Conference, sponsored by the Communication & Media Research Institute at the University of Westminster.
Knopf, C.M. (2010). “Hidden costs & unsung heroes: Issues of media coverage & cultural scripts in noncombat military deaths.” The Political Discourse of Waging War & Combating Terrorism. Eastern Com Assoc.

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. (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. (2020). The American nightmare: Graveyard voters, demon sheep, devil women, and lizard people. D. Picariello, ed. The politics of horror, pp. 3-16. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
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). 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). 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. (2018, Jun 11). BrainDead: The horrors of election 2016. In Media Res, Politics & Horror Week.
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.

Knopf, C.M. (2024). “From picket boards to spirit boards: Haunted history as restorative practice.” The contested contours of public memory: Critiques of public space and the evolving nature of public commemoration. NYS Com Assoc.
Knopf, C.M. (2024). “The medium, she’s the message: Memory and meaning along the Haunted History Trail of New York State.” The contested contours of public memory: Critiques of public space, defining narratives, and the evolving nature of public commemoration. Media Ecology Assoc.
Knopf, C.M. (2018). “Campaign carnage: Horror & politics in comic books.” Political Horror. Popular Culture Assoc, South/American Culture Assoc, South.
Knopf, C.M. (2017). “Sighting UFOs (unusual female others) in Saucer Country: Metaphors of identity & politics.” Monstrous Women in Comics Conference. University of North Texas.
Knopf, C.M. (2017). “A rhetoric of monstrosity: Towards a definition of the American political horror genre.” Humor, horror, & pop culture in politics. Eastern Com Assoc.
Knopf, C.M. (2016). “Undead soldiers never die: Post-9/11 civil-military relations in DC’s ‘G.I. Zombie.’” Poster Presentations. Comic Arts Conference, Comic Con International.

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. (2011). Those who bear the heaviest burden: War and American exceptionalism in the age of entitlement. In J. Edwards & D. Weiss (Eds.), The rhetoric of American exceptionalism: Critical essays, pp. 171-88. Jefferson, NC: McFarland.
Knopf, C.M. (2010). Al Gore’s rational faith and unreasonable religion. In D. Weiss (Ed.),What Democrats talk about when they talk about God: Religious communication in Democratic party politics, pp. 93-113. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books

Knopf, C.M. (2005). Providence, presidents, & the press: Inaugural rhetoric of religion in a historical perspective. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University at Albany.

Knopf, C.M. (2023). "Mother Goddesses and the incarnation, passion, and resurrection of Spider-Man: The transformative nature of Shriek, Shathra & Ero." Spider-Man & Religion: Spinning a Web of Spirituality. BGSU Spider-Man in Popular Culture Conference.
Knopf, C.M. (2009). “Speaking to one god but addressing many: The inaugural address as counterweight to the inaugural prayer.” Let “Us” Pray: Rhetoric, Religion, & the 2009 Presidential Inauguration. National Com Assoc.
Knopf, C.M. (2008). “Perspectives on piety: The press’s use of incongruity.” Rhetoric, Religion, & the Rhetoric of Religion: Perspectives & Prospects. Rhetoric Society of America.
Knopf, C.M. (2008). “IR, PR, the E.U. & the U.S.: Bush’s & Chirac’s conflicting sacred/secular national identities regarding Iraq.” Bent Emotions: Perspectives on Foreign Policy & Candidate Evaluations. Eastern Com Assoc.
Knopf, C.M. (2007). “Participatory communication practices in Dianic Wicca: Witchcraft as third wave feminist action.” Second and Third Wave Feminism and Beyond. National Com Assoc.
Knopf, C.M. (2006). “Like gathering moonbeams: Challenges facing the solidification & reinforcement of Pagan Pride.” Constructions of Self and Other: Selected Papers in Voices of Diversity. Eastern Com Assoc.
Knopf, C.M. (2004). “Looking to heaven for answers: A computer-based rhetorical critique of Christian sermons following the Oklahoma City bombing & the 9/11 terrorist attacks.” The Progress of Life & Death: Rhetorical Evocation & Response. Eastern Com Assoc.
Knopf, C.M. (2003). “One nation under question: How the media did (or didn’t) cover the Pledge decision.” Competitive Papers in Mass Communication: Media Coverage of U.S. Issues. Eastern Com Assoc.

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.

Knopf, C.M. (2023). “Building resistance: Agency and LEGO Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures.” Material Resistance. Realizing Resistance Episode III, Digital Cultural Studies Cooperative.
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Knopf, C.M. (2017). “A rhetoric of monstrosity: Towards a definition of the American political horror genre.” Humor, horror, and pop culture in politics. Eastern Com Assoc.

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, https://mediacommons.org/imr/content/”we-are-no-longer-connected-jean”-alienation-x-women-‘97.
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). “Building resistance: Agency & LEGO Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures.” Material Resistance. Realizing Resistance Episode III, Digital Cultural Studies Cooperative.
Knopf, C.M. (2023). “‘Wake up, sheeple!’ Sheeple aren’t real: Cartooning conspiracies in a theater of the absurd - Netflix’s Inside Job.” Top Papers in Political Communication. Eastern Com Assoc.
Knopf, C.M. (2019). “Animating #VeteransVoices: StoryCorps, cartoons, and the civil-military gap.” Animation and Public Engagement Symposium.
Knopf, C.M. (2016). “Animating the war effort: Cartoons of World War II.” Spirit of Revolution on the Home Front, National Parks of Boston. National Parks Service Centennial Celebration. USS Constitution Museum.

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. (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. (2023). “Missing the Punchline: Comedy, violence, and a woman on the fringe.” Drawing the Monstrous: Violence, Horror, War. Comics Studies Society.

Knopf, C.M. (2023). Familiarity is the path to the Dark Side: Domesticating political problems with Star Wars. Unbound: A Journal of Digital Scholarship, 3(1), 24-31.
Knopf, C.M. (2020). Back chat: Subversion and conformity in dominion cartoons of the World Wars. In T. Tuleja (Ed.), Different drummers: Military discipline and its discontents, pp. 32-47. The University Press of Colorado/Utah State University Press.
Knopf, C.M. (2020). Bill Mauldin’s legacy in military cartooning. In T. DePastino (Ed.), Drawing fire: The editorial cartoons of Bill Mauldin, pp. 87-103. Chicago, IL: Pritzker Military Museum & Library.
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. (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. (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 comic art of war: A critical study of military cartoons, 1805-2014, with a guide to artists. Jefferson, NC: McFarland.

Knopf, C.M. (2022). “The Statue of Trumpery: Ironic metaphor and the visual ideograph.” Top Paper Panel: Memorializing Public Messages of American Presidents. Eastern Com Assoc.
Knopf, C.M. (2021). “‘I am altering the [art of the] deal’; Or, the In-Sidious threat of Dark Side allusions in political satire.” The Imperial March. Realizing Resistance Episode II.
Knopf, C.M. (2020). “Light comedy or reality TV? Political cartoonists frame the 2020 Democratic primary debates.” Analyzing Communication in the 2020 Presidential Primary Debates: Strategic Innovation and Interaction in a Shifting Scene. National Com Assoc.
Knopf, C.M. (2019). “Presidential superzeroes: Parody or punditry in comic book political satire. Comics Studies Society. Toronto, ON.
Knopf, C.M. (2018). “Playful politics in political parodies: Editorial cartoons in comic book form.” Politics in Play: Satire, Affect, and Cartoons. National Com Assoc.
Knopf, C.M. (2014). “Guns and cockpits, weapons of wits: Gender and sexuality in the military as expressed in soldier-drawn comics.” U.S. Military Economies and Cultures. Eastern Soc Society.
Knopf, C.M. (2013). “Doctrine Man draws for jargon, bureaucracy, and the military way: Comic representations of US military doctrine.” Media as Data; Media as Method. International Studies Assoc–Northeast.

Knopf, C.M. (2024). Black and white death: Memories of violence in the Great War. In J. Davis-McElligatt & J. Coby (Eds.), BOOM! SPLAT: Comics and violence, pp. 32-43. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi.
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. & 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. (2023). “Visual surreality: Time, germs, and other things (un)seen in COVID comics.” Media Ecology Assoc.
Knopf, C.M. (2023). “Roe, reproduction, and representation: Artists on abortion.” Denial, Derogation, and Divisiveness after Dobbs: Communication Perspectives on a Post-Roe World. Eastern Com Assoc.
Knopf, C.M. (2023). “Comics, covidity, and visualizing the invisible.” Schering Plough Executive Lectures Series, Fairleigh Dickinson University.
Knopf, C.M. (2022). “Junctures and ruptures: COVID, comics, and visualizing the invisible.” Wilson Lecture, NYS Com Assoc.
Knopf, C.M. (2022). “Roe, reproduction, & representation: The baby or the ballot.” Denial, Derogation, and Divisiveness after Dobbs: Communication Perspectives on a Post-Roe World. NYS Com Assoc.
Knopf, C.M. (2021). “They furnished the pictures, Trump furnished the war: Political cartoons of the fight against COVID & the ‘wartime president’.” News Coverage of Crises, COVID-19, & Campaigns. National Com Assoc.
Knopf, C.M. (2019). “Cartoon commemoration & commentary on the death of John McCain.” Bidding Senator John McCain Goodbye: Memorializing Across Genres & Contexts. Eastern Com Assoc.
Knopf, C.M. (2011). “Unknowing martyrs in the anti-war cause: The creation of protest statements through combat-zone suicides.” Section on Peace, War, & Social Conflict Roundtable Session. American Soc Assoc.
Knopf, C.M. (2011). “Suicidal soldiers or wounded warriors: Rhetoric of victimage in defense of military suicides.” Power, Propaganda, and Rhetoric in Public Address. Eastern Com Assoc.
Knopf, C.M. (2010). “Hidden costs & unsung heroes: Issues of media coverage and cultural scripts in noncombat military deaths.” The Political Discourse of Waging War & Combating Terrorism. Eastern Com Assoc.

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