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Comics Studies publications...

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. 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.

and presentations

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 Communication Assoc. National Harbor, MD.
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 Conference. Bowling Green, OH.
Knopf, C.M. (2023). “Missing the Punchline: Comedy, violence, & a woman on the fringe.” Drawing the Monstrous: Violence, Horror, War. Comics Studies Society. Denton, TX.
Yezbick, D.F. & Knopf, C.M. (2022). “Letters & lace: Milton Caniff’s Male Call and its readers.” Comics Studies Society. East Lansing, MI.
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 virtual conference.
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 Communication Assoc. Online.
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 Communication Assoc. Online.
Knopf, C.M. (2020). “Venom-ous heroes: The critical crossroads of the heroic villain.” Crossroads & Boundaries in Superhero Adaptations. National Communication Association.
Knopf, C.M. (2020). “Babes at arms: From firing/pin ups to Bombshells.” Women & War in Superhero Comics. Flyover Comics Symposium, Digital Frontiers. Online.
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. Denver, CO.
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. San Diego, CA.
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). Paris, FR.
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. St. Louis, MO.

Comics

Political Communication publications...

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. (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.

and presentations

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 Communication Assoc. Baltimore, MD.
Knopf, C.M. (2022). “Roe, reproduction, & representation: Artists on abortion.” Denial, Derogation, & Divisiveness after Dobbs: Communication Perspectives on a Post-Roe World. New York State Communication Assoc. Callicoon, NY.
Knopf, C.M. (2022). “The Statue of Trumpery: Ironic metaphor & the visual ideograph.” Top Paper Panel: Memorializing Public Messages of American Presidents. Eastern Communication Association. Philadelphia, PA.
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 Communication Assoc. Providence RI.
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. New York State Communication Assoc. Callicoon, NY.
Knopf, C.M. (2018). “Pun dites: Artists’ re-framing of Trump’s words.” Trump Time: Communication Lessons or Trump’s Communication Primer. New York State Communication Assoc. Callicoon, NY.
Knopf, C.M. (2009). “The rhetoric of polarization: Media, mediation & the new politics of division.” Defining the Genre: The Rhetoric of Polarization Revisited. Eastern Communication Assoc. Philadelphia, PA.
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. (2003). “Redefining crisis rhetoric in the wake of localized national tragedies.” Political Rhetoric. National Communication Assoc. Miami, FL.
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 Communication Assoc. New York City, NY.

Politics

Civil-Military Studies publications...

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. 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.

and presentations

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. St. Louis, MO.
Yezbick, D.F. & Knopf, C.M. (2022). “Letters & lace: Milton Caniff’s Male Call and its readers.” Comics Studies Society. East Lansing, MI.
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. Online.
Knopf, C.M. (2020). “Babes at arms: From firing/pin ups to Bombshells.” Women & War in Superhero Comics. Flyover Comics Symposium, Digital Frontiers. Virtual conference.
Knopf, C.M. (2019). “Animating #VeteransVoices: StoryCorps, cartoons, & the civil-military gap.” Animation & Public Engagement Symposium. Lubbock, TX.
Knopf, C.M. (2017). The Military in Cartoon: Veteran Comic Creators – a Panel Discussion. Border Town Comic-Con. Ontario, OR.
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. San Diego, CA.
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. Boston, MA.
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). Paris, FR.
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 Sociological Society. Boston, MA.
Knopf, C.M. (2011). “Materiality & commoditization of war correspondence, from snail-mail to e-mail.” Mediating War & Technology Preconference. International Communication Assoc. Boston, MA.
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. San Diego, CA.
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 Communication Assoc. Cambridge, MA.
Knopf, C.M. (2011). “Suicidal soldiers or wounded warriors: Rhetoric of victimage in defense of military suicides.” Power, Propaganda, & Rhetoric in Public Address. Eastern Communication Assoc. Arlington, VA.
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. London, GB.
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 Communication Assoc. Baltimore, MD.

War

Spectral/Monstros-ities publications...

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.

and presentations

Knopf, C.M. (2018). “Campaign carnage: Horror & politics in comic books.” Political Horror. Popular Culture Assoc, South/American Culture Assoc, South. New Orleans, LA.
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. Denton, TX.
Knopf, C.M. (2017). “A rhetoric of monstrosity: Towards a definition of the American political horror genre.” Humor, horror, & pop culture in politics. Eastern Communication Assoc. Boston, MA.
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. San Diego, CA.

Ghosts

Gender publications...

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. (2022, Feb 14). Jokers, jesters, and gender: Subverting social standards. In Media Res, Transmedia Joker Week.
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, 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, 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. (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.

and presentations

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. St. Louis, MO.
Knopf, C.M. (2023). “Missing the Punchline: Comedy, violence, & a woman on the fringe.” Drawing the Monstrous: Violence, Horror, War. Comics Studies Society. Denton, TX.
Knopf, C.M. (2022). “Roe, reproduction, & representation: Artists on abortion.” Denial, Derogation, & Divisiveness after Dobbs: Communication Perspectives on a Post-Roe World. New York State Communication Assoc. Callicoon, NY.
Knopf, C.M. (2020). “Babes at arms: From firing/pin ups to Bombshells.” Women and War in Superhero Comics. Flyover Comics Symposium, Digital Frontiers. Online.
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. New York State Communication Assoc. Callicoon, NY.
Knopf, C.M. (2019). “Poison Ivy: Militant earth mother.” Warrior Women and Super-Grrrls!: Iconic Feminist Heroines and Their Discontents. Page 23 Literary Conference at the Denver Pop Culture Con. Denver, CO.
Knopf, C.M. (2015). “A fatal femme: How Bomb Queen re-genders politics and war.” POP Girls: Reconsidering the Feminine in Popular Genres and Media Forms. PROJECT: Comic Con Academic Mini-Conference. St. Louis, MO.
Knopf, C.M. (2015). “Making love and war: (Erotic) sexual politics of war revealed in letters of an American military couple.” Section on the Sociology of the Family Roundtable: Sexuality. American Sociological Assoc. Chicago, IL.
Knopf, C.M. (2007). “Participatory communication practices in Dianic Wicca: Witchcraft as third wave feminist action.” Second and Third Wave Feminism and Beyond. National Communication Assoc. Chicago, IL.

Gender

Humor Studies publications...

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.

and presentations

Knopf, C.M. (2022). “The Statue of Trumpery: Ironic metaphor and the visual ideograph.” Top Paper Panel: Memorializing Public Messages of American Presidents. Eastern Communication Assoc. Philadelphia, PA.
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. Online.
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 Communication Assoc. Online.
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 Communication Assoc. Salt Lake City, UT.
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 Sociological Society. Baltimore, MD.
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. Providence, RI.

Humor

Civil/Public Religion publications...

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.

and presentations

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. Bowling Green, OH.
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 Communication Assoc. Chicago, IL.
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. Seattle, WA.
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 Communication Assoc. Pittsburgh, PA.
Knopf, C.M. (2007). “Participatory communication practices in Dianic Wicca: Witchcraft as third wave feminist action.” Second and Third Wave Feminism and Beyond. National Communication Assoc. Chicago, IL.
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 Communication Assoc. Philadelphia, PA.
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 Communication Assoc. Boston, MA.
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 Communication Assoc. Washington, DC.

Religion

Cinematic Studies publications...

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.

and presentations

Knopf, C.M. (2023). “Building resistance: Agency and LEGO Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures.” Material Resistance. Realizing Resistance Episode III, Digital Cultural Studies Cooperative. Online.
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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 Communication Assoc. Boston, MA.

Cinema

Animation Studies publications...

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.

and presentations

Knopf, C.M. (2023). “Building resistance: Agency & LEGO Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures.” Material Resistance. Realizing Resistance Episode III, Digital Cultural Studies Cooperative. Online.
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 Communication Assoc. Baltimore, MD.
Knopf, C.M. (2019). “Animating #VeteransVoices: StoryCorps, cartoons, and the civil-military gap.” Animation and Public Engagement Symposium. Lubbock, TX.

Animation

Circus

Circus Studies publications...

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.

and presentations

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

Rhetorics of Health & Death publications...

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.

and presentations

Knopf, C.M. (2023). “Visual surreality: Time, germs, and other things (un)seen in COVID comics.” Media Ecology Assoc. New York, NY.
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 Communication Assoc. Baltimore, MD.
Knopf, C.M. (2023). “Comics, covidity, and visualizing the invisible.” Schering Plough Executive Lectures Series, Fairleigh Dickinson University. Virtual.
Knopf, C.M. (2022). “Junctures and ruptures: COVID, comics, and visualizing the invisible.” Wilson Lecture, New York State Communication Assoc. Callicoon, NY.
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. New York State Communication Assoc. Callicoon, NY.
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 Communication Assoc. Seattle, WA.
Knopf, C.M. (2019). “Cartoon commemoration & commentary on the death of John McCain.” Bidding Senator John McCain Goodbye: Memorializing Across Genres & Contexts. Eastern Communication Assoc. Providence RI.
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 Sociological Assoc. Las Vegas, NV.
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 Communication Assoc. Arlington, VA.
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 Communication Assoc. Baltimore, MD

Health

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