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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.

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Eastern Communication Association, March 20-24, Cambridge MA:

• “Distortions and distractions: The visual rhetoric of celebrity spectacle surrounding Trump’s indictments.” The shifting currents of Trump's legal imbroglios: Indictments, integrity, & impenitence.

• “The national recurring nightmare: Ford’s inaugural speech 50 years later.” Public Address of 1974, Fifty Years Later.

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So You Think You Know... Scarecrow (University Press of Mississippi)

Blind Spots: The 13th Annual Illustration Research Symposium, November 2-4, St. Louis, MO.

• “Bombs & bombshells, aluminum and Lace: Milton Caniff at the intersections of illustration & insignia in World War II,” with D.F. Yezbick. Recovering & recontextualizing race & gender in illustration.

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National Communication Association, November 15-19, National Harbor, MD:

• “The Abolition of rhetoric? A consideration of visual rhetoric & AI illustration in The Abolition of Man Comic.” Innovation & effects in visual communication technology.

• “Freedom of the press: Journalistic accountability, fake news, and the ‘truth’ in Spider-Man.” Superheroes & the meaning of “freedom:” Social, personal, & structural dimension.

New York State Communication Association, October 13-15, Callicoon, NY:

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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.

Bowling Green State University Spider-Man in Popular Culture Conference, September 29-30, Bowling Green, OH.

• “Mother Goddesses & the incarnation, passion, & resurrection of Spider-Man: The transformative nature of Shriek, Shathra, & Ero.” Spider-Man & religion: Spinning a web of spirituality.

Archival research at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum, August 8-11, funded by the Lucy Shelton Caswell Research Award.

San Diego Comic Con International, July 19-23, San Diego, CA:

• Admissions Departments Emitting Geek Vibes: College Course Focused on Pop Culture.

• Comics on Campus: Academia vs. Fandom (Battle or a Collab?).

Comics Studies Society, July 27-29, Denton, TX:

• “Missing the Punchline: Comedy, violence, & a woman on the fringe.” Drawing the monstrous: Violence, horror, war.

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• 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, pp. 105-120. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

• 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). 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. Routledge India.

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