She is, without question, one of the most amiably eager, inspiring researchers, and diversified scholars with which I have had the pleasure to collaborate.

The upward trajectory of Dr. Knopf’s continuing work as a rhetorical critic, student of mediated political communication, and scholar of visual discourses is unlimited.

📚 Research Areas

🔖 Annotated Bibliography

Publications

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, 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. (2024). Review – Dead Funny: The Humor of American Horror, David Gillota (Rutgers University Press). Studies in American Humor, 10(1), 146-149.
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). Review – Drawing Liberalism: Herblock’s Political Cartoons in Postwar America, Simon Appleford (University of Virginia Press). International Journal of Comic Art, 25(10), 593-596.
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 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). Book review: Drawling liberalism: Herblock’s Political Cartoons in Postwar America by Simon Appleford – University of Virginia Press, 2023. International Journal of Comic Art.
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 https://journals.library.unt.edu/index.php/unbound/article/view/215/113.
Knopf, C.M. (2023, Apr 10). Anger and fear and feminism. In Media Res, Quantumania, the Multiverse, and the State of the MCU Week, https://mediacommons.org/imr/content/anger-and-fear-and-feminism.
Knopf, C.M. (2023). Sharkstorms: 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). 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.
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. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Knopf, C.M. (nd). Political cartoons and comics bibliography. Graphic Possibilities, Michigan State University Press.
Knopf, C.M. (2023). “Fear of faith” and faith over fear: Scarecrow as emblem of a Purgatorial Gotham. In M. Brake & C.K. Robertson (Eds.), Batman and Theology: Examining the religious world of the Dark Knight, pp. 69-79. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
Knopf, C.M. (2023). Heterotopia and horror at Show’s End. In F.G.P. Berns & J. Darowski (Eds.), Critical approaches to horror comic books: Red ink in the gutter, pp. 223-234. New York: Routledge.
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. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co.
Knopf, C.M. (2022). Review – The Great Illustrators of Edgar Allan Poe, Tony Magistrale & Jessica Slayton (Anthem Press). Edgar Allan Poe Review, 23(1), 79-82.
Knopf, C.M. (2022, Feb 14). Joker, jesters, and gender: Subverting social standards. In Media Res, Transmedia Joker Week, https://mediacommons.org/imr/content/joker-jesters-and-gender-subverting-social-standards-1.
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). “Like his dad”: Epistolic constructions of American children in World War II. Home Front Studies, 1(1), 59-83.
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 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. Pritzker Military Museum & Library.
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 Others) sightings in Saucer Country: Metaphors of identity and campaign politics. In S. Langsdale & E. Coody (Eds.), Monstrous women in comics, pp. 257-273. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi.
Knopf, C.M. (2020, Apr 15). Menacing and maternal: The limits of motherhood in Spider-Man. In Media Res, Spider-Man Week, http://mediacommons.org/imr/content/menacing-and-maternal-limits-motherhood-spider-man.
Knopf, C.M. (2019). “Carrie Fisher sent me”: Princess Leia as an avatar of the Women’s March. Unbound: A Journal of Digital Scholarship, 1(1), https://journals.library.unt.edu/index.php/unbound/article/view/103/66 .
Knopf, C.M. (2019, Oct 14). The new nostalgic impulse of Dungeons & Dragons and tabletop gaming. In Media Res, Tabletop Gaming Week, http://mediacommons.org/imr/content/new-nostalgic-impulse-dungeons-dragons-and-tabletop-gaming.
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,” http://www.flowjournal.org/2019/09/queer-female-superheroes/.
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: Critical essays on Hellboy and the comics art of Mike Mignola, pp. 144-155. Moro, IL: Sequart Organization.
Knopf, C.M. (2019). Review – Memories from the Frontline: Memoirs and Meanings of the Great War from Britain, France and Germany, Jerry Palmer (Palgrave). European Journal of Communication, 39, 1, 100-103.
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). Review – The Phantom Unmasked: America’s First Superhero, Kevin Patrick (University of Iowa). Communication Booknotes Quarterly, 49, 3, 82-84.
Knopf, C.M. (2018, Jun 11). BrainDead: The horrors of election 2016. In Media Res, Politics & Horror Week, http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/imr/2018/05/29/braindead-horrors-election-2016.
Knopf, C.M. (2018). Queen of burlesque: The subtle (as a hammer) satire of Bomb Queen. In M. Goodrum, T. Prescott, and P. Smith (Eds.), Gender and the superhero narrative. 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, pp. 123-137. Rutgers University Press.
Knopf, C.M. (2018). Marvel’s Shamrock: Haunted heroine, working woman, guardian of the galaxy. In M. DiPaolo (Ed.), Working class comic book heroes, pp. 206-225. Jackson MS: University Press of Mississippi.
Knopf, C.M. (2017). Anderson, Julie M. In S.C. Howard (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Black Comics, p. 3. Golden, CO: Fulcrum.
Knopf, C.M. (2017). Grant, Shauna J. In S.C. Howard (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Black Comics, p. 86. Golden, CO: Fulcrum.
Knopf, C.M. (2017). Grant, Vernon Ethelbert. In S.C. Howard (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Black Comics, p. 89. Golden, CO: Fulcrum.
Knopf, C.M. (2017). Robinson, Jimmie Lee. In S.C. Howard (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Black Comics, p. 181. Golden, CO: Fulcrum.
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, 171-92.
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. (2006). Review – Presidents in Culture: The Meaning of Presidential Communication, David Michael Ryfe (Peter Lang). PUBLIZISTIK – Vierteljahreshefte fuer Kommunikationsforschung, 3, 396-7.

Invited Presentations

________ (2025, Jan). Misinformation, Misdirection, Manipulation and Mischief: Making Sense of Contemporary Political Propaganda. A New York Society for General Semantics event. New York, NY.
_________ (2024, Nov). Reflections on the 2024 Presidential election. National Communication Association. New Orleans, LA.
_________ (2024, Jul). Hands on: Developing the skills and finding the right jobs in pop culture. Comic Con for Educators & Librarians at Comic Con International. San Diego, CA.
________ (2023, Jul). Admissions Departments Emitting Geek Vibes: College Course Focused on Pop Culture. Comic Con International. San Diego, CA.
________ (2023, Jul). Comics on Campus: Academia vs. Fandom (Battle or a Collab?). Comic Con International. San Diego, CA.
Knopf, C.M. (2023, Jan). “Comics, covidity, and visualizing the invisible.” Schering-Plough Executive Lectures Series, Fairleigh Dickinson University. Virtual.
________ (2022, Nov). Military Humor. Military at Microsoft. Knopf, C.M. (2022, Nov) “Veteran-created war comics and the workaday war.” Comics, Security, and the American Mission, The Ohio State University. Columbus, OH.
Knopf, C.M. (2022, Oct). “Junctures and ruptures: COVID, comics, and visualizing the invisible.” Wilson Lecture, New York State Communication Association. Callicoon, NY.
________ (2022, Jul). Comics on Campus: Fandom + Academia. Comic Con International. San Diego, CA.
________ (2021, Nov). Superheroes Smackdown. Comics/Screen Studies Roundtable. Radford University.
________ (2017, Mar). The Military in Cartoon: Veteran Comic Creators – a Panel Discussion. Border Town Comic-Con. Ontario, OR.
Knopf, C.M. (2016, Oct). “The comic art of war: Comedy, comics, and miltoons.” SOAR North Country. Potsdam, NY.
Knopf, C.M. (2016, Aug). “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.
________ (2016, Nov). Frustrated and Misunderstood: Faculty Discuss Their Feelings about Campus Handling of Issues of Race and Racism. Day of Reflection: Education for Racial Equity and Justice. SUNY Potsdam.
________ (2013, Oct). Women and Success: A Panel Discussion. Women and Leadership. SUNY Potsdam.
________ (2008, Oct). Know Your Vote. Student Liaison Committee and the Student Government Association. SUNY Potsdam.
________ (2008, Feb). Campaign ‘08 Open Discussion. Student Life, Draime Hall, SUNY Potsdam.
Knopf, C.M. (2007, Feb). “The rhetorical myth-step in the 2005 inaugural address.” Pratt Colloquium Series. SUNY Potsdam.