Christina Knopf, Communication and Media Studies Department, had a chapter titled “AfterShock’s Rough Riders and the Reification of Race Reimagined,” published in the anthology Drawing the Past (Vol. 1): Comics and the Historical Imagination in the United States, from the University Press of Mississippi. The essay argues that though speculative histories purportedly challenge historical record and accepted limits of physical and social worlds, an alt-history founded on an aesthetic of capitalist and colonial violence (steampunk) will be restricted in its ability suggest new visions of equity and inclusion.