The thirty-seventh episode of Semantic Reactions, the official podcast of the Institute of General Semantics, is now available for your listening pleasure. Our Septembrer 2025 podcast features features Cristina Knopf, a professor of Communication and Media Studies at the State University of New York at Cortland, in conversation with IGS president Lance Strate. Their discussion focuses on her research in comics studies and reflections on the comic book medium, its history, and the superhero genre, as well as the depiction of superheroes in movies and television, including this past summer’s films featuring Superman, and the Fantastic Four. 

You can access Episode 37 via our host site, and it is also available through most major podcast platforms, also on YouTube, and below: