“Goddess Troubles: Gender and Feminity in Lore Olympus.” Forthcoming from MAI Feminism, 2023.

“Without Water: Willingly Enduring the Speculative Landscape.” Forthcoming from Helice, 2023.

“Someone Else’s Icon: Complicating Comics and Identification.” INKS, vol. 6, no. 3, 2022.

“A Genuine Messiah: The Erosion of Political Messaging in Dune 2021.” Ekphrasis, vol. 28, no. 2, 2022

“A Fairy Tale Apocalypse: Nature, Humanity, and Disease in Stand Still Stay Silent.” Marvels and Tales, vol. 35, no. 1, 2021.

“Moving Forward: Gender, Genre, and Why There’s No Hard Fantasy.” The New Americanist, vol. 1 no. 3, Autumn 2019.

“Building the World: Ecopunk TTRPGs and Collaborative Critical Societies.” SF and Societal Vulnerability: Fragility, Collapse, and Transformation, forthcoming.

“Queer Comics Queered.” Comics: A Companion, forthcoming from Peter Lang.

“New Pronouns and New Uses: Gender Variance and Language in Contemporary Science Fiction.” The Routledge Companion to Gender and Science Fiction, Routledge, Spring 2023.

“Nature Versus Player: Skyrim Players and Modders as Ecological Force.” In Being Dragonborn: Critical Essays on The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, edited by Mike Piero and Marc Ouellette, McFarland Press. June 2021.

Review of The Paradox of Blackness in African American Vampire Fiction, by Jerry Rafiki Jenkins. Appeared in vol. 51, no. 2, SFRA Review, 2021

Review of Phantasmal Spaces: Archetypal Venues in Video Games, by Matthias Fuchs. Appeared in vol. 31, no. 1, Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, 2020

Review of Regarding Frames: Thinking with Comics in the Twenty-First Century, by Shiamin Kwa. Appeared in vol. 22, no. 1, International Journal of Comic Art, 2020

Grifka Wander, M. “Digital Time, Space, and Comics.” Paper presented at “Comics strike back: digital comics, digital audiences, digital practices,” Ghent, Belgium, July 2022

Grifka Wander, M. “Mapping the Fantastic City—and its Crime.” Paper presented at the annual conference for the International Society for the Study of Narrative, Chichester, England, June 2022

Grifka Wander, M. “Learning to Use Elfroot: Video Games and Worldbuilding.” Paper presented at GIFCon, Glasgow, Ireland, April 2022

Grifka Wander, M. “Reckoning with Difference in the Anthropocene.” Paper presented at the research incubator Humanities for the Anthropocene: Values, Principles, and Practices, July 2021

Grifka Wander, M. “Locating Blackness at the End of the World: N.K. Jemisin’s Broken Earth and the Black Anthropocene.” Paper presented at the annual conference of the International Association of the Fantastic in the Arts. Later published in SFRA Review, vol. 51, no. 3. March 2021

Grifka Wander, M. “Branching Romance: Queer Visual Novels.” Paper presented at the annual Northeastern Modern Language Association conference, March 2021

Grifka Wander, M. “Queer Goose Games: Pastoral Queerness in Untitled Goose Game.” Scheduled for presentation at the annual Queerness and Games Conference, cancelled due to COVID19, March 2020

Grifka Wander, M. “A Fairy Tale Apocalypse: Time, Nature, and Magic in Stand Still, Stay Silent.” Scheduled for presentation at the annual International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, cancelled due to COVID19, March 2020

Grifka Wander, M. “Connecting Queerly: Queer Webcomics and the Comments-Section Community.” Paper presented at the annual Modern Language Association conference, January 2020

Grifka Wander, M. “Renegotiating Coming Out Through Humor: Tumblr Coming Out Narratives.” Paper presented at the annual Popular Culture Association conference, April 2019

Grifka Wander, M. “Idle Horror: Idle Browser Games and the Horror of the Internet.” Paper presented at the annual conference of the International Association of the Fantastic in the Arts, March 2019

Grifka Wander, M. “Queers, Horror, and No-Fun Games: Queerness and Trauma in the Body of the Gamer.” Paper presented at the annual Queer Games Conference, October 2018

Grifka Wander, M. “Walking Through the Game World: Embodied Narrative Architecture in Video Games.” Paper presented at the annual conference of the Northeastern Modern Language Association, April 2018

Grifka Wander, M. “The Digital Pastoral.” Paper presented at the annual conference of the Brandeis University English Department, March 2018

Grifka Wander, M. “Reading Beyond the Printed Page: Comics and Their Supplements Online.” Paper presented at the annual conference of the University of Chicago English Department, November 2017