The ICCS is the umbrella organization of all national and interregional Canadian Studies societies in the world. The largest of those are the Association for Canadian Studies in the United States (ACSUS), the Indian Association for Canadian Studies (IACS), and the Association for Canadian Studies in German- Speaking Countries (GKS). Knopf holds a professorship for North- American and postcolonial literature and cultural sciences at the University of Bremen and was vice president and president of the GKS between 2015 and 2019.