Covid Archive
Explore diverse COVID-19 storytelling: essays, poems, art, documenting global experiences, resilience, and loss.
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大疫 [The Pandemic]
Politicized Pandemic Narratives: A Case Study of Hong Kong
Grand Theft Hamlet
Fighting a Global Pandemic and Local Stigmatisation: War Metaphors in Presidential Update Speeches and Their Effect on Attitudes to COVID -19 (Patients) in Ghana
‘Mask Must Wear at All Times’: Top-down and Bottom-up MultilingualCOVID-Scape in Hong Kong as a Prime Site of Epidemiological and Public Health Knowledge (Re)Construction during the COVID-19 Pandemic
20-Somethings Lost Something in the Pandemic. They Still Haven’t Found It
Do You Hear the People’s Nonsense? Performing Resistance in Pandemic-Era China
Not the Foreign Force (Ürümqi Middle Road)
Martyrs in Masks: The ‘Battle-Hero-Saviour’ Story Grammar of COVID-19 Coverage in Chinese Communist Party Media
伟人 [Hero]
During the Pandemic, I Lost the Ability to Read
Children Hit Hardest by the Pandemic Are Now the Big Kids at School. Many Still Need Reading Help
South Asian COVID-19 Memoirs: Mourning and Erasure of ‘Grievable Lives
‘A Plague Broke out Among Them’: Reflections on the Bible and the Pandemic
A Plague Broke out Among Them’: Reflections on the Bible and the Pandemic
COVID, Crisis, and the Search for Story in the Platform Age
Indigenous Food Sovereignty in the Time Of COVID-19
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Consuming to Cope: The Luxury of Consuming in the COVID-19 Pandemic
Problematizing Cultural Difference: YouTube Narratives about COVID-19 by South Korean and American Vloggers
Why People May Be Forgetting Their COVID Pandemic Memories
The Pandemic Puzzle—Reviewing the Existing Pieces, Searching for the Missing Ones
COVID Pandemic: Three Years On and Nobody Wants to Talk About It – Here’s Why We Should
The Superhero and the Salted Fish: The Aesthetic of the Ordinary in ‘Doomsday’ Chinese Web Fiction
Background
Corpus
Our research spans 2020-2025, detailing pandemic waves, lockdowns, vaccinations, and recovery. Factors include ability, age, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, socio-economic positions.
Method
Our databank selections capture diverse pandemic narratives, prioritizing inclusivity, with ongoing updates and scholarly annotations.
Resource for Research
Our database probes COVID-19 narratives’ aesthetic, social, cultural roles, offering insight, therapy, and debunking misinformation.
Values
The database transcends literature norms, emphasizes global humanity, solidarity, equity, diversity, inclusion, amplifying marginalized voices.
Submit your Research on COVID-19
Scholars and Researchers: Submit your essay engaging with any aspect of telling COVID-19 stories. We are looking for thesis-driven research, with a clear theory framework, a body of analysis that shows concrete examples, and a conclusion. Images are welcome. Articles are subject to peer-review and editing.
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