Covid Archive
Explore diverse COVID-19 storytelling: essays, poems, art, documenting global experiences, resilience, and loss.
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A Plague Broke out Among Them’: Reflections on the Bible and the Pandemic
How a Fourth Case of Covid Changed My Perspective on the Pandemic
I Became a Pastor during the Pandemic
Outbreak Diaries: March 2020 to September 2021
Go Ahead, Joke about the Pandemic: The Public-Health Power of Humor on Black Twitter
What World Is This? A Pandemic Phenomenology
Home Safe: A Memoir of End-of-Life Care During Covid-19
Let’s Declare a Pandemic Amnesty
Shadows and Light: A Physician’s Lens on COVID-19
My COVID19 Diary
“Seven Days in Lockdown”: A Performance Autoethnography of Physical Activity and Mental Health
Now That We Can Finally Go Out, Why Do I Actually Hate It?
The Quarantine Atlas: Mapping Global Life Under COVID-19
The Literature of Cabin Fever
My Big COVID Breakup Cost Me My Friends
A Pandemic Tragedy in Guayaquil: How Ecuador’s Largest City Endured One of the World’s Most Lethal Outbreaks of COVID-19
COVID Has Changed the Way I Eat. Don’t Take Chances with Omicron
Coronavirus Criminals and Pandemic Profiteers: Accountability for Those Who Caused the Crisis
A Welcome Unfreedom in South Korea
Joan is Okay
How High We Go in the Dark
Gender, Food and COVID-19: Global Stories of Harm and Hope
To Paradise
Research and Teaching in a Pandemic World: The Challenges of Establishing Academic Identities During Times of Crisis
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.
Share your Personal COVID-19 Story
Creative writers: Contribute to our global narrative project, amplifying diverse experiences and challenges.