Covid Archive
Explore diverse COVID-19 storytelling: essays, poems, art, documenting global experiences, resilience, and loss.
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Crisis Zone
2020. COVID-19 and Its Ghosts at Our Doorsteps: Transformations, Opportunities and Limits
This Will All Be Over Soon: A Memoir
Love and Social Distancing in the Time of COVID-19: The Philosophy and Literature of Pandemics
Religion and Faith Perception in a Pandemic of COVID‐19
Keeping the City Going
Poetics in the Time of Pandemic. There is Always Going to be a Before and an After
Online News Media Framing of COVID-19 Pandemic: Probing the Initial Phases of the Disease Outbreak in International Media
Stronger Together: A COVID Super Hero Adventure
A Shot to Save the World: The Inside Story of the Life-or-Death Race for a COVID-19 Vaccine
Outside, Inside
Memoirs and Misinformation
I Am Sorry For Your Loss: Memoirs of a COVID-19 Survivor
I Hate the Mom That Covid Has Made Me
Teens in Covid Isolation: ‘I Felt like I Was Suffocating
Viral Biopolitics: COVID-19 and the Living Dead
Residency Diary: Second Year—COVID-19 in New York
The Year of the ‘rona: An Uncontrolled Trial in Verse
During the COVID-19 Crisis, Don’t Shoot the Messenger
Information Authoritarianism vs. Information Anarchy: A Comparison of Information Ecosystems in Mainland China and Hong Kong during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Singing in the Dark: A Global Anthology of Poetry under Lockdown
COVID-19 through the Eyes of Latina Children
Stewart: Prisoner Support Volunteer
Parenting with Agoraphobia Is Hard. It’s Harder in a Pandemic
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.