Covid Archive
Explore diverse COVID-19 storytelling: essays, poems, art, documenting global experiences, resilience, and loss.
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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
A Study of Metaphorical Narratives in News Cartoons on Novel Corona-virus
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
Money Can Buy Health’ Risk and Protection in Hong Kong’s COVID-19 Advertisement-Scape
How the Pandemic Affected Our Approach to Reading and Interpretation of Books
The Pandemic Has Remade Friendship
Go Ahead, Joke about the Pandemic: The Public-Health Power of Humor on Black Twitter
Let’s Declare a Pandemic Amnesty
The Pandemic and Its Shadow. Feminist Theoretical and ArtDiscourses on Trauma and Community in COVID-19
Turns Out COVID-19 Didn’t Reshape Geopolitics
Poetry Can Inspire: An Anthology of Global Chinese-languagePoetry in the Age of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Extremist Language in Anti-COVID-19 Conspiracy Discourse on Facebook
My COVID19 Diary
How a Fourth Case of Covid Changed My Perspective on the Pandemic
荒原 [The Barren Field]
Agenda Dynamics on Social Media During COVID-19Pandemic: Interactions Between Public, Media, and Government Agendas
“It’s (Not) Like the Flu”: Expert Narratives and the COVID‐19 Pandemic in Mainland China, Hong Kong, and the United States
Mobilizing Stories of Illness in Digital Contexts: A Critical Approach to Narrative, Voice, and Visibility
A Sour Taste of Sick Chronicity: Pandemic Time and the Violence of Returning to Normal
Now That We Can Finally Go Out, Why Do I Actually Hate It?
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.