Covid Archive
Explore diverse COVID-19 storytelling: essays, poems, art, documenting global experiences, resilience, and loss.
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The Literature of Cabin Fever
Disunity in Times of Crisis: COVID-19, Geopolitics and Vaccine Nationalism
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
Coronavirus Criminals and Pandemic Profiteers: Accountability for Those Who Caused the Crisis
Joan is Okay
How High We Go in the Dark
Gender, Food and COVID-19: Global Stories of Harm and Hope
This Is What a 16-Hour Hospital Shift Is Like for Me While Omicron Rages
To Paradise
Research and Teaching in a Pandemic World: The Challenges of Establishing Academic Identities During Times of Crisis
The COVID Journals: Healthcare Workers Write the Pandemic
The Privilege of Staying Home: COVID and the Highly Skilled Workforce
A Few Math Problems for Mothers with COVID
Being Human during COVID
The Fell
A Welcome Unfreedom in South Korea
Through Photography, Migrant Filipina Care Workers Share Their Hopes and Fears While Working During COVID-19
A Shot to Save the World: The Inside Story of the Life-or-Death Race for a COVID-19 Vaccine
The ‘COVID Excuse’: EUropean Border Violence in the Mediterranean Sea
COVID-19 Narratives and Layered Temporality
‘It Feels a Bit Like Drowning’: Expectations and Experiences of Motherhood During COVID-19
Why Are People Nostalgic for Early-Pandemic Life?
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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.
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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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