Covid Archive
Explore diverse COVID-19 storytelling: essays, poems, art, documenting global experiences, resilience, and loss.
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Research and Teaching in a Pandemic World: The Challenges of Establishing Academic Identities During Times of Crisis
Covid-19 ‘Survivors’ Guilt’ Haunting African Researcher in the US
Being Human during COVID
My COVID Experience: ‘I Wish It Was Different.’” Journal of Palliative Medicine
The Covid Canvas: Artist Profiles and Interviews of the Pandemic Era
The Fell
Doctors and Friends
A Shot to Save the World: The Inside Story of the Life-or-Death Race for a COVID-19 Vaccine
Left in the Dark: COVID Behind Bars
Embodied Dread in COVID-19 Images and Narratives
Shelter in Place: Poems in a Time of COVID-19
On the Origin of the Deadliest Pandemic in 100 Years: An Investigation
2020. COVID-19 and Its Ghosts at Our Doorsteps: Transformations, Opportunities and Limits
Crisis Zone
This Will All Be Over Soon: A Memoir
The Pandemic Reader: Exposing Social (In)Justice in the Time of COVID-19 (Critical Pedagogies)
Year of the Nurse: A Covid-19 Pandemic Memoir
My COVID Diary: ‘First It Was the Infection; Then It Turned into Stress and Anxiety
Dr. Fauci: How a Boy from Brooklyn Became America’s Doctor
Nightmare Scenario: Inside the Trump Administration’s Response to the Pandemic That Changed History
Queer and COVID-19 Positive: Contagion, Suspicion, and Stigma
Plague, Pestilence and Pandemic: Voices from History
Through a Screen Darkly: Psychoanalytic Reflections During the Pandemic
C’RONA Pandemic Comics
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.