Covid Archive
Explore diverse COVID-19 storytelling: essays, poems, art, documenting global experiences, resilience, and loss.
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The ‘COVID Excuse’: EUropean Border Violence in the Mediterranean Sea
Love in the Time of Corona: Heterosexual Romance, Space, and Society in Japanese Fiction on COVID-19
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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Embodied Dread in COVID-19 Images and Narratives
Media Frames of COVID-19 Pandemic
Shelter in Place: Poems in a Time of COVID-19
On the Origin of the Deadliest Pandemic in 100 Years: An Investigation
The Art of the COVID Copy
Why Do Some Get Hooked on Pandemic Terror and Phobic Energy?: Aeon Essays
The Pandemic Reader: Exposing Social (In)Justice in the Time of COVID-19 (Critical Pedagogies)
Pandemics: Humans Are the Culprits
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
Covid Love
A Relational Reflection on Pandemic Nationalism
The Pandemic Diaries: Amplifying the Voices of Asia-Pacific Children and Youth in the Global COVID-19 Crisis
My Experience of COVID-19, or Personal History as Data for the Sociologist
Back to the Future: Lessons of a SARS Hysteria for the COVID-19 Pandemic
Metaphors We Lie By: Our ‘War’ Against COVID-19
Life Disrupted and Regenerated: Coping With the ‘New Normal’ Creative Arts in the Time of Coronavirus
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.