Covid Archive
Explore diverse COVID-19 storytelling: essays, poems, art, documenting global experiences, resilience, and loss.
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Fruit Bat [果蝠]
Western and Chinese Media Representation of Africa in COVID-19 News Coverage
Apollo’s Arrow: The Profound and Enduring Impact of Coronavirus on the Way We Live
The Meaning of Freedom After COVID-19
Vizards, Face Gloves and Window Hoods – A History of Masks in Western Fashion
Pas de Deux
Dave Scott of Swan Lake First Nation: COVID-Community Extended Interview
Covid-19
Strasbourg 1518
Get Lost Dirty Covid 19!
If You Don’t Mask, You Don’t Get
Really Real Dragons
Three Stories of Life in Gaza during the CoronavirusPandemic
I Hate My Prison Dorm so Much, I Enjoyed COVID-19 Quarantine in the Box
My Big COVID Breakup Cost Me My Friends
“Seven Days in Lockdown”: A Performance Autoethnography of Physical Activity and Mental Health
In The Penal Colony: Outsourcing Australia’s Detention Industry
Reflections of a COVID-19 Long Hauler
The Pull of the Stars: A Novel
Pandemic Drawings
Homemade
Gender, Food and COVID-19: Global Stories of Harm and Hope
Liu Xiaodong: Spring in New York
Museum Digital Initiatives during the Coronavirus 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.