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Monograph by Yvonne Völkl
Edited Books by Yvonne Völkl
Pandemic Protagonists, 2023
In the peer-reviewed edited volume on "Pandemic Protagonists" we seek to gain insight into the ar... more In the peer-reviewed edited volume on "Pandemic Protagonists" we seek to gain insight into the array of main characters or certain groups of characters appearing in pandemic and Corona Fictions from a literary, cultural, and media studies point of view.
We especially encourage the submission of inter- and transmedia analyses as well as comparative studies of pandemic and Corona Fictions. We also welcome essays on this topic.
For further details, please consult our Call for Articles.
Ertler, Klaus-Dieter; Baudry, Samuel; Völkl, Yvonne (Hg.) (2018) Discourses on Economy in the Spe... more Ertler, Klaus-Dieter; Baudry, Samuel; Völkl, Yvonne (Hg.) (2018) Discourses on Economy in the Spectators / Discours sur l’économie dans les spectateurs. Hamburg: Dr. Kovač.
Die Informationen in der vorliegenden Broschüre wurden sorgfältig recherchiert (Redaktionsschluss... more Die Informationen in der vorliegenden Broschüre wurden sorgfältig recherchiert (Redaktionsschluss 20. Dezember 2016). Die hier erwähnten Einrichtungen, Vereine und Plattformen wurden über die Aufnahme in die Broschüre informiert. Die HerausgeberInnen übernehmen keine Haftung für die Richtigkeit, Vollständigkeit oder Aktualität der wiedergegebenen Informationen. Dies gilt ebenso für alle Webseiten und E-Mail-Adressen, auf die mittels Hyperlinks verwiesen wird.
Papers by Yvonne Völkl
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Jun 13, 2023
The interdisciplinary conference entitled Pandemic Protagonists. Viral (Re)Actions in Pandemic an... more The interdisciplinary conference entitled Pandemic Protagonists. Viral (Re)Actions in Pandemic and Corona Fictions was held as part of the Corona Fictions project 2 from June 1 st to June 3 rd , 2023, at Graz University of Technology. It marked the culmination of a year of joint work on the recently published volume of the same title 3 , which stood at the center of the conference. Within this framework, the organising committee 4 invited all scholars whose contributions had appeared in the volume.
Edition Kulturwissenschaft, Apr 3, 2023
transcript Verlag eBooks, Dec 31, 2023
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Jan 12, 2023
The Corona Fictions Database 2 is an essential part of the research project Corona Fictions. On V... more The Corona Fictions Database 2 is an essential part of the research project Corona Fictions. On Viral Narratives in Times of Pandemics funded by the Austrian Science Fund FWF (P 34571-G). The team members are Elisabeth Hobisch, Yvonne Völkl (project leader), Julia Obermayr, Tommaso Meozzi, Albert Göschl and Daniel Milkovits. 3 As a result of the Covid-19 health crisis declared as a pandemic in early March 2020 (cf. Adhanom Ghebreyesus 2020), political and media discourse focused mainly on medical and economical solutions to thwart and contain the pandemic. The public, however, largely turned to cultural productions in order to make meaning of and to cope with this unprecedented event (cf. Obermayr/Völkl 2022a). The main purpose of the Corona Fictions project is to collect, categorize and analyze the cultural production resulting from this global pandemic, in regards to its social function and constitutive power determining how we perceive this extraordinary situation. In order to understand the composition, compilation and functioning of the Corona Fictions Database, we describe in the following the corpus entering the bibliographical database, the process of data collection and structuringincluding the specific challenges encountered in this processas well as the functionality of the database. Corona Fictions When the Covid-19 pandemic was declared, on the one hand, people started to consult existing 'pandemic fictions', meaning "literary and cultural productions, which rely strongly on the representation and functionalization of epi-and pandemics" (Research Group Pandemic Fictions 2020, 323). On the other hand, they started to produce their own narratives in diverse media to process these extraordinary experiences. Within weeks and months, authors and directorsprofessional and non professional alikecreated and distributed countless diaries, anthologies of essays and poems, web series and music videos, often online. Knowing that generally cultural productions not only document life as it is, but also determine and modify our view of the world, 4 the main objective of our open access database is to document Corona Fictions, understood as a constitutive factor of what people experience as the Covid-19 pandemic and as a future cultural heritage. Our main focus lies on the romance languages Spanish, Italian and French, but as the pandemicaccording to its natureis happening on a global scale, we are also inclined to additionally include cultural productions in other languages into our database.
Altre Modernità
In March 2020, more than 100 governments around the world imposed partial or full lockdown polici... more In March 2020, more than 100 governments around the world imposed partial or full lockdown policies prohibiting people to leave their homes except for activities deemed essential (e.g. procuring food, going to work) to reduce SARS-CoV-2 transmissions. Furthermore, authorities, media and peers encouraged people to adopt physical distancing behaviors, requesting not to touch each other and even keep a distance of at least one to two meters from one another. Cultural and literary productions—so-called Corona Fictions—represent and process the multitude of ways the population perceived and coped with the lockdown situation during the pandemic and its diverse effects. While literary texts written during confinement and published in anthologies focus on emotional states enhanced by the psychological impact of the lockdown, the narratives in films such as Norberto Ramos del Val’s ¡Ni te me acerques! (2020) focus on negotiating the process of physical distancing itself. This contribution wi...
Pensamiento, Pandemia y Big Data
En marzo de 2020, cuando la OMS declaró la pandemia de COVID-19, 1 de repente, las sociedades del... more En marzo de 2020, cuando la OMS declaró la pandemia de COVID-19, 1 de repente, las sociedades del mundo entero se encontraron en estado de emergencia. Mientras la política empezó a consultar a especialistas médicos, tales como virólogxs, epidemiólogxs y expertxs en salud pública, la gente empezó a gestionar la situación consultando producciones culturales existentes sobre situaciones similares. Hubo, por ejemplo, una lectura pública en línea de La peste (1947) de Albert Camus en Austria 2 y en las librerías se agotaron los libros relacionados con enfermedades y epidemias. A la vez, la gente se puso a escribir con el fin de documentar la situación, de consolar y entretener, 3 pero también para mejor gestionar las propias experiencias traumáticas que resultaban de la pandemia. 4 Sin embargo, debido al actual paisaje mediático, la repercusión de la situación experimentada como excepcional-hubo siempre epidemias, enfermedades
Die Labor-Metapher ist in den Digital Humanities (DH) weit verbreitet und wird aktuell verstärkt ... more Die Labor-Metapher ist in den Digital Humanities (DH) weit verbreitet und wird aktuell verstärkt im Kontext der wissenschaftssoziologischen ›laboratory studies‹ auf vielfältige Weise diskutiert. Häufig betonen DH-Labore dabei den Aspekt des wissenschaftlichen Austauschs und der Kollaboration, der in den interdisziplinären Konstellationen der DH geradezu genre-prägend ist. Darüber hinaus ist das Labor traditionell eng verknüpft mit der Funktion als Experimentierstätte. In DH-Labs werden dementsprechend geistes- und kulturwissenschaftliche Daten in Experimentalsettings aufbereitet, transformiert, kodiert und mithilfe von speziellen Instrumenten und Verfahren – also digitalen Tools und Methoden – analysiert. Die regelmäßige Reflexion des wechselseitigen Einflusses von digitalen Methoden und bestehenden Theorien sowie auch Epistemen eröffnet im DH-Lab zusätzlich die Möglichkeit erkenntnistheoretischer Versuche. Dabei fungieren DH-Labs auch als dynamische Werkstätten des Wissens. Grundle...
Sozialer Zusammenhalt in der Krise
Fiktionale Erzählungen dienen als Spiegel der Welt. Egal ob in Liebes-, Helden-oder Katastropheng... more Fiktionale Erzählungen dienen als Spiegel der Welt. Egal ob in Liebes-, Helden-oder Katastrophengeschichten, zumeist erzählen sie vom zwischenmenschlichen Miteinander. An solchen Geschichten lassen sich das Ausmaß sozialer Beziehungen, emotionaler Verbundenheit sowie von Gemeinwohlorientierung innerhalb von Gruppen ablesen, die als Determinanten für sozialen Zusammenhalt angesehen werden können. So geben auch die fiktionalen Werke, die im Zuge der Corona-Krise entstehen, sogenannte Corona Fictions, Indikationen dafür, wie gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt vor allem in der Anfangsphase der Krise er-und gelebt wurde. Ebenfalls zeigen sie, dass die globale Ausnahmesituation zu kreativen Formen des Miteinanders unter den Literatur-und Kulturschaffenden geführt hat.
transcript Verlag eBooks, Feb 6, 2023
Pandemic Protagonists, 2023
In the peer-reviewed edited volume on "Pandemic Protagonists" we seek to gain insight into the ar... more In the peer-reviewed edited volume on "Pandemic Protagonists" we seek to gain insight into the array of main characters or certain groups of characters appearing in pandemic and Corona Fictions from a literary, cultural, and media studies point of view.
We especially encourage the submission of inter- and transmedia analyses as well as comparative studies of pandemic and Corona Fictions. We also welcome essays on this topic.
For further details, please consult our Call for Articles.
Ertler, Klaus-Dieter; Baudry, Samuel; Völkl, Yvonne (Hg.) (2018) Discourses on Economy in the Spe... more Ertler, Klaus-Dieter; Baudry, Samuel; Völkl, Yvonne (Hg.) (2018) Discourses on Economy in the Spectators / Discours sur l’économie dans les spectateurs. Hamburg: Dr. Kovač.
Die Informationen in der vorliegenden Broschüre wurden sorgfältig recherchiert (Redaktionsschluss... more Die Informationen in der vorliegenden Broschüre wurden sorgfältig recherchiert (Redaktionsschluss 20. Dezember 2016). Die hier erwähnten Einrichtungen, Vereine und Plattformen wurden über die Aufnahme in die Broschüre informiert. Die HerausgeberInnen übernehmen keine Haftung für die Richtigkeit, Vollständigkeit oder Aktualität der wiedergegebenen Informationen. Dies gilt ebenso für alle Webseiten und E-Mail-Adressen, auf die mittels Hyperlinks verwiesen wird.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Jun 13, 2023
The interdisciplinary conference entitled Pandemic Protagonists. Viral (Re)Actions in Pandemic an... more The interdisciplinary conference entitled Pandemic Protagonists. Viral (Re)Actions in Pandemic and Corona Fictions was held as part of the Corona Fictions project 2 from June 1 st to June 3 rd , 2023, at Graz University of Technology. It marked the culmination of a year of joint work on the recently published volume of the same title 3 , which stood at the center of the conference. Within this framework, the organising committee 4 invited all scholars whose contributions had appeared in the volume.
Edition Kulturwissenschaft, Apr 3, 2023
transcript Verlag eBooks, Dec 31, 2023
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Jan 12, 2023
The Corona Fictions Database 2 is an essential part of the research project Corona Fictions. On V... more The Corona Fictions Database 2 is an essential part of the research project Corona Fictions. On Viral Narratives in Times of Pandemics funded by the Austrian Science Fund FWF (P 34571-G). The team members are Elisabeth Hobisch, Yvonne Völkl (project leader), Julia Obermayr, Tommaso Meozzi, Albert Göschl and Daniel Milkovits. 3 As a result of the Covid-19 health crisis declared as a pandemic in early March 2020 (cf. Adhanom Ghebreyesus 2020), political and media discourse focused mainly on medical and economical solutions to thwart and contain the pandemic. The public, however, largely turned to cultural productions in order to make meaning of and to cope with this unprecedented event (cf. Obermayr/Völkl 2022a). The main purpose of the Corona Fictions project is to collect, categorize and analyze the cultural production resulting from this global pandemic, in regards to its social function and constitutive power determining how we perceive this extraordinary situation. In order to understand the composition, compilation and functioning of the Corona Fictions Database, we describe in the following the corpus entering the bibliographical database, the process of data collection and structuringincluding the specific challenges encountered in this processas well as the functionality of the database. Corona Fictions When the Covid-19 pandemic was declared, on the one hand, people started to consult existing 'pandemic fictions', meaning "literary and cultural productions, which rely strongly on the representation and functionalization of epi-and pandemics" (Research Group Pandemic Fictions 2020, 323). On the other hand, they started to produce their own narratives in diverse media to process these extraordinary experiences. Within weeks and months, authors and directorsprofessional and non professional alikecreated and distributed countless diaries, anthologies of essays and poems, web series and music videos, often online. Knowing that generally cultural productions not only document life as it is, but also determine and modify our view of the world, 4 the main objective of our open access database is to document Corona Fictions, understood as a constitutive factor of what people experience as the Covid-19 pandemic and as a future cultural heritage. Our main focus lies on the romance languages Spanish, Italian and French, but as the pandemicaccording to its natureis happening on a global scale, we are also inclined to additionally include cultural productions in other languages into our database.
Altre Modernità
In March 2020, more than 100 governments around the world imposed partial or full lockdown polici... more In March 2020, more than 100 governments around the world imposed partial or full lockdown policies prohibiting people to leave their homes except for activities deemed essential (e.g. procuring food, going to work) to reduce SARS-CoV-2 transmissions. Furthermore, authorities, media and peers encouraged people to adopt physical distancing behaviors, requesting not to touch each other and even keep a distance of at least one to two meters from one another. Cultural and literary productions—so-called Corona Fictions—represent and process the multitude of ways the population perceived and coped with the lockdown situation during the pandemic and its diverse effects. While literary texts written during confinement and published in anthologies focus on emotional states enhanced by the psychological impact of the lockdown, the narratives in films such as Norberto Ramos del Val’s ¡Ni te me acerques! (2020) focus on negotiating the process of physical distancing itself. This contribution wi...
Pensamiento, Pandemia y Big Data
En marzo de 2020, cuando la OMS declaró la pandemia de COVID-19, 1 de repente, las sociedades del... more En marzo de 2020, cuando la OMS declaró la pandemia de COVID-19, 1 de repente, las sociedades del mundo entero se encontraron en estado de emergencia. Mientras la política empezó a consultar a especialistas médicos, tales como virólogxs, epidemiólogxs y expertxs en salud pública, la gente empezó a gestionar la situación consultando producciones culturales existentes sobre situaciones similares. Hubo, por ejemplo, una lectura pública en línea de La peste (1947) de Albert Camus en Austria 2 y en las librerías se agotaron los libros relacionados con enfermedades y epidemias. A la vez, la gente se puso a escribir con el fin de documentar la situación, de consolar y entretener, 3 pero también para mejor gestionar las propias experiencias traumáticas que resultaban de la pandemia. 4 Sin embargo, debido al actual paisaje mediático, la repercusión de la situación experimentada como excepcional-hubo siempre epidemias, enfermedades
Die Labor-Metapher ist in den Digital Humanities (DH) weit verbreitet und wird aktuell verstärkt ... more Die Labor-Metapher ist in den Digital Humanities (DH) weit verbreitet und wird aktuell verstärkt im Kontext der wissenschaftssoziologischen ›laboratory studies‹ auf vielfältige Weise diskutiert. Häufig betonen DH-Labore dabei den Aspekt des wissenschaftlichen Austauschs und der Kollaboration, der in den interdisziplinären Konstellationen der DH geradezu genre-prägend ist. Darüber hinaus ist das Labor traditionell eng verknüpft mit der Funktion als Experimentierstätte. In DH-Labs werden dementsprechend geistes- und kulturwissenschaftliche Daten in Experimentalsettings aufbereitet, transformiert, kodiert und mithilfe von speziellen Instrumenten und Verfahren – also digitalen Tools und Methoden – analysiert. Die regelmäßige Reflexion des wechselseitigen Einflusses von digitalen Methoden und bestehenden Theorien sowie auch Epistemen eröffnet im DH-Lab zusätzlich die Möglichkeit erkenntnistheoretischer Versuche. Dabei fungieren DH-Labs auch als dynamische Werkstätten des Wissens. Grundle...
Sozialer Zusammenhalt in der Krise
Fiktionale Erzählungen dienen als Spiegel der Welt. Egal ob in Liebes-, Helden-oder Katastropheng... more Fiktionale Erzählungen dienen als Spiegel der Welt. Egal ob in Liebes-, Helden-oder Katastrophengeschichten, zumeist erzählen sie vom zwischenmenschlichen Miteinander. An solchen Geschichten lassen sich das Ausmaß sozialer Beziehungen, emotionaler Verbundenheit sowie von Gemeinwohlorientierung innerhalb von Gruppen ablesen, die als Determinanten für sozialen Zusammenhalt angesehen werden können. So geben auch die fiktionalen Werke, die im Zuge der Corona-Krise entstehen, sogenannte Corona Fictions, Indikationen dafür, wie gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt vor allem in der Anfangsphase der Krise er-und gelebt wurde. Ebenfalls zeigen sie, dass die globale Ausnahmesituation zu kreativen Formen des Miteinanders unter den Literatur-und Kulturschaffenden geführt hat.
transcript Verlag eBooks, Feb 6, 2023
This article examines eight anthologies (4 francophone, 4 hispanophone) conceptualized and compos... more This article examines eight anthologies (4 francophone, 4 hispanophone) conceptualized and composed during the first lockdown in the worldwide COVID-19 crisis, so-called Corona Fictions anthologies. Against the background of the classic anthological format, it describes the reasons indicated by the different editors for their anthologization endeavors, revolving around the three groups of categories of documentation and preservation, support and empowerment, as well as inspiration and preparation. Hereon, the article explores predominant topics, genres, and narrative situations in the Corona Fictions anthologies, supporting these findings with examples from the collections. Finally, it discusses what lessons about the COVID-19 crisis can be taken from them extending beyond literary studies.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Jan 12, 2023
The Corona Fictions Database 2 is an essential part of the research project Corona Fictions. On V... more The Corona Fictions Database 2 is an essential part of the research project Corona Fictions. On Viral Narratives in Times of Pandemics funded by the Austrian Science Fund FWF (P 34571-G). The team members are Elisabeth Hobisch, Yvonne Völkl (project leader), Julia Obermayr, Tommaso Meozzi, Albert Göschl and Daniel Milkovits. 3 As a result of the Covid-19 health crisis declared as a pandemic in early March 2020 (cf. Adhanom Ghebreyesus 2020), political and media discourse focused mainly on medical and economical solutions to thwart and contain the pandemic. The public, however, largely turned to cultural productions in order to make meaning of and to cope with this unprecedented event (cf. Obermayr/Völkl 2022a). The main purpose of the Corona Fictions project is to collect, categorize and analyze the cultural production resulting from this global pandemic, in regards to its social function and constitutive power determining how we perceive this extraordinary situation. In order to understand the composition, compilation and functioning of the Corona Fictions Database, we describe in the following the corpus entering the bibliographical database, the process of data collection and structuringincluding the specific challenges encountered in this processas well as the functionality of the database. Corona Fictions When the Covid-19 pandemic was declared, on the one hand, people started to consult existing 'pandemic fictions', meaning "literary and cultural productions, which rely strongly on the representation and functionalization of epi-and pandemics" (Research Group Pandemic Fictions 2020, 323). On the other hand, they started to produce their own narratives in diverse media to process these extraordinary experiences. Within weeks and months, authors and directorsprofessional and non professional alikecreated and distributed countless diaries, anthologies of essays and poems, web series and music videos, often online. Knowing that generally cultural productions not only document life as it is, but also determine and modify our view of the world, 4 the main objective of our open access database is to document Corona Fictions, understood as a constitutive factor of what people experience as the Covid-19 pandemic and as a future cultural heritage. Our main focus lies on the romance languages Spanish, Italian and French, but as the pandemicaccording to its natureis happening on a global scale, we are also inclined to additionally include cultural productions in other languages into our database.
in: Sozialer Zusammenhalt in der Krise: Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven auf Heterogenität und Kohä... more in: Sozialer Zusammenhalt in der Krise: Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven auf Heterogenität und Kohäsion moderner Gesellschaften. Ed. Barbara Ratzenböck, et al. Bielefeld: transcript, 2023. 255-279
Zenodo, 2023
The Corona Fictions Database (cf. Hobisch/Völkl/Obermayr 2021-) is an essential part of the resea... more The Corona Fictions Database (cf. Hobisch/Völkl/Obermayr 2021-) is an essential part of the research project Corona Fictions. On Viral Narratives in Times of Pandemics funded by the Austrian Science Fund FWF (P 34571-G).
In order to understand the composition, compilation and functioning of the Corona Fictions Database, in the following article we describe the corpus entering the bibliographical database, the process of data collection and structuring – including the specific challenges encountered in this process – as well as the functionality of the database.
Journal of Computational Literary Studies, 2022
together with Sanja Sarić and Martina Scholger
Monthly Quarterly, 2022
Since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, many Europeans have turned to preexisting written a... more Since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, many Europeans have turned to preexisting written and audiovisual pandemic fictions for better sense-making and as a coping strategy. Two years into the crisis, on a cultural level, numerous European countries have since actively produced their own Corona Fictions offering narratives that deal with the current pandemic. On a
societal level, these narratives early on hinted at potential ruptures in social cohesion. Cultural productions commonly function as an enabler of social cohesion, fostering mutual understanding and a feeling of togetherness, particularly when considering the participatory nature of narratives on the internet or in literary anthologies. Originating in
a research project of a much larger scope, this article explores the following questions in two francophone cultural productions of the Covid-19 pandemic. In which areas is social cohesion shaken or fractured? How is social cohesion experienced, processed, and expressed? Does the reception of Corona Fictions function as a coping strategy? How do
gender issues/inequalities aggravated by the pandemic translate into the representation of female characters in Corona Fictions?
together with: Tran, Han; Geiger, Bernhard; Völkl, Yvonne; Glatz, Christina; Scholger Martina, Sa... more together with: Tran, Han; Geiger, Bernhard; Völkl, Yvonne; Glatz, Christina; Scholger Martina, Saric Sanja; Koncar Philipp; Kern, Roman
In: Manuel Burghardt et al. (eds.) (2022) Fabrikation Von Erkenntnis: Experimente in Den Digital ... more In: Manuel Burghardt et al. (eds.) (2022) Fabrikation Von Erkenntnis: Experimente in Den Digital Humanities. Université du Luxembourg; Melusina Press.
together with: Koncar, Philipp; Geiger, Bernhard C.; Glatz, Christina; Hobisch, Elisabeth; Sarić, Sanja; Scholger, Martina; Völkl, Yvonne; Helic, Denis
In: El Argonauta español [online] 18 (2021). Publication Date: 29/01/2022.
In: Julia Pröll, Ursula Mathis-Moser (eds.) (2020) Transkulturelle Begegnungsräume? Ästhetische S... more In: Julia Pröll, Ursula Mathis-Moser (eds.) (2020) Transkulturelle Begegnungsräume? Ästhetische Strategien der Überlagerung, Pluralisierung und Simultaneität in den zeitgenössischen romanischen Literaturen. Würzburg. Königshausen & Neumann, 147-163.
Rezension: Krastev, Ivan. Ist heute schon morgen? Wie die Pandemie Europa verändern wird. Berlin:... more Rezension: Krastev, Ivan. Ist heute schon morgen? Wie die Pandemie Europa verändern wird. Berlin: Ullstein Verlag, 2020, 96pp. online. online. 2021.
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](The workshop "Corona Fictions. On Viral Narratives in Times of Pandemics" deals with the the lite... more The workshop "Corona Fictions. On Viral Narratives in Times of Pandemics" deals with the the literary and media representation of the current health crisis and its precursors in Pandemic Fiction. The different case studies, that can be geographically located in Europe and the Americas, discuss above all the experiences during the first lockdowns.
The Corona Fictions Workshop will take place online from December 9 to December 10. If you wish to attend the workshop, please fill out the registration form or write a short mail to corona.fictions[a]uni-graz.at to receive the access link and code shortly before the workshop.
https://corona-fictions.uni-graz.at/de/neuigkeiten/detail-2/article/workshop-report/, 2021
At the beginning of December 2021, the team of the Corona Fictions project organized a bilingual ... more At the beginning of December 2021, the team of the Corona Fictions project organized a bilingual two-day online workshop under the title "Corona Fictions. Workshop on Viral Narratives in Times of Pandemics" (Dec. 9-10, 2021). This workshop brought together several collaborators of the FWF-project (P 34571-G) from New Zealand, Austria, Czech Republic, Germany, France, Canada and the United States in order to discuss literary and media representations of the current health crisis and its precursors in Pandemic Fiction.
Zotero Group Library, 2021
The Corona Fictions Database is a regularly updated collection of ‘Corona Fictions’, i.e. fiction... more The Corona Fictions Database is a regularly updated collection of ‘Corona Fictions’, i.e. fictional productions emerging as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic and dealing with the pandemic itself.
The main purpose of this bibliographical database is to collect and categorize the cultural productions resulting from this global pandemic, in regards to its social function and constitutive power determining how we perceive this extraordinary situation.
Our Corona Fictions Database is available as a public Zotero group library.
A detailed database description can be consulted under: Elisabeth Hobisch, Yvonne Völkl & Julia Obermayr (2023), “Corona Fictions Database – Documentation of a Bibliographical Structuring System”, Zenodo, DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.7529753.
Conference at Graz University of Technology, Jun 1, 2023
During the first mandatory lockdowns of the Covid-19 pandemic, citizens worldwide turned to ‘pand... more During the first mandatory lockdowns of the Covid-19 pandemic, citizens worldwide turned to ‘pandemic fictions’ or started to produce their own ‘Corona Fictions’ across different media. These accounts of (previously) experienced or imagined health crises feature a great variety of protagonists and their (re)actions in response to the exceptional circumstances.
The contributions take a closer look at different pandemic protagonists in fictional narratives relating to the Covid-19 pandemic as well as in existing pandemic fictions. Hereby, they offer a diverse array of impressions into pandemic narratives from a cultural, literary, and media studies perspective from antiquity to today.