...Stuti Goswami sgoswami@rgu.ac Copyright © 2022 Regents of the University of Colorado 2022 The COVID-19 pandemic that has raged across the world since late 2019 is unprecedented on many grounds. Like previous pandemics, it has been widespread spatially and temporally. Like all...

...Lennard J. Davis Abstract The pandemic revealed the workings of biopower in relation to people with disabilities. In focusing on lives worth living, decisions were made based on metrics about the quality of life of various groups. Ultimately, the pandemic revealed the power structure lurking behind...

... shake hands, embrace our friends, use public transportation, sit in a coffee shop, or walk down the street without experiencing anxiety and fear. What must be acknowledged is that the pandemic is more than a medical concept. It also refers to ideological and political plagues that emerged as a result...

...Andrew L. Gilbert Abstract This essay analyzes the 2007 board game Pandemic in light of the COVID-19 global pandemic. The essay explores the connections between the reality of Pandemic and the play of COVID-19. To do this, it uses Ian Bogost’s interpretation of systems (both real and imagined...

...Jerry Zee Abstract This essay is an experiment in figuring the pandemic through its reconfigurations of Chineseness. It departs from the Sinophobic cliché that conflates race, geopolitics, and epidemiology: the “China Virus” and its cloud of cognate slurs. It considers the slogan-slur as both...

...Jason Gladstone; Nan Goodman; Karim Mattar Abstract This introduction charts the editors’ evolving understanding of the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for literary studies in the real time of the crisis. Oriented around the themes of friendship and community, the introduction articulates...

...Cynthia J. Davis cjdavis@mailbox.sc.edu Copyright © 2022 Regents of the University of Colorado 2022 Should we view the COVID-19 pandemic as an inflection point or as more of the same? Has the newly resurgent pandemic only deepened entrenched socioeconomic divisions or shone a light...

...Priscilla Wald With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, I found myself returning in my thinking, reading, writing, and teaching to the classical understanding of plagues as messages from the gods that something was out of order in the social world. The pandemic has highlighted many aspects...

...Nan Goodman nan.goodman@colorado.edu Copyright © 2022 Regents of the University of Colorado 2022 The coronavirus pandemic that began in late 2019 and that merged with other catastrophic global conditions to create a syndemic (see Cynthia J. Davis’s note) has brought changes beyond...

... . Blackett Richard J. M. The Captive’s Quest for Freedom: Fugitive Slaves, the 1850 Fugitive Slave Law, and the Politics of Slavery . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2018 . Boserup Brad , McKenney Mark , and Elkbuli Adel . “ Disproportionate Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic...

...Barbara Fuchs Abstract This essay discusses the challenges and opportunities of scholarly research during the pandemic, focusing on the author’s experience of researching and writing Theater of Lockdown: Digital and Distanced Performance in a Time of Pandemic (2021). fuchsbar@humnet.ucla.edu...

... these days, ours was small beer. The 2021 AAUP special report, COVID-19 and Academic Governance , written by an ad hoc committee chaired by myself and Mike DeCesare of Merrimack College, offers numerous chilling accounts of campuses whose administrations used the pandemic to impose unilateral austerity...

... problems to make our planet habitable for future generations. In the fall of 2020, during a global pandemic and a record-breaking year of high temperatures, catastrophic wildfires, and Atlantic hurricanes outnumbering the letters in the Greek alphabet, my class read Octavia Butler’s apocalyptic novel...

...Jan Grue jan.grue@sosgeo.uio.no Copyright © 2022 Regents of the University of Colorado 2022 What value do we accord disabled lives? The question was forced, not for the first time, early on in the pandemic. As Lennard Davis put it, “A wartime gut reaction as well as a combination...

... Press. An invited contributor to The Encyclopedia o f Plague, Pestilence, and Pandemic, Totaro's essay "Securing Sleep in Hamlet" is forthcoming from Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, and she has joined with Ernest B. Gilman to edit a collection of scholarly articles titled Literary Adaptations...

... existence. 19 When the virus became our essential social reality, the response to and the character of Romance in Marseille adapted to the new exigency, its pansexuality conscripted against the pandemic. As the Penguin Classic took on the dubious celebrity of a plague text, it was as if Romance...

... thinking about neocolonialism and neoimperialism. The day India removed Kashmir’s autonomy, on August 5, 2019, there were 217 road projects that were cleared. They went to work the next day when people were under military siege for the next two years till the pandemic hit. They cut down trees...

..., slavery, war, genocide, and disease pandemics—impact memory, and how traumatic events are remembered by victims, survivors, and descendants. Indeed, as Didier Fassin and Richard Rechtman have argued, in modern societies trauma—in its twin senses as a physical scar and metaphoric trace—is synonymous...

... , 153 – 60 . London : Routledge , 2017 . Frei Karin M. , et al. “ Was It for Walrus? Viking Age Settlement and Medieval Walrus Ivory Trade in Iceland and Greenland .” World Archaeology 47 , no. 3 ( 2015 ): 439 – 66 . Green Monica , ed. “ Pandemic Disease in the Medieval...

... International in a newly Bolshevik Russia, a global flu pandemic was still killing tens of millions, and the optimistically appointed “war to end all wars” was asked at Versailles to take a few decades off from turning large swaths of the world into a human abattoir. At the same time, Francisco Franco had...