#  LitLab: The Personal (Pandemic) Essay 

 



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 **March 12, 2021** 

 12:30PM - 01:30PM EST 

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 **https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/80560/external_tools/53531**  



 

 



 

 Convenor(s): Cindy Zhang & Michelle Kurilla

 The past year has seen the rise of a new sub-genre: the personal pandemic essay. What are the possibilities and limitations of this "quick response" art, to borrow a phrase from *The Atlantic*? We will check out a selection of some of the best online pandemic meditations (read as many or as few as you wish) and think together about how they can help us collate and process the myriad, global dimensions of this crisis.

 The Vox, "[Twelve Moving Essays about Life During the Pandemic" (Links to an external site.)](https://www.vox.com/culture/2020/4/5/21208629/essays-life-during-coronavirus-arundhati-roy-david-byrne)

 The Nib, [*In/Vulnerable: Inequity in the Time of the Pandemic*](https://revealnews.org/invulnerable/)



 

 



 

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