Publications

2023

Irouschek, Laura; Hobisch, Elisabeth; Obermayr, Julia; Völkl, Yvonne (2023) “Pandemic Protagonists. Viral (Re)Actions in Pandemic and Corona Fictions. Conference Report”, Zenodo. DOI: zenodo.org/record/8028582.

Obermayr, Julia; Hobisch, Elisabeth (2023) "Uplifting Corona Fictions: No tengas miedo, Ya pasará and Andrà tutto bene (PREPRINT)", Zenodo. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7929960.
Völkl, Yvonne (2023) "Corona Fictions Anthologies. On the Compilation of Hispanophone and Francophone Corona Fictions in the First Lockdown (PREPRINT)", Zenodo. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7929932.

Völkl, Yvonne; Obermayr, Julia; Hobisch, Elisabeth (eds.) (2023) Pandemic Protagonists. Viral (Re)Actions in Pandemic and Corona Fictions. Bielefeld: transcript. ISBN: 978-3-8376-6616-8.

Völkl, Yvonne; Obermayr, Julia; Hobisch, Elisabeth (2023) “Pandemic Protagonists (Re)Claiming Agency: An Introduction”, Yvonne Völkl, Julia Obermayr and Elisabeth Hobisch (eds.) Pandemic Protagonists. Viral (Re)Actions in Pandemic and Corona Fictions. Bielefeld: transcript, 9-22. DOI: 10.14361/9783839466162-002.

Hobisch, Elisabeth (2023) “Hysterical Men and Reasoning Women? On Gender Roles and Agency in Corona Fictions”, Yvonne Völkl, Julia Obermayr and Elisabeth Hobisch (eds.) Pandemic Protagonists. Viral (Re)Actions in Pandemic and Corona Fictions. Bielefeld: transcript, 65-86. DOI: 10.14361/9783839466162-005.

Meozzi, Tommaso (2023) “Protagonisti in cerca di una nuova agency: la pandemia di Covid-19 nelle letteratura italiana”, Yvonne Völkl, Julia Obermayr and Elisabeth Hobisch (eds.) Pandemic Protagonists. Viral (Re)Actions in Pandemic and Corona Fictions. Bielefeld: transcript, 257-275. DOI: 10.14361/9783839466162-015.

Obermayr, Julia (2023) “Corona Fictions Agents: Cinematic Representations of Hopeful Pandemic Protagonists in Early Corona Fictions”, Yvonne Völkl, Julia Obermayr and Elisabeth Hobisch (eds.) Pandemic Protagonists. Viral (Re)Actions in Pandemic and Corona Fictions. Bielefeld: transcript, 277-301. DOI: 10.14361/9783839466162-016.

Völkl, Yvonne; Obermayr, Julia (2023) "Lockdown-Corona-Fictions als Seismograf für sozialen Zusammenhalt", in: Barbara Ratzenböck, Katharina Scherke, Annette Sprung and Werner Suppanz (eds.) Sozialer Zusammenhalt in der Krise. Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven auf Heterogenität und Kohäsion moderner Gesellschaften, Bielefeld: transcript, 255-279. DOI: 10.14361/9783839462065-012. https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-6206-1, 2023-02-04.

Hobisch, Elisabeth; Völkl, Yvonne; Obermayr, Julia (2023) “Corona Fictions Database – Documentation of a Bibliographical Structuring System”, Zenodo. DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.7529753.

2022

Obermayr, Julia; Völkl, Yvonne (2022) “¡Ni Te Me Acerques! (Stay Away!) Negotiating Physical Distancing in Hispanophone Corona Fictions”, Altre modernità 28, 158-174. DOI: 10.54103/2035-7680/19125.

Völkl, Yvonne; Hobisch, Elisabeth; Obermayr, Julia (2022-) "Corona Fictions Data Survey", in: LimeSurvey.org, URL: https://survey.tugraz.at/index.php/131911, 2022-08-01.

Hobisch, Elisabeth; Völkl, Yvonne; Obermayr, Julia (2022) “Narrar la pandemia. Una introducción a formas, temas y metanarrativas de las Corona Fictions”, Ana Gallego Cuiñas and José Antonio Pérez Tapias (eds.) Pensamiento, Pandemia y Big Data: El impacto sociocultural del coronavirus en el espacio iberoamericano. Berlin [u.a.]: de Gruyter, 191-211. DOI: 10.1515/9783110693928-013.

Obermayr, Julia; Völkl, Yvonne (2022) “Corona Fictions as Cultural Indicators of Social Cohesion and Resilience in the Wake of the Covid-19 Pandemic”, Momentum Quarterly (thematic issue on Gender, Diversity and Social Cohesion in Europe), 129-142. DOI: 10.15203/momentumquarterly.vol11.no1.p129-142.

2021

Hobisch, Elisabeth; Völkl, Yvonne; Obermayr, Julia (2021-) "Corona Fictions Database", in: Zotero Group Library, URL: https://www.zotero.org/groups/4814225/corona_fictions_database/library, 2022-11-15.

2020

Pandemic Fictions Research Group* (2020) „From Pandemic to Corona Fictions: Narratives in Times of Crises“. In: PhiN-Beihefte 24, 321-344. [*Yvonne Völkl, Albert Göschl, Elisabeth Hobisch, Julia Obermayr].

Lectures

2024

Völkl, Yvonne "Corona Fictions. Zur Emergenz eines transmedialen und transkulturellen Phänomens", Düsseldorf, Germany, 03.07.2024.
Völkl, Yvonne; Hobisch, Elisabeth "Corona Fictions. Schriftliche und audiovisuelle Reaktionen auf die Covid-19-Pandemie", Vienna, Austria, 03.06.2024.
Völkl, Yvonne; Hobisch, Elisabeth "Vom Sammeln literarischer und filmischer Spuren der Pandemie. Corona Fictions und die Corona Fictions Datenbank", TU Darmstadt, Germany, 14.05.2024.

Völkl, Yvonne "Réinterprétation et renégociation de l’espace privé dans les Corona Fictions", Séminaire de l’Université de la Sarre et de l’Université de Lorraine en coopération avec l’UniGR-Center for Border Studies: La peste, le choléra et la Covid-19 – Les pandémies et leurs implications pour les frontières, Saarbrücken, Germany, 14-15.03.2024.

Völkl, Yvonne: "'Les traces de la pandémie...' - Pandemische Spuren in der Quebecer Literatur", Journée d'études: L'extrême contemporain au Québec et au Canada francophone. Perspectives culturelles, littéraires, médiatiques et linguistiques, Innsbruck, Austria, 19.01.2024.

2023

Obermayr, Julia: "'You cannot confine imagination' – Contemporary Corona Fictions Embracing LGBT+ Characters", International Conference: Queer & Feminist Relationships in Contemporary Fiction of Romance Cultures, Vienna, Austria, 25-27.10.2023.

Völkl, Yvonne; Hobisch, Elisabeth: "Pandemic Protagonists – Book Presentation", International Conference: Post-Pandemic Futures. Cultural Meeting Points, Maynooth, Ireland, 05.-06.10.2023.

Obermayr, Julia: "Information Literacy for Students of Romance Studies", Course with focus on Corona Fictions from Romance-speaking countries, University of Graz, Austria, Oct. 2023-Feb. 2024.

Völkl, Yvonne: "Corona Fictions: Aufkommen, Erscheinungsformen, Potenziale", 8. KWG-Jahrestagung: Populäre Kulturen / Popular Cultures, Saarbrücken, Germany, 27.-30.09.2023.

Meozzi, Tommaso “Ibridazione di spazi nella letteratura italiana sulla pandemia di Covid-19, 38. Romanistentag, Sektion: Spielarten literarischer Raumpräsenzen in narrativen Texten vom 19.–21. Jahrhundert, Leipzig, Germany, 24.-27.09.2023.

Hobisch, Elisabeth: "Corona Fictions Database: Contagious Narratives in the Digital Realm", International Interdisciplinary Online Conference: Contagion: Between Contiguity and Community, Kraków, Poland, 24.-26.05.2023.

Obermayr, Julia/Hobisch, Elisabeth/Völkl, Yvonne: "Corona Fictions: la herencia cultural de la pandemia archivada en un banco de datos Open Access", Posterpräsentation, Hispanistentag, Graz, Austria, 22.-25.02.2023.

Obermayr, Julia/Hiergeist, Teresa (2023) "Too far away. Julia Obermayr über Corona Fictions und Nähe/Distanz in pandemischen Zeiten", Fabulari. Der Wissenschaftspodcast zu Literatur und Film in der Romania 20, https://fabulari.podigee.io/19-neue-episode, 2023-01-12.

2022

Völkl, Yvonne: "La crise sanitaire du Covid-19 et sa configuration narrative immédiate en forme d'anthologie à l'exemple du recueil québécois Récits infectés", Journées québécoises II, Český Krumlov, Czech Republic, 20.-23.10.2022.

Obermayr, Julia: "Information Literacy for Students of Romance Studies", Course with focus on Corona Fictions from Romance-speaking countries, University of Graz, Austria, Oct. 2022-Feb. 2023.

Hobisch, Elisabeth: "Narrar la Pandemia: las Ficciones de Corona", Congreso internacional COVIDTECA: Pensamiento, pandemia y Big Data en Iberoamérica, Granada, Spain, 24.-25.03.2022.

Völkl, Yvonne: "Corona Fictions Anthologies: On the Compilation of Hispanophone and Francophone Corona Fictions in the First Lockdown", Pandemic Meets Fiction Workshop, Delmenhorst, Germany, 10.-11.03.2022.

2021

Göschl, Albert: "Hygiene Discourse Between Eutopia and Dystopia in 19th Century Literature", Utopian Possibilities, Porto, Portugal, 11.12.2021.
Obermayr, Julia: "'Confinés. Égalité. Fraternité'? Corona Fictions as Cultural Indicators of Social Cohesion and Resilience in 8 Rue de l’Humanité", Corona Fictions Workshop, Graz, Austria, 09.-10.12.2021.
Göschl, Albert: "Utopianism Clean and Pure. The Interconnected Hygienic Discourse of 19th Century Science and Literature", Corona Fictions Workshop, Graz, Austria, 09.-10.12.2021.
Völkl, Yvonne: "Deconfining Pandemic Fictions!", Corona Fictions Workshop, Graz, Austria, 09.-10.12.2021.
Völkl, Yvonne: "Corona Fictions als (Auto-)Therapeutikum? Zum Potenzial der (Selbst-)Narration in der Covid-19 Pandemie", International Conference: Systemrelevant? Literatur und Arbeit in der Coronakrise, Innsbruck, Austria, 10.-11.11.2021.

Obermayr, Julia: "Aspects de la culture francophone: 'Corona Fictions', minorités et changement", Proseminar, University of Graz, Austria,Oct. 2021-Feb. 2022.

Völkl, Yvonne: "Raising Resilience or Diary Writing as a Means of Coping with the Corona Crisis", Caring and Sharing Conference. Health and Humanities in Today's World, Lisbon, Portugal, 24.06.2021.

Obermayr, Julia: "Lesbian Web Series Stirring Social Change A Methodological Approach on Female Identity Representations, Socio-Cultural Practices, and Transnational Community Building", International Virtual Workshop: Analysing Gender, Practices, Social Change, Tübingen, 14.-15.01.2021.

2020

Völkl, Yvonne: "Testimoniale Narration als kulturelle Praxis der Resilienz im Kontext der Corona-Krise." Habilitation colloquium. Graz, Austria, 18.12.2020.

Hobisch, Elisabeth; Völkl, Yvonne; Obermayr, Julia; Göschl, Albert: "Ficciones de corona. Narrativas virales en tiempos de pandemias", Conference lecture at 4° Simposio Internacional Interdisciplinario Academia en Contextos Humanos y Socio-Ambientales, UAEM, Toluca, Mexico, 22.10.2020: