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This volume offers unique, interdisciplinary perspectives by evaluating, analyzing, and interpreting how the past, the present, and potential futures may be affected by pandemic storytelling. The chapters analyze the interplay between various disciplines that explore COVID-19 narratives and study the influence of pandemics on storytelling. The authors invite you to delve into the intricate social, cultural, and political dynamics between anthropocentric societies, human nature, and their implications for an understanding of our interactions with others and environments. Most importantly, this volume initiates insightful conversations, highlighting that in times of crisis the most valuable thing we can hold on to is human connection.

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Jan Alber, Prof. (1973) is Professor of New English and American Literature at Justus Liebig University, Giessen and Past President of the ISSN. He is currently working with Alice Bell on a UKRI project on the processing of post-postmodernist fictions of the digital. Deborah de Muijnck, Dr. phil. (1988) is a postdoctoral researcher at Justus-Liebig University. Formerly a researcher at RWTH Aachen University, she was also an Affiliate at Harvard University and a Research Fellow at Graz University. She has published on cognitive narratology, post-trauma autobiographical storytelling, and in the medical humanities. Jessica Jumpertz, M.A. (1992) is a research and teaching assistant at RWTH Aachen University. She is currently completing her PhD thesis on the representation of highly intelligent female characters in nineteenth and twentieth century English literature.

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