Yvonne Völkl is a literary and cultural studies scholar in the field of Romance studies. Her research focuses on 18th-century literature and press, French-Canadian migrant literature and contemporary Corona Fictions.
Julia Obermayr is a cultural studies and media scholar. In 2019 she received the 14th Scientific Award of the Austrian-Canadian Society for her research on female identities in Lesbian Web Series. She specializes in cultural studies, social change, lesbian/LGBT+ studies and diversity, minority identities, and female representations in audiovisual media - currently in Corona Fictions - mainly in Romance speaking Europe and the Americas.
Elisabeth Hobisch is a literary and cultural studies scholar in the field of Romance studies. For her PhD thesis on the epistolary form in the Spanish Spectators, she received the Award of Excellence 2016 of the Austrian Minister of Science, Investigation and Economy. Her main research interests concern 18th-century moral press in France and Spain, the digital humanities and Corona Fictions.

Frontmatter 1
Table of Contents 5
Acknowledgements 7
Pandemic Protagonists (Re)Claiming Agency: An Introduction 9
Bloody Investigations. Scientists as Ambiguous Pandemic Protagonists in the Dystopian Streaming Series La Valla and La Révolution 23
Corona Palimpsests: Pandemic Protagonists as Readers 41
Hysterical Men and Reasoning Women? On Gender Roles and Agency in Corona Fictions 65
La novela de la pandemia como una modalidad de la novela de la crisis. El caso de La madre del futbolista de Pablo García Casado 87
Mediated Vulnerabilities: Transforming Virginia Woolf's Characters in Corona Fictions 99
'¿Te importa?' Entre soledad y olvido: la representación de los ancianos en el teatro español durante la pandemia de COVID-19 117
Immunity and Community: The Role of Immune Protagonists in Saramago's Ensaio sobre a Cegueira (1995) and Roth's Nemesis (2010) 137
The Crowd as a Pandemic Character: Determinism, Entertainment and Transgression in Literature 157
'C'était quelqu'un de toute façon' : les personnages humains et non humains dans le roman animaliste Les Métamorphoses de Camille Brunel 179
The Role of Animals in Pandemic Narratives: Forewarning Disaster, Causing Outbreaks, Conferring Immunity 199
Germs as Social Protagonists: (In)visible Enemies and the Fear of Epidemic Invasion in Classical Hollywood Cinema 223
Human-Viral Hybrids as Challenge to the Outbreak Narrative and Neo-Liberal Biopolitics 239
Protagonisti in cerca di una nuova agency: la pandemia di Covid-19 nella letteratura italiana 257
Corona Fictions Agents: Cinematic Representations of Hopeful Pandemic Protagonists in Early Corona Fictions 277
Authors 303