[Commlist] Visual Studies: Call for COVID-19 visual essays

Visual Studies: Call for COVID-19 visual essays


Deadline for submissions December 15 2020


This is a call for visual essays focused on the global pandemic and its 
ongoing social, economic and emotional impact. 2020 has been a year of 
rapid adjustment internationally, as households around the world were 
instructed to ‘lockdown’ and to socially distance to reduce the 
transmission of the COVID-19 virus. This call aims to bring together 
contemporary visual scholarship on the pandemic in a special section of 
Visual Studies to be published in 2021.


Topics may include, but are not limited to, the visual impact of the 
pandemic in terms of organisational sociology, and its effects on 
domestic activity spaces, family life, and work; intersectional aspects 
of people’s experience of the pandemic in terms of class, race, gender, 
geographical location, etc.; the politics of mask wearing; people’s 
adoption of, or resistance to, suggested public health measures; visual 
forms of communication adopted by government authorities; and the 
circulation of Covid-19 conspiracy memes; and any visual evidence of 
unexpected or surprising responses to the Pandemic, especially those 
that suggest lasting institutional change.


Visual essays should be primarily visual and should combine image and 
text in a coherent form. All visual essays are peer reviewed. Visual 
essays should:

• contain no more than 10 images, which should be the primary focus and 
therefore should drive the narrative rather than being merely illustrative.

• contextualize the images/project within the text, addressing the who, 
when, where, what and why of the project, and should also establish the 
scholarly/intellectual significance of the project.

• be clearly and engagingly written.

• need not include footnotes or references, unless they are required by 
the narrative intent of the project.


For further information, please see Visual Studies’ aims and scope and 
instructions to authors (https://www.tandfonline.com/rvst20) 
<https://www.tandfonline.com/rvst20)> or contact Susan Hansen 
((s.hansen /at/ mdx.ac.uk)) <about:blank>.

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