Konrad, Tatiana, and Savannah Schaufler. (ed.) Special Issue “The COVID-19 Pandemic: An Environmental Humanities Perspective,” Ecocene: Cappadocia Journal of Environmental Humanities 6, no. 2 (2025).  

This special issue of Ecocene: Cappadocia Journal of Environmental Humanities, “The COVID-19 Pandemic: An Environmental Humanities Perspective,” is grounded in the recognition that the coronavirus pandemic has changed perspectives on climate, health, and the global environment. The articles explore both local and global reverberations of the pandemic, spanning micro and macro scales. By situating the COVID-19 pandemic within the frameworks of the environmental humanities, this special issue presents a lens through which to understand the intertwined environmental and social realities of the pandemic. Through interdisciplinary and environmentally oriented research, the perspectives provided here capture the multiplicity of the COVID-19 pandemic, addressing its environmental, cultural, and sociopolitical dimensions, while simultaneously highlighting the value of thinking within and across disciplines to navigate interconnected past, present, and future landscapes.

Tatiana Konrad is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of English and American Studies, University of Vienna, Austria, the principal investigator of “Air and Environmental Health in the (Post-)COVID-19 World,” and the editor of two book series: “Environment, Health, and Well-being” (Michigan State University Press) and “Environment, Senses and Emotions” (University of Exeter Press).

Savannah Schaufler is a project assistant for “Air and Environmental Health in the (Post-)COVID-19 World” at the University of Vienna and a PhD candidate at the Doctoral School of Ecology and Evolution.