Patricia Zimmermann, Professor of Screen Studies and Codirector of the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival, has published a series of five creative nonfiction essays on the myriad impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on personal life, film, festivals, technology, work, politics, and public health entitled “COVID Sonata in Five Parts.”
The essays were grouped into two sequences in the literary journal Ideas & Futures. The essays can be read via these links:
https://ideasandfutures.com/2020/07/12/art-literary/covid-sonata-in-five-parts/
https://ideasandfutures.com/2020/08/13/essays/covid-sonata-in-five-parts-the-second-half/
Ideas & Futures is an interdisciplinary platform that has emerged as a response to the COVID-19 crisis with a focus on re-imagining our societies beyond the pandemic. It showcases scholarly reflections, art, literary essays and expressions, cultural, social and political commentaries and analyses for international and U.S. based audiences. It believes that literary, artistic, and reflective endeavors are crucial to creating just and vital societies.
https://www.ithaca.edu/intercom/article.php/20200929012535187