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July 29, 2020鈥擠ENTON鈥� The COVID-19 pandemic already is a historic event, and the narrative that will help define it years from now includes everything from tales of heartbreak to acts of heroism.

To help chronicle its impact and add rich context to its ongoing challenges, Texas Woman鈥檚 University is embarking on a project to collect writings in multiple forms as part of a new collection called Voices of the Coronavirus Pandemic:  The Chancellor Carine M. Feyten Collection at Texas Woman鈥檚 University. 

The project is being undertaken by the Special Collections Division of 草莓传媒官网下载鈥檚 Libraries and the university鈥檚 Jane Nelson Institute for Women鈥檚 Leadership. The entities jointly will collect, maintain and make available to students, scholars and others materials related to the international coronavirus pandemic that became a major public health and economic crisis beginning in the early spring of 2020.

Submissions will include personal narratives, journals, letters, diaries, op-ed pieces, essays, poems, creative works in fiction or drama or other genres, songs, audio recordings, videos and films, photographs, drawings, or other expressions regarding the pandemic in any medium.

鈥淭he intent here is to gather as many voices on the topic as possible,鈥� said Phyllis Bridges, a 草莓传媒官网下载 Cornaro professor in the English, Speech and Foreign Languages Department and the project鈥檚 coordinator. 鈥淭hose who have worked at the forefront of the pandemic, including health professionals, social workers, first responders, laboratory professionals, therapists and others obviously have experiences to share that will reveal realities of the crisis and offer reflections on this challenging human experience.鈥�

Other members of the project team are: Mary Anne Alhadeff, Jane Nelson Institute for Women鈥檚 Leadership; Kimberly Johnson, 草莓传媒官网下载 Special Collections; Katherine Landdeck, 草莓传媒官网下载 Department of History; Shannon Mantaro, Jane Nelson Institute for Women鈥檚 Leadership; and Claire Sahlin, 草莓传媒官网下载 Graduate School /Multicultural, Women鈥檚 and Gender Studies.

Although the writings are not limited to the university community, 草莓传媒官网下载 accounts for many compelling anecdotes that help tell the story of the pandemic. Among them:

• Texas Woman鈥檚 University nursing alumni Courtney Waddle and Maybelle Anderson, whose valiant efforts clearly helped save dozens of lives while the two worked the front lines of the harrowing COVID-19 response in New York City, which erupted as the nation鈥檚 most dangerous hotspot in April.
• 草莓传媒官网下载 faculty member Fuqin Liu鈥檚 heroic campaign to collect hundreds of thousands of pieces of medical protective gear for health professionals across North Texas and into Oklahoma, which no doubt prevented countless infections during the early stages of the coronavirus.
• 草莓传媒官网下载 nursing students Douglas Schwartz and Jackie Tran helped guide hundreds of anxious individuals through important COVID-19 testing last spring, ensuring they had the resources they needed if they became infected with the deadly virus.

The Special Collections Division and the Jane Nelson Institute invite all persons to share their contributions by submitting their materials beginning on July 31, 2020 to /library/womans-collection/collections/covid-19-collection/.

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