Following the announcement by the WHO in March 2020 of the COVID-19 pandemic, the virus seems have created a pandemic-like phenomenon in the academic world. As this issue is being produced, we are witnessing an explosion of papers, reports, workshops, and even conferences appearing with the term COVID-19 to be found somewhere in the title, abstract, or text. The pandemic has had transnational impacts, with governing measures being called for from different organizations and countries. In academia, its impact crosses disciplines. The emerging scholarship consists not only of basic research into the virus, studies of its mechanisms of spread, its treatments, and so on; it’s also rousing the humanities and social studies, with their different perspectives.1
