pandeemiad
Pandeemiad is a term used in contemporary literary criticism to describe a long-form narrative work that centers on a pandemic and its social, political, and cultural consequences. The coinage blends pandemic with the -iad suffix found in epic titles such as Iliad, signaling a comprehensive, multi-part account rather than a single piece. The term is not widely standardized and appears mainly in scholarly discourse that emerged in the late 2010s and early 2020s, particularly in response to COVID-19 and other public health crises.
In form, a pandeemiad can take poetry, prose, or hybrid media, often organized as an episodic sequence
Critics debate the label’s usefulness, arguing that it risks flattening diverse pandemic-themed works into a single
See also: pandemic literature; epic; documentary poetry; memory studies.