‘Covid-19 and Me’. A Serendipitous Teaching and Learning Opportunity in a 1st Year Undergraduate Medical Anthropology Course

‘Covid-19 and Me’ was an affective learning blog post exercise assigned to 1st year undergraduate students taking a medical anthropology module at the start of academic 2020-21. We describe way in which collective analysis accounts undertaken how these were presented discussed set online face-to-face seminars. discuss whether Covid-19 indeed ‘portal’ Arundhati Roy’s use term, arguing that it written reflection anthropological their accounts, rather than virus itself, enabled ‘imagine world anew’.