Taylor Swift course at Harvard will use music to explore race, class and 'White Americanness'
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A new class at Harvard University will use pop star Taylor Swift's music as a platform to explore "White Americanness" and "queer subtexts" in American culture, according to The Harvard Crimson.
"Taylor Swift and Her World" will be taught by English professor Stephanie Burt, a Swift "Mastermind" who's described by the student newspaper as a "diehard Swiftie." "The syllabus states students will learn ‘how to think about White texts, Southern texts, transatlantic texts and queer subtexts.’" — The Harvard Crimson "Taylor Swift is someone who establishes complicated and changing relationships … to the idea of White Americanness." Kerry J. Byrne is a lifestyle reporter with Fox News Digital.
"We are lucky enough to be living in a time when one of our major artists is also one of the most famous people on the planet," Burt told The Crimson.