Please join us for ¿What Are Taylor Swift Studies Anyways? Episode 004 – English Studies with Valerie Smith! On this episode, we talk to Dr. Smith about her area of expertise, which are  composition and rhetoric and women’s literature

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Created, hosted, and produced by: Ari Perez Mejia

Our guest today was Valerie Smith, Associate Professor of English and Chair of English at Quinnipiac University

https://www.qu.edu/faculty-and-staff/valerie-smith/

In this episode we talked about the following:

Taylor Swift and the Work of Songwriting, Sloan (2021)

https://doi.org/10.1080/07494467.2021.1945226

You Belong with Me (2011)

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/10/10/taylor-swift-profile-you-belong-with-me

Why Taylor Swift belongs on English literature degree courses (2024)

https://theconversation.com/why-taylor-swift-belongs-on-english-literature-degree-courses-219660

The Linguistic Evolution of Taylor Swift (2020)

https://daily.jstor.org/the-linguistic-evolution-of-taylor-swift/

Taylor Swift in Wonderland (2012)

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/taylor-swift-in-wonderland-180107/