Studies in Taylor Swift

In episode 7, Clio and guest Meredith Ringel-Ensley discuss sound studies in relation to "Our Song." What is the difference between sound and song? What is a soundscape? And what does any of this have to do with the Eucharist?

Meredith has a PhD in Comparative Literature and works at a writing center. If you like cats, etymology, or both, find her on Instagram at @caedmon_the_catman. 

Get in touch with comments, questions, or just to say hi at [email protected].

Music: "Happy Strummin" by Audionautix.
Cover art by Finley Doyle.

The podcast is on hiatus until June 17, at which point episodes will once again come out weekly.  I am working on a podcast for the National Humanities Center called "What is the future of AI in the humanities?" If you're interested, please check out their website and keep an eye out for the podcast in July. It has nothing to do with Taylor Swift... or does it? (It doesn't.)

In episode 7, Clio and guest Meredith Ringel-Ensley discuss sound studies in relation to "Our Song." What is the difference between sound and song? What is a soundscape? And what does any of this have to do with the Eucharist?

Meredith has a PhD in Comparative Literature and works at a writing center. If you like cats, etymology, or both, find her on Instagram at @caedmon_the_catman. 

Get in touch with comments, questions, or just to say hi at [email protected].

Music: "Happy Strummin" by Audionautix.
Cover art by Finley Doyle.

The podcast is on hiatus until June 17, at which point episodes will once again come out weekly.  I am working on a podcast for the National Humanities Center called "What is the future of AI in the humanities?" If you're interested, please check out their website and keep an eye out for the podcast in July. It has nothing to do with Taylor Swift... or does it? (It doesn't.)

In episode 6, we turn to Cleanth Brooks (The Well Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of Poetry) for guidance in reading the words of Taylor Swift.  

The next episode will come out on May 28th.

Get in touch with comments, questions, or just to say hi at [email protected]. 

Music: "Happy Strummin" by Audionautix. 
Cover art by Finley Doyle. 

In episode 6, we turn to Cleanth Brooks (The Well Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of Poetry) for guidance in reading the words of Taylor Swift.  

The next episode will come out on May 28th.

Get in touch with comments, questions, or just to say hi at [email protected]. 

Music: "Happy Strummin" by Audionautix. 
Cover art by Finley Doyle. 

Episode 5 attempts to determine whether Taylor Swift has a style and what its characteristics are with some help from Daniel Shore's Cyberformalism: Histories of Linguistic Forms in the Digital Archive and our computer overlords (Voyant at https://voyant-tools.org/). 

The next episode will come out on May 14th.

Get in touch with comments, questions, or just to say hi at [email protected]. 

Music: "Happy Strummin" by Audionautix. 
Cover art by Finley Doyle. 

Episode 5 attempts to determine whether Taylor Swift has a style and what its characteristics are with some help from Daniel Shore's Cyberformalism: Histories of Linguistic Forms in the Digital Archive and our computer overlords (Voyant at https://voyant-tools.org/). 

The next episode will come out on May 14th.

Get in touch with comments, questions, or just to say hi at [email protected]. 

Music: "Happy Strummin" by Audionautix. 
Cover art by Finley Doyle. 

Episode 4 takes on the problem of nostalgia with help from Svetlana Boym (The Future of Nostalgia), Thomas Dodman (What Nostalgia Was: War, Empire, and the Time of a Deadly Emotion), Fredric Jameson (Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism), and Susan Stewart (On Longing).

I need to take a week off, but I will be back with episode 5 on April 30th. In the meantime, consider the following questions and let me know if you come to any conclusions: Does Taylor Swift have a style? And if so, what defines it?

Get in touch with comments, questions, or just to say hi at [email protected]. 

Music: "Happy Strummin" by Audionautix. 
Cover art by Finley Doyle. 

Episode 4 takes on the problem of nostalgia with help from Svetlana Boym (The Future of Nostalgia), Thomas Dodman (What Nostalgia Was: War, Empire, and the Time of a Deadly Emotion), Fredric Jameson (Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism), and Susan Stewart (On Longing).

I need to take a week off, but I will be back with episode 5 on April 30th. In the meantime, consider the following questions and let me know if you come to any conclusions: Does Taylor Swift have a style? And if so, what defines it?

Get in touch with comments, questions, or just to say hi at [email protected]. 

Music: "Happy Strummin" by Audionautix. 
Cover art by Finley Doyle. 

Episode 3 is a reading of "cardigan" in relation to the recurring trope of the old piece of clothing in Swift's work, with reference to scholarly work on things: the objective correlative as described by TS Eliot, Jonathan Gil Harris's Untimely Matter in the Time of Shakespeare, Roland Barthes's Camera Lucida, and Bill Brown's "Thing Theory." 

Get in touch with comments, questions, or just to say hi at [email protected]. 

Music: "Happy Strummin" by Audionautix. 
Cover art by Finley Doyle. 

Episode 3 is a reading of "cardigan" in relation to the recurring trope of the old piece of clothing in Swift's work, with reference to scholarly work on things: the objective correlative as described by TS Eliot, Jonathan Gil Harris's Untimely Matter in the Time of Shakespeare, Roland Barthes's Camera Lucida, and Bill Brown's "Thing Theory." 

Get in touch with comments, questions, or just to say hi at [email protected]. 

Music: "Happy Strummin" by Audionautix. 
Cover art by Finley Doyle.