Studies in Taylor Swift

Clio and Mireille survived grad school together, but that was just the first step. The vast archive of fanfiction awaits and they must band together to read and analyze it, one pairing at a time. Clio's PhD in English and Mireille's history with AO3 should make them perfect partners. But can they overcome their differences? Or will this impossible task drive them further apart? They can talk about pairs - but can they make one? Find out on August  10th when our first episode comes out!

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Or, if you prefer to play favorites, Mireille can be found on Twitter (https://twitter.com/pardon_mi) and TikTok (https://www.tiktok.com/@pardon_mi). Clio's other podcast, Studies in Taylor Swift,  can be found wherever you get your podcasts.

Clio/Mireille is produced by Clio Doyle and Mireille Pardon. Editing is by Clio Doyle. Cover art is by Mireille Pardon. Music is by Lesfm and SergeQuadrado. 

In episode 11, Clio and Mireille talk about more fan fiction. We read and analyze "Wolves of Swift River" by waspabi and talk about wolves, womanhood, and peeing standing up (look, contrary to popular opinion, every episode can't be about Kierkegaard). We also talk about the genre of songfic, specifically "Taylor Swift" by osprey_archer in which Steve and Bucky from the Marvel universe argue flirtatiously about Taylor Swift. Also mentioned is a Batman fanfiction, "Don't You Worry Your Pretty Little Mind" by timdrakewayne.

Also, in important news, Clio and Mireille are starting a new podcast called "Clio/Mireille: A Fanfiction Podcast" that's exclusively about fanfiction. We'll read representative works from different fandoms, starting with The Queen's Gambit!  The podcast is  out on August 10th so if you like hearing us talk about fanfiction, keep your eye out for it wherever you get your podcasts!

Mireille can be found on Twitter (https://twitter.com/pardon_mi) and TikTok (https://www.tiktok.com/@pardon_mi).

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

Music: "Happy Strummin" by Audionautix. 
Cover art by Finley Doyle.  See more of Finley's work at https://tangelofin.wordpress.com/. 

Clio close reads Taylor Swift's poem "The Trick to Letting Go."

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Music: "Happy Strummin" by Audionautix. 
Cover art by Finley Doyle. See more of Finley's work at https://tangelofin.wordpress.com/. 

Clio asks how endings work in Taylor Swift's "New Year's Day" with help from Frank Kermode's The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction and Stanley Fish's Surprised by Sin: The Reader in Paradise Lost.

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Music: "Happy Strummin" by Audionautix. 
Cover art by Finley Doyle. See more of Finley's work at https://tangelofin.wordpress.com/. 

Clio asks how endings work in Taylor Swift's "New Year's Day" with help from Frank Kermode's The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction and Stanley Fish's Surprised by Sin: The Reader in Paradise Lost.

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

Music: "Happy Strummin" by Audionautix. 
Cover art by Finley Doyle. See more of Finley's work at https://tangelofin.wordpress.com/. 

Clio explores the depiction of the mind in Taylor Swift's work and what it tells us about gender, fame, and the imagination, citing Daphne Grace in Beyond Bodies: Gender, Literature and the Enigma of Consciousness. 

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Music: "Happy Strummin" by Audionautix. 
Cover art by Finley Doyle. See more of Finley's work at https://tangelofin.wordpress.com/. 

Clio explores the depiction of the mind in Taylor Swift's work and what it tells us about gender, fame, and the imagination, citing Daphne Grace in Beyond Bodies: Gender, Literature and the Enigma of Consciousness. 

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

Music: "Happy Strummin" by Audionautix. 
Cover art by Finley Doyle. See more of Finley's work at https://tangelofin.wordpress.com/. 

Is Taylor Swift the same kind of poet as T. S. Eliot? Clio considers Andrew Lloyd Webber's and Trevor Nunn's lyrics to "Memory," T. S. Eliot's "Rhapsody on a Windy Night, " and Taylor Swift's lyrics to "Beautiful Ghosts." 

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

Music: "Happy Strummin" by Audionautix. 
Cover art by Finley Doyle. See more of Finley's work at https://tangelofin.wordpress.com/. 

Is Taylor Swift the same kind of poet as T. S. Eliot? Clio considers Andrew Lloyd Webber's and Trevor Nunn's lyrics to "Memory," T. S. Eliot's "Rhapsody on a Windy Night, " and Taylor Swift's lyrics to "Beautiful Ghosts." 

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

Music: "Happy Strummin" by Audionautix. 
Cover art by Finley Doyle. See more of Finley's work at https://tangelofin.wordpress.com/. 

After discussing the popular fan theory that the scarf in "All Too Well" symbolizes Taylor's virginity and contrasting readings of "All Too Well" with readings of Moby Dick, Clio asks what Jack Antonoff's statement that you can hear Stephen Sondheim's and James Lapine's Into the Woods in everything he does means for our understanding of his collaborations with Taylor Swift. 

Get in touch with comments, questions, or just to say hi at [email protected] and check out the podcast website at https://cliodoyle.wixsite.com/studiesintaylorswift. 

Music: "Happy Strummin" by Audionautix. 
Cover art by Finley Doyle. See more of Finley's work at https://tangelofin.wordpress.com/.