In episode 12, Clio is joined by Mireille Pardon, Assistant Professor of History at Berea College, to discuss fan fiction tropes, real person fiction, and the depiction of Taylor Swift in "Daylight" by GetMeDietCoke and "Under the Sun" by today. Also discussed is the chapter "Intimate Intertextuality and Performative Fragments in Media Fanfiction" by Kristina Busse in Fandom, Second Edition, edited by Jonathan Gray, Cornel Sandvoss, and C. Lee Harrington. Also check out "Tis the Damn Season: Taylor Swift's evermore," a compilation of very short articles written by academics for Post45.
Mireille can be found on Twitter (https://twitter.com/pardon_mi) and TikTok (https://www.tiktok.com/@pardon_mi).
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Music: "Happy Strummin" by Audionautix.
Cover art by Finley Doyle.