Please join us for ¿What Are Taylor Swift Studies Anyways? Episode 013 – Interdisciplinary Studies with Prof. Jill Fehleison! On this episode, we talk to Dr. Fehleison about her area of expertise, Interdisciplinary Studies and history.

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Our guest today was Jill Fehleison, Professor of History and Interdisciplinary Studies as well as the Director of General Education at Quinnipiac University

https://www.qu.edu/faculty-and-staff/jill-fehleison/

In this episode we talked about the following:

“From “Mine” to “Ours”: Gendered Hierarchies of Authorship and the Limits of

Taylor Swift’s Paratextual Feminism”

https://doi.org/10.1093/ccc/tcz042

Taylor Swift, Public Historian (2020)

https://activisthistory.com/2020/08/17/taylor-swift-public-historian/

Centuries after Christine de Pizan wrote a book railing against misogyny, Taylor Swift is building her own ‘City of Ladies’ (2024)

https://theconversation.com/centuries-after-christine-de-pizan-wrote-a-book-railing-against-misogyny-taylor-swift-is-building-her-own-city-of-ladies-223506

Taylor Swift has got the 1830s all wrong (2024)

https://theconversation.com/taylor-swift-has-got-the-1830s-all-wrong-229729

Taylor Swift: why academics are studying the pop star (2024)

https://www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2024/02/15/taylor-swift-why-academics-are-studying-the-pop-star.html

Glitter & Rigor: Inside Taylor Swift’s Academic Era (2024)

https://taypedia.com/blog/inside-taylor-swifts-academic-era/

Please join us for ¿What Are Taylor Swift Studies Anyways? Episode 012 – Political Science Studies with Debra Liebowitz! On this episode, we talk to Dr. Liebowitz about her area of expertise, Political Science, and how Taylor's work and impact can be evaluated from a political perspective.

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Our guest today was Debra Liebowitz, Professor of Political Science as well as the Provost for Quinnipiac University

https://www.qu.edu/faculty-and-staff/debra-liebowitz/

https://www.qu.edu/about-quinnipiac/leadership/office-of-the-provost/provost/

In this episode we talked about the following:

“Reputation matters: parasocial attachment, narrative engagement, and the 2018 Taylor Swift political endorsement”

https://doi.org/10.1080/15456870.2019.1704758

Heartbreak, Fury & Finding Happiness  (2024)

https://www.magzter.com/stories/entertainment/People-US/HEARTBREAK-FURY-FINDING-HAPPINESS

Is Gabriel Boric a Swiftie? A short investigation (2021)

https://brutalsouth.substack.com/p/is-gabriel-boric-a-swiftie

A Taylor Swift Instagram post helped drive a surge in voter registration (2023)

https://www.npr.org/2023/09/22/1201183160/taylor-swift-instagram-voter-registration

Argentina arrastra a Taylor Swift a la campaña electoral: “Las swifties no votamos a

Milei” (2023)

https://elpais.com/argentina/2023-11-09/argentina-arrastra-a-taylor-swift-a-la-campana-electoral-las-swifties-no-votamos-a-milei.html

Lo que la Marea Verde nos ha enseñado a las mujeres latinoamericanas (2021)

https://www.nytimes.com/es/2021/11/02/espanol/opinion/aborto-legal-latinoamerica.html

Please join us for ¿What Are Taylor Swift Studies Anyways? Episode 011 – Sports Studies with Molly Yanity! On this episode, we talk to Dr. Yanity about her area of expertise, Sports Journalism, and specifically how Taylor’s relationship with Travis Kelce and her subsequent NFL attendance changed the 2023 season!

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Our guest today was Molly Yanity, Professor of Journalism, Chair of Journalism, and Director of the Graduate Program in Journalism at Quinnipiac University’s School of Communications

https://www.qu.edu/faculty-and-staff/molly-yanity/

https://www.mollyyanity.com/

In this episode we talked about the following:

“Taylor Swift and Kanye West enter the arena: celebrity politicians and the rise of frontier aesthetics”

https://doi.org/10.1080/19392397.2021.2017743

The Swift Effect: How Popstar Taylor Swift has Brought Business and Viewership to the National Football League

https://scholarworks.uark.edu/mktguht/85/?utm_source=scholarworks.uark.edu%2Fmktguht%2F85&utm_medium=PDF&utm_campaign=PDFCoverPages

The Other Football Player in Taylor Swift’s Life (2024)

https://www.wsj.com/sports/football/super-bowl-taylor-swift-travis-kelce-hawaii-3851232f

Is Taylor Swift Actually Increasing N.F.L. Ratings? (2024)

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/10/upshot/taylor-swift-nfl-ratings.html

The Reign of Taylor Swift (2023)

https://www.magzter.com/stories/entertainment/People-US/THE-REIGN-OF-TAYLOR-SWIFT

How Caitlin Clark Became The Taylor Swift Of Women's College Basketball

https://www.forbes.com/sites/karenweaver/2024/02/11/how-caitlin-clark-became-the-taylor-swift-of-womens-college-basketball/?sh=22cf88d628f5

Please join us for ¿What Are Taylor Swift Studies Anyways? Episode 010 – Conspiracy Studies with Candice Travis! On this episode, we talk to Dr. Travis about her area of expertise, Political Science and Conspiracy Studies.

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Our guest today was Candice Travis, Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science at Quinnipiac University

https://www.qu.edu/faculty-and-staff/candice-travis/

In this episode we talked about the following:

“From awkward teen girl to aryan goddess meme: Taylor Swift and the hijacking

of star texts”

https://doi.org/10.1080/19392397.2020.1704431

The Storytelling Genius of Taylor Swift’s “evermore” (2021)

https://www.uniquelyaligned.com/mag/2021/2/3/the-storytelling-genius-of-taylor-swifts-evermore

Is Taylor Swift a CIA plant? Is the NFL rigged? Have vaccines made us nuts? (2024)

https://www.tampabay.com/sports/bucs/2024/02/03/is-taylor-swift-cia-plant-is-nfl-rigged-have-vaccines-made-us-nuts/

The meaning of the hysteria over Taylor Swift (2024)

https://www.economist.com/culture/2024/02/06/the-meaning-of-the-hysteria-over-taylor-swift

No, Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce Didn’t ‘Rig’ the Super Bowl (2024)

https://www.wsj.com/us-news/taylor-swift-travis-kelce-super-bowl-false-conspiracy-theories-d3d21321?mod=article_inline

r/TaylorSwift: challenge for the sub - explain the whole

iceberg (only comment ones that haven’t been done)

https://www.reddit.com/r/TaylorSwift/comments/yml37o/challenge_for_the_sub_explain_the_whole_iceberg/

r/TaylorSwift: I remade the Taylor iceberg

https://www.reddit.com/r/TaylorSwift/comments/15ajpr3/i_remade_the_taylor_iceberg/

Please join us for ¿What Are Taylor Swift Studies Anyways? Episode 009 – Mental Health Studies with Clorinda Velez! On this episode, we talk to Dr. Velez about her area of expertise, mental health.

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Our guest today was Clorinda Velez, Professor of Psychology at Quinnipiac University

https://www.qu.edu/faculty-and-staff/clorinda-velez/

In this episode we talked about the following:

“The Return to Craft: Taylor Swift, Nostalgia, and Covid-19”

https://doi.org/10.1080/03007766.2022.2156761

Let's Talk About Taylor Swift's 'Folklore' (2020)

https://www.npr.org/2020/07/28/896193188/taylor-swift-folklore-critics-roundtable

Taylor Swift Has Rocked My Psychiatric Practice(2023)

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/17/opinion/taylor-swift-mental-health.html

Why Taylor Swift's Music Resonates in Today's Mental Health Conversations (2024)

https://www.firstsession.com/resources/taylor-swift-mental-health

Tying it All Together: Reflections on Taylor Swift’s “invisible string” (2020)

https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2020/11/12/tying-it-all-together-reflections-on-taylor-swifts-invisible-string/

How Taylor Swift, nature and writing helped me find joy in solitude (2020)

https://www.jhunewsletter.com/article/2020/11/how-taylor-swift-nature-and-writing-helped-me-find-joy-in-solitude

Please join us for ¿What Are Taylor Swift Studies Anyways? Episode 008 – Sociology Studies with Lauren Sardi! On this episode, we talk to Dr. Sardi about her area of expertise, Sociology and Women & Gender Studies, and specifically about how those fields intersect.

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Our guest today was Lauren Sardi, Professor of Sociology and Women’s & Gender Studies, as well as the Director of the Collaborative for Interdisciplinary & Integrative Studies at Quinnipiac University

https://www.qu.edu/faculty-and-staff/lauren-sardi/

In this episode we talked about the following:

“TikTok, Twitter, and Platform-Specific Technocultural Discourse in Response to Taylor Swift’s LGBTQ+ Allyship in ‘You Need to Calm Down’”

https://doi.org/10.1080/07494467.2021.1945225

Taylor Swift: The Rolling Stone Interview (2019)

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/taylor-swift-rolling-stone-interview-880794/

Taylor Swift: No Longer ‘Polite at All Costs’  (2020)

https://variety.com/2020/music/features/taylor-swift-politics-sundance-documentary-miss-americana-1203471910/

She Pop: Taylor Swift Wants To Ban Access To Your Lady Bits (2009)

https://web.archive.org/web/20230626161547/https://bitchmedia.org/post/taylor-swift-wants-to-ban-access-to-your-lady-bits

Please join us for ¿What Are Taylor Swift Studies Anyways? Episode 007 – Legal Studies with Sujata Gadkar-Wilcox! On this episode, we talk to Prof. Sujata about her area of expertise, Legal Studies.

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Our guest today was Sujata Gadkar-Wilcox, Professor of Legal Studies and Chair of Justice and Law

https://www.qu.edu/faculty-and-staff/sujata-gadkar-wilcox/

In this episode we talked about the following:

What Taylor Swift and Beyonce Teach Us About Sex and Causes, Dembroff et al (2020)

https://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/penn_law_review_online/vol169/iss1/1/

When Did You First Realize Taylor Swift Was Lying to You? (2016)

https://www.theringer.com/2016/7/12/16039240/when-did-you-first-realize-taylor-swift-was-lying-to-you-bb5a00a32b65

Taylor Swift and Kanye West’s 2016 Phone Call Leaks: Read the Full Transcript (2020)

https://variety.com/2020/music/news/taylor-swift-kanye-west-phone-call-leaks-read-full-transcript-1203541363/

Taylor Swift explains her blunt testimony during her sexual assault trial (2017)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/wp/2017/12/06/taylor-swift-explains-her-blunt-testimony-during-her-sexual-assault-trial/

Taylor Swift won her day in court. Here's what you need to know. (2017)

https://www.vox.com/culture/2017/8/11/16127214/taylor-swift-groping-trial-explained

Please join us for ¿What Are Taylor Swift Studies Anyways? Episode 006 – Business Studies with Prof. Julia Fullick-Jagiela! On this episode, we talk to Dr. Fullick-Jagiela about her area of expertise, Leadership and Management, and specifically how Taylor’s business practices have allowed her to assert her identity.

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Our guest today was Julia Fullick-Jagiela, Professor and Chair of Management at Quinnipiac University’s Lender School of Business

https://www.qu.edu/faculty-and-staff/julia-fullick-jagiela/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/juliafullick/

In this episode we talked about the following:

“Love and Business: Taylor Swift as Celebrity, Businesswoman, and Advocate”

https://doi.org/10.1080/07494467.2021.1945227

For Taylor Swift, the Future of Music Is a Love Story (2014)

https://www.gq.com/story/taylor-swift-gq-cover-story

Taylor Swift is the Music Industry  (2014)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-11-12/taylor-swift-and-big-machine-are-the-music-industry

The Power of Taylor Swift (2014)

https://time.com/magazine/us/3583115/november-24th-2014-vol-184-no-20-u-s/

The Staggering Economic Impact of Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour (2023)

https://time.com/6307420/taylor-swift-eras-tour-money-economy/

In this episode we also mentioned some of our other amazing colleagues at Quinnipiac University:

Kafui Kouakou, Assistant VP of Career Development & Experiential Learning

https://www.qu.edu/faculty-and-staff/kafui-kouakou/

Dave Chapman Bouton, Assistant Director of Career Development at the Lender School of Business

https://www.qu.edu/faculty-and-staff/david-bouton/

Lila Carney, Director of Career Development at the School of Communications

https://www.qu.edu/faculty-and-staff/lila-carney/

Kiku Jones, Professor of Business Analytics and Information Systems, and Chair of Business Analytics and Information Systems

https://www.qu.edu/faculty-and-staff/kiku-jones/

Patricia S. Kelly, Senior Instructor of Management

https://www.qu.edu/faculty-and-staff/patricia-kelly/

Please join us for ¿What Are Taylor Swift Studies Anyways? Episode 005 – Film Studies with Prof. Blythe Frank! On this episode, we talk to Prof. Frank about her area of expertise, which is development and production of music videos, film, documentaries, commercials, and film production.

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Our guest today was Blythe Frank, Assistant Professor of Film, Television and Media Arts and Director of the Cinematic Production Management Master’s Program at Quinnipiac University

https://www.qu.edu/faculty-and-staff/blythe-frank/

In this episode we talked about the following:

On good girls and woke white women: Miss Americana and the performance of

popular white womanhood, Prins (2021)

https://doi.org/10.1080/19392397.2021.2023852

How the Swiftie Cinematic Universe Came to Theaters (2023)

https://puck.news/how-the-swiftie-cinematic-universe-came-to-theaters/

How Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour Concert Film Scrambled (and Saved) the Fall Movie Season (2023)

https://variety.com/2023/film/news/how-taylor-swift-eras-tour-concert-movie-landed-amc-theaters-1235749215/

Taylor Swift’s Telltale Heart (2013)

https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2013/04/taylor-swift-cover-story

Taylor Swift’s “All Too Well” and the Weaponization of Memory (2021)

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/15/arts/music/taylor-swift-all-too-well.html

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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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/