Belgian university enters new era with Taylor Swift course

Taylor Swift is the first woman to have four albums in the top 10 of the US charts simultaneously.

For Elly McCausland, an assistant professor at Ghent University, Swift’s songs offer an opportunity to explore feminism, for example through “The Man”, and the anti-hero trope through the aptly-named song “Anti-Hero” from her 2022 album, “Midnights”. McCausland knew all too well the power of the singer’s work as a “real Swiftie” herself and insisted that the course, “Literature ”, is a way to make literature “more accessible” and “not to create a Swift fan club”.

McCausland’s course uses Swift’s lyrics as a gateway into reading some of the greats of the literary canon such as William Shakespeare, Charlotte Bronte, Geoffrey Chaucer, and William Thackeray. In a 2020 conversation with Paul McCartney published by Rolling Stone during the Covid-19 pandemic, the songwriter described her love of words and how she was “reading so much more than I ever did”, including Daphne du Maurier’s “Rebecca”.

The 33-year-old also this year became the first woman to have four albums in the top 10 of the US charts at the same time.

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