Taylor Swift Songbook will fill a blank space at University of Texas at Austin, meaning star’s songs will be “read” alongside Chaucer, Shakespeare and other artists students will hope to know all too well by end of their studies. Taylor Swift’s songwriting is to be subject of a new literature course at a Texas University.

Course The Taylor Swift Songbook will fill a blank space in line-up at University of Texas at Austin (UTA) from this autumn.  It means pop megastar’s songs will be “read” alongside other UK and US literary giants such as Chaucer, Shakespeare, Coleridge, Keats and other artists students will hope to know all too well by end of their studies. Course will use “Songwriting of pop music icon Taylor Swift to introduce literary critical reading and research methods-basic skills for work in English literature and other humanities disciplines,” according to a description on UTA website. –Agencies

Published in The Daily National Courier, August, 27 2022

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