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Podcast, 47 mins

Analysing Taylor Swift with Sheffield's Tortured Poets Department

Part of Off the Shelf , Ideas Alive, 2024 Highlights
14 Nov 2024 15:00

Looking at Taylor Swift’s latest album, The Tortured Poets Department, this podcast demonstrates how literary criticism can help a better appreciation of contemporary pop culture. 

Join Dr Amber Regis, Dr Jonathan Ellis, and Dr Katherine Ebury to take a literary tour of some of Taylor Swift’s biggest hits, building on their recent Post45 journal, Tis the Damn Season: Taylor Swift’s Evermore.

Credits

The Podcast

  • Samuel Nash, Marketing and Communications Officer at the University of Sheffield
  • Dr Amber Regis, Senior Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature at the University of Sheffield
  • Dr Jonathan Ellis, Reader in American Literature at the University of Sheffield
  • Dr Katherine Ebury, Senior Lecturer in Modern Literature at the University of Sheffield

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