¿What Are Taylor Swift Studies Anyways?
¿What Are Taylor Swift Studies Anyways?

¿What Are Taylor Swift Studies Anyways?

Quinnipiac University

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Please join us for ¿What Are Taylor Swift Studies Anyways? A podcast where we go on an academic journey to figure out what academic lenses are best suited for examining the work of Taylor Swift. Through a series of conversations with different experts, we will examine Taylor’s oeuvre from a variety of angles and scholarly approaches as we discuss and examine her output, its influences and its impact on the world. Please follow us on Instagram at @quinnipiacswiftie, where you can get a daily report of what kind of day it is at Quinnipiac University’s Mt. Carmel campus.  About the host: Ari Perez is an Associate Professor of Civil Engineering at Quinnipiac University, as well as a Fearless Stan. Since becoming a Swiftie at the tail end of the Fearless Era, he has followed Taylor’s career through multiple concert outings, observing Taylor Swift Top Friday every week, and talking about Taylor to literally everyone he meets at literally every possible opportunity. Ari believes that Taylor Swift songs are like Pokemon, books, or Real Madrid players: favourite is the descriptor of a category, not of an individual. In that category for him are I Heart ?, Fearless, You Belong With Me, The Story of Us, New Romantics, Delicate, Invisible String, The Lakes, Champagne Problems, You're Losing Me, and So Long, London.  Theme Song: Lakal by Blue Dot Sessions

Recent Episodes

Interdisciplinary Studies with Prof. Fehleison
AUG 10, 2024
Interdisciplinary Studies with Prof. Fehleison
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. Please follow us on Instagram! www.instagram.com/quinnipiacswiftie Theme song: Lakal by Blue Dot Sessions Created, hosted, and produced by: Ari Perez Mejia 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/
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Political Science Studies with Prof. & Provost Liebowitz
AUG 5, 2024
Political Science Studies with Prof. & Provost Liebowitz
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. Please follow us on Instagram! www.instagram.com/quinnipiacswiftie Theme song: Lakal by Blue Dot Sessions Created, hosted, and produced by: Ari Perez Mejia 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
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50 MIN
Sports Journalism Studies with Prof. Yanity
JUL 20, 2024
Sports Journalism Studies with Prof. Yanity
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! Please follow us on Instagram! www.instagram.com/quinnipiacswiftie Theme song: Lakal by Blue Dot Sessions Created, hosted, and produced by: Ari Perez Mejia 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
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60 MIN
Conspiracy Studies with Prof. Travis
JUL 13, 2024
Conspiracy Studies with Prof. Travis
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. Please follow us on Instagram! www.instagram.com/quinnipiacswiftie Theme song: Lakal by Blue Dot Sessions Created, hosted, and produced by: Ari Perez Mejia 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/
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58 MIN