Harvard university appealed to Taylor Swift fans online to help out as teaching assistants for the course based on the singer.

Trusted

Follow

Share

SUMMARY

The Harvard University course on Taylor Swift has become extremely popular with more than 300 students signing up.
This has prompted course director Stephanie Burt to request Swifties online to send in their job applications to be teaching assistants for the course.
This news comes right after Swift’s sexuality was controversially discussed in an opinion piece in the New York Times.

Taylor Swift is America’s undisputed pop culture sensation, and she has a course in her name in Harvard to prove it.

Such is the fame and reach of the talented singer, that one of the most reputed institutes of the country formulated a complete course study on the Taylor Swift phenomenon, which is now seeing an unprecedented number of students signing up.

Taylor Swift performs in The Eras tour
With over 300 students having enrolled for the course, the university is now looking to manage the numbers and workload by appealing to interested Swifties to help out as teaching assistants.

This news comes right after the controversy New York Times article in which Swift was speculated to be a member of the LGBTQ+ community.

Taylor Swift’s Hugely Popular Harvard Course Looks For Extra Support

If you are a living personality who has already made it to the textbooks, then you are undoubtedly a legend.

Taylor Swift may be only 34 years old, but her name has already been etched in history through a reputed Harvard course being introduced in her name. The course titled English 183ts: Taylor Swift and Her World will reportedly deal with not just her music but will also trace her phenomenon as a pop culture icon.

Taylor Swift in her music video Romeo and Juliet
Expectedly, the course saw a huge number of eager Swifties making the most of the opportunity.

With over 300 students enrolling, it became evident that the course directors would have to look for more support to manage the workload.

Instructor Stephanie Burt appealed to Swift fans online through Twitter, in which she requested people to sign up as teaching assistants.

“Our Taylor Swift course at Harvard is so popular that we need additional teaching assistants. If you live in the Boston/Providence metro, love Tay, & have *qualifications or experience to teach a writing intensive college course,* my DMs are open.”

Burt also detailed the various aspects that the course will cover, including fan culture, celebrity culture, adolescence, and adulthood, among many other topics.

She believed that Taylor Swift’s huge economic impact on the country was a defining factor in her headlining a course study.

Taylor Swift Sexuality Controversy Explained

Apart from being a genre-bending artist who has made a huge impact on her fans, Taylor Swift’s music has also evoked a lot of sentiments advocating various issues, including open support towards the LGBTQ+ community.

Now, this aspect of her art that has defined her, has taken a different shade in an article in the New York Times which indicated that the Everlasting singer who identified with many of the queer values, was gay in reality. The article quoted in one segment,

“In isolation, a single dropped hairpin is perhaps meaningless or accidental, but considered together, they’re the unfurling of a ballerina bun after a long performance.

Those dropped hairpins began to appear in Ms. Swift’s artistry long before queer identity was undeniably marketable to mainstream America. They suggest to queer people that she is one of us.”

Taylor Swift’s s*xuality was questioned by the New York Times
Following this, a source close to Taylor Swift called up various aspects of the article to state that the singer and her team found the discussion about her sexuality on a public forum to be intrusive and inappropriate.

While Swift has openly advocated for the rights of the LGBTQ+ community on various occasions, the general opinion after the New York Times article was that it had taken her show of support out of context.