The Taylor Swift course at Harvard University is led by professor Stephanie Burt. Photo: Forbes .

“Our Taylor Swift course at Harvard University is so popular that we need more teaching assistants. If you live in Boston or the Providence metropolitan area, love Taylor Swift, and have a degree/experience teaching higher education about writing, my mailbox is always ready to receive registrations from you”.

This is an article posted by professor Stephanie Burt on social network X on January 3. Ms. Burt is a poet, literary critic, and also the person in charge of the Taylor Swift course at Harvard University.

Initially, Ms. Burt’s Taylor Swift course did not have many subscribers. But then, the number of people wanting to participate in this course increased by dozens, even up to 150 people in just a few hours, according to CBS News.

Currently, the course called Taylor Swift and Her World attracts nearly 300 registered students. That’s why Ms. Stephanie Burt had to hire more teaching assistants.

Ms. Burt set some requirements for the teaching assistant position, such as loving Taylor Swift and having experience teaching university classes. She will give priority to Harvard graduates, but graduates from other schools can still apply to be teaching assistants for this course.

After just a few days of posting the ad for a teaching assistant, Professor Burt’s post received more than 1,000 likes and nearly 500 shares. In the comments section, many people shared their profiles and personal experiences, expressing their desire to work with Ms. Burt.

As a Swiftie (the common name of Taylor Swift’s fan community), professor Stephanie Burt will let students in the course analyze Talor Swift’s compositions, research fan culture, and celebrity culture. the voices and thoughts of people of different races.

Also through this course, Ms. Burt wants learners to analyze Taylor Swift’s music, thereby making connections with famous literary works of the past.

Professor Stephanie Burt selected famous works such as The Song of the Lark by novelist Willa Cather, several poems by William Wordsworth and an academic essay about Taylor Swift by Margaret Rossman.

Course participants do not have to be Talor Swift fans. However, Professor Burt requires students to demonstrate skillful writing ability and have a certain understanding of Taylor Swift’s music as well as literary works.

Harvard University is not the only school offering a course on Taylor Switt. At the University of Texas, Austin, participants in a course about the female singer born in 1989 will learn content surrounding her use of literary devices to write music.

Meanwhile, the Taylor Swift course at the University of California, Berkeley is related to the story of entrepreneurship. Specifically, the course delves into economics, business, and sociology, as well as the singer’s impact on society as an artist.