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AUSTIN, Texas — This fall, students at The University of Texas at Austin will be able to learn about literary traditions and forms through a distinctly contemporary lens—the songs of Taylor Swift. Professor of English Elizabeth Scala will be teaching “The Taylor Swift Songbook” to undergraduates in the Liberal Arts Honors program.” Students in the course will study Swift’s songs alongside the traditional canon of Western literature: Shakespeare, Keats, and Frost. They’ll be asked to analyze and contextualize common practices and problems across the centuries. Students will address topics such as gender, authenticity, and the authorship of a writer’s texts, as well as the ways in which readers and fans impact how artists and writers work and produce. Scala also intends to get students thinking about the history of language and how etymologies and linguistic traditions enrich the way we read. “I want to take what Swift fans can already do at a sophisticated level, tease it out for them a bit with a different vocabulary, and then show them how, in fact, Swift draws on richer literary traditions in her songwriting, both topically but also formally in terms of how she uses references, metaphors, and clever manipulations of words,” says Scala. “I’ll be showing students that these operations and interpretive moves one makes when reading her songs are appropriate to all forms of writing.” Part of what makes Taylor Swift’s songs a good canvas for a literature course, says Scala, is that Swift is such an autobiographical and topical songwriter. Many motifs that she deploys have counterparts in literary traditions. “Poetry and storytelling emerged as literary forms sung and accompanied by music,” says Scala. “All of the interesting contexts for literature are alive in her work right now.” For Scala, a Taylor Swift course is a new way to keep formalist literary criticism alive and thriving. “I think it’s important to connect the curriculum to the present, but I’m not willing to