Please join us for ¿What Are Taylor Swift Studies Anyways? Episode 004 – English Studies with Valerie Smith! On this episode, we talk to Dr. Smith about her area of expertise, which are composition and rhetoric and women’s literature 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 Valerie Smith, Associate Professor of English and Chair of English at Quinnipiac University https://www.qu.edu/faculty-and-staff/valerie-smith/ In this episode we talked about the following: Taylor Swift and the Work of Songwriting, Sloan (2021) https://doi.org/10.1080/07494467.2021.1945226 You Belong with Me (2011) https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/10/10/taylor-swift-profile-you-belong-with-me Why Taylor Swift belongs on English literature degree courses (2024) https://theconversation.com/why-taylor-swift-belongs-on-english-literature-degree-courses-219660 The Linguistic Evolution of Taylor Swift (2020) https://daily.jstor.org/the-linguistic-evolution-of-taylor-swift/ Taylor Swift in Wonderland (2012) https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/taylor-swift-in-wonderland-180107/