Harvard will be offering a class called "Taylor Swift and Her World" next semester, which will explore her work and career as well as literature that overlaps with or speaks to it. The inbox of the professor who's teaching the course blew up with requests from around the world when news of the class came out. Reporters wanted to know if Swift would visit the course, whether her online superfans were involved, and if Harvard approved.The text also discusses how the humanities should study culture, including Taylor Swift's role in it, and why a Millennial pop star deserves this kind of treatment at a world-class university. The professor is a literary critic who writes about individual works of art and artists, and they argue that Taylor Swift does indeed merit that kind of attention from the humanities.

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