Exploring the overlapping cultural and literary impacts of Taylor Swift, this session considers her songs, legacy, political endeavors, friendships, feuds, collaborations, and fandom especially through this year's themes of culture, power, and conflict. We ask: What might lively, critical analysis of Taylor Swift offer to cultural and literary studies?

We are interested in a variety of methodologies (fan studies, feminist studies, materialist studies, pop music studies, rhetorical analysis, literary analysis etc.) and a variety of objects (song lyrics, music videos, merchandise, cultural power, feuds, collaborators). We welcome papers that consider the lyrical, sonic, and visual experience of her vast output, the uptake of Swift in the composition classroom, as well as those papers more attuned to a study of Taylor Swift as a cult of personality.

We want to especially welcome grad students and independent scholars to submit. 

Key words: pop culture, music, fandom studies, feminism and gender, critical race theory, rhetorical genre studies.