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Analysing Taylor Swift with Sheffield’s Tortured Poets Department – Samuel Nash

Thursday 31 October 2024, 17:00

Free to Listen

Looking at Taylor Swift’s latest album, The Tortured Poets Department, this podcast demonstrates how literary criticism can help a better appreciation of contemporary pop culture. 

Join Dr Amber Regis, Dr Jonathan Ellis, and Dr Katherine Ebury to take a literary tour of some of Taylor Swift’s biggest hits, building on their recent Post45 journal, Tis the Damn Deason: Taylor Swift’s Evermore.

Ideas Alive is a series of podcasts by academics from the University of Sheffield

The event goes live on the date and time advertised in the festival programme – see the bottom of the event page for the link to the podcast

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