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Professor of Taylor Swift Class at Harvard on Why the Pop Star's Work Is Worthy of Study

The literary critic says students 'benefit from studying art they love -- art and old, art in many genres.'

But when Hahvid announced last month that it would offer such a class, many began to wonder out loud if a "millennial pop star deserves this kind of treatment at a world-class university." The hour-long class at Harvard will aim to explore Swift's many genres and the economic impact she's had in cities across the world when she arrives to perform her Eras Tour. Touting the Midnights singer's writing as "witty" and "insightful," Burt says it's incumbent upon her to also help her students better understand Swift and her "oeuvre" with the help of novels by Willa Cather and James Weldon Johnson.

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