Radhika Jones

As for our American queen, at least for the moment: I had read about the Harvard class being taught this spring on Taylor Swift and then realized that the professor, in addition to being an influential poetry scholar and critic, was a former classmate of mine (also at Harvard). Stephanie Burt’s piece about the experience of teaching Taylor Swift and Her World at a university that had a tumultuous year, to put it mildly, reminded me that whatever else we read and see about college life, its core…