The Taylor Swift Scholarly Universe (TSSU)

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!Social Science !!Any branch of academic study or science that deals with human behaviour in its social and cultural aspects. [[Encyclopedia Britannica->https://www.britannica.com/topic/social-science]] <img src="https://schoolweb.tdsb.on.ca/portals/yorkmillsci/images/Social%20Sciences/Social_Sciences_and_Humanities_wordle.png" width="800" height="500"> The category of Social Sciences is extremely broad, but encompasses Anthropology, [[Psychology]], [[Gender Studies]], [[Celebrity Studies]], [[Cultural Studies]], [[Communication]], [[Economics]], and [[Political Science]]. You can imagine it as being relevant to anything involving human beings and the things they do. The majority of, though not all, of the articles in the Bibliography are Social Science. Therefore, here are just two, both of which are connected to other subcategories in the Bibliography. *Elder, L., Greene, S., Gulati, J., & Lizotte, M. (2025). [[Mirrorball Politics]]: How Taylor Swift Reflects America’s Partisan and Gender Divides. //Social Science Quarterly, 106//(7), e70108. https://doi.org/10.1111/ssqu.70108 *Pope, L., & Rose, K. L. (2024). “[[It’s All Just F*cking Impossible]] :” The influence of Taylor Swift on fans’ body image, disordered eating, and rejection of diet culture. //Social Science & Medicine//, 355, 117100. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2024.117100 ~*Take me back to the [[Taylor Swift Scholarly Bibliography]].*~

!Gender Studies !!An interdisciplinary academic field devoted to analysing gender identity and gendered representation. Gender studies originated in the field of women's studies, concerning women, feminism, gender, and politics. Queer studies, men's studies and transgender studies are sub-fields of Gender studies. [[Wikipedia->https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_studies]] <img src="https://www.degreequery.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/genderstudies2-1024x512.png" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;"> *Chen, S., & Shu, F. (2025). Empowering Identities: The Impact of Taylor Swift’s Celebrity Feminism on Fan Communities on Twitter. //Literature Language and Cultural Studies//, //3//(1), 1. https://doi.org/10.63313/LLCS.9092 *Ford, J., & Macrossan, P. (2024). ‘[[I work hard and I’m nice to people]]’: Taylor Swift, Miss Americana and the limits of white neoliberal feminism. //Continuum//, //38//(6), 934–946. https://doi.org/10.1080/10304312.2024.2445312 *Holder, J. (2025). Loud Mistakes: Fandom as Rhetorical Situation, Transcendent Apologia, and Taylor Swift’s Red. //Peitho: Journal of the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric//, //27//(2), 12–28. https://doi.org/10.37514/PEI-J.2025.27.2.02 *Isaksen, J. L., & Eltantawy, N. (2021). What happens when a celebrity feminist slings microaggressive shade?: Twitter and the pushback against neoliberal feminism. //Celebrity Studies//, //12//(4), 549–564. https://doi.org/10.1080/19392397.2019.1678229 *Lewis, M. (2026). [[Taylor Swift, Gender, and Feminism]]: What Do the Data Say? //The Manuscript: Journal of Taylor Swift Studies//, //1//(1). https://doi.org/10.63562/3143-3170.1002 *Maly, E. (2025). Glitter, Pink, and Politics: A Rhetorical Analysis of Taylor Swift’s Miss Americana. In //Women’s Leadership in Popular Culture// (pp. 135–150). Bloomsbury Publishing. https://www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph-detail?docid=b-9781978747203&pdfid=9781978747203.0014.pdf&tocid=b-9781978747203-chapter8 *McNutt, M. (2020). From “Mine” to “Ours”: Gendered Hierarchies of Authorship and the Limits of Taylor Swift’s Paratextual Feminism. //Communication, Culture and Critique, 13//(1), 72–91. https://doi.org/10.1093/ccc/tcz042 *Morris, A. (2025). Drew a map on your bedroom ceiling: Fandoms, nostalgic girlhood and digital bedroom cultures in the Swiftie-sphere. //Celebrity Studies, 16//(1), 77–95. https://doi.org/10.1080/19392397.2024.2338540 *Ningsih, R. P., & Sujiwa, K. (2025). The Language of Resistance: A Feminist Reading of Taylor Swift’s “The Man.” //Conference on English Language Teaching//, 191–202. *Oberst, C. (2024). “Shade Never Made Anybody Less Gay”: Taylor Swift’s Performance of Allyship and the Neoliberalization of Activism. //Popular Music and Society, 47//(5), 487–504. https://doi.org/10.1080/03007766.2024.2407998 *Ordoñez, O. (2023). “I’m Still Trying Everything to Keep You Looking at Me”: Taylor Swift and the Autotheoretical Construction of Public Selves. //Feminist Studies, 49//(2), 394–420. https://doi.org/10.1353/fem.2023.a915915 *Pope, L., & Rose, K. L. (2024). “It’s All Just F*cking Impossible:” The influence of Taylor Swift on fans’ body image, disordered eating, and rejection of diet culture. //Social Science & Medicine//, 355, 117100. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2024.117100 *Prins, A. (2022). On good girls and woke white women: Miss Americana and the performance of popular white womanhood. //Celebrity Studies, 13//(1), 102–107. https://doi.org/10.1080/19392397.2021.2023852 *Smialek, E. (2021). Who Needs to Calm Down? Taylor Swift and Rainbow Capitalism. //Contemporary Music Review, 40//(1), 99–119. https://doi.org/10.1080/07494467.2021.1956270 *Symons, K. (2026). Feminised fandom in a hypermasculine arena: A Sporty-Swiftie autoethnography. //Sport in Society, 29//(5), 1051–1064. https://doi.org/10.1080/17430437.2026.2668294 *Tong, O. (2024). Unpacking Affect in Taylor Swift’s Feminism. //Journal of International Women’s Studies, 26//(7). https://vc.bridgew.edu/jiws/vol26/iss7/6 *Zhou, K. (2026). From Intimacy to Extimacy: Reflecting Chinese Imaginaries of Marriage From Taylor Swift’s Engagement. //Sociétés, N°169//(3), 33–43. https://doi.org/10.3917/soc.169.0033 ~*Take me back to the [[Taylor Swift Scholarly Bibliography]].*~

!Mirrorball Politics: How Taylor Swift Reflects America’s Partisan and Gender Divides. !!Elder, et al., 2025 //Abstract//: //Objectives//: This study explores public opinion toward global pop star Taylor Swift as a focal point gaining insights into contemporary political and social dynamics in the United States. //Methods//: Drawing on national survey data, we investigate the intersection of partisanship, age, gender attitudes, and perceptions of Taylor Swift, a highly visible and successful woman. //Results//: Our study reaches three important conclusions: First, views on Taylor Swift, like so much else in our society, are highly polarized by party and play an independent role in reinforcing partisan identities. Second, one of the sharpest divides on Taylor Swift is between Gen Z women and men, reflecting the pronounced gender divide among young voters that played a pivotal role in the 2024 presidential election. Finally, other than partisanship, the largest determinant of attitudes toward Taylor Swift is hostile sexism, wherein advances by women are seen as a threat. This effect manifests primarily among men, especially Republican men. //Conclusion//: Like a “Mirrorball,” Swift has become a reflection of our society's deepest social and political fault lines and offers warning signs for the future of American politics. //Citation//: Elder, L., Greene, S., Gulati, J., & Lizotte, M. (2025). Mirrorball Politics: How Taylor Swift Reflects America’s Partisan and Gender Divides. //Social Science Quarterly, 106//(7), e70108. https://doi.org/10.1111/ssqu.70108 Related to [[Social Science]], [[Political Science]], [[Politics]], and [[Gender Studies]]. ~*Take me back to the [[Taylor Swift Scholarly Bibliography]].*~

!“It’s All Just F*cking Impossible:” The influence of Taylor Swift on fans’ body image, disordered eating, and rejection of diet culture !!Pope & Rose, 2024 //Abstract//: Taylor Swift is arguably one of the most popular and influential celebrities. Of particular interest is her power as a role model for millions of fans across the world. Swift has spoken openly about different cultural issues, including her struggles with disordered eating and diet culture. Thus, the purpose of this paper was to explore whether Swift's disclosures of her own eating and body image struggles influenced her fans. Over 200 TikTok and Reddit posts related to Swift and eating disorders or body image, as well as their associated comments, were qualitatively coded to examine relevant themes. Key themes included: 1) Swift as a role model for disordered eating recovery; 2) use of or identification with specific Swift songs to illustrate struggles with eating or body image; 3) continued objectification of Swift's body; and 4) conflicted reaction to a scene in Swift's video for ‘Anti-Hero’ that depicted the word ‘fat’ on a scale. Overall, Swift's disclosures of her own eating/body image struggles positively influenced her fans' relationships with their eating behaviors and body image. This analysis illustrates the positive influence celebrities can have while also highlighting the limitations of personal disclosures to impact understanding of systemic issues like anti-fat bias. //Citation//: Pope, L., & Rose, K. L. (2024). “It’s All Just F*cking Impossible:” The influence of Taylor Swift on fans’ body image, disordered eating, and rejection of diet culture. //Social Science & Medicine//, 355, 117100. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2024.117100 Related to [[Social Science]] and [[Gender Studies]]. ~*Take me back to the [[Taylor Swift Scholarly Bibliography]].*~

!‘I work hard and I’m nice to people’: Taylor Swift, Miss Americana and the limits of white neoliberal feminism. !!Ford & Macrossan, 2024 //Abstract//: Taylor Swift’s Netflix film Miss Americana is part of a recent wave of streaming documentaries about American female pop stars. The film takes a typical behind-the-scenes format, emphasizing the creative, emotional and physical labour of global pop stardom, following Swift as she rehabilitates her image after a fall from public opinion. Whiteness and neoliberalism are implicit in Swift’s celeb rity, her success and the documentary’s framing of her redemption narrative; as she states, ‘I’m only here because I work hard and I’m nice to people’. Wilson’s documentary suggests that a key element of Swift’s political awakening is her increasing awareness of the role misogyny and political conservativism play in silencing her voice, diminishing her achievements, and perpetuating homophobia. Yet the documentary and Swift are silent on how heteropatriarchy, neoliberalism and whiteness are also essential to her stardom. This paper argues that Miss Americana illuminates the limits of Swift’s neoliberal feminism, which relies on individualism, white ness and resilience culture. We use Miss Americana to consider how political progressiveness has strict limits in the contemporary star market, and how Swift’s transition from country to pop underlines the types of feminism and femininity available to women in those genres. //Citation//: Ford, J., & Macrossan, P. (2024). ‘I work hard and I’m nice to people’: Taylor Swift, Miss Americana and the limits of white neoliberal feminism. //Continuum, 38//(6), 934–946. https://doi.org/10.1080/10304312.2024.2445312 Related to [[Social Science]] and [[Politics]] ~*Take me back to the [[Taylor Swift Scholarly Bibliography]].*~

!Welcome to the [[Taylor Swift Scholarly Universe]] (TSSU)! !!//We all know who Taylor Swift is. <img src="https://images-wixmp-ed30a86b8c4ca887773594c2.wixmp.com/f/5abda80a-6562-446c-8751-8ad4876fe383/dbgwhx1-adbcf4e3-bd45-47f1-96c1-39a31ec1590e.jpg/v1/fill/w_1024,h_576,q_75,strp/taylor_swift_digital_painting_by_hokage2k69_dbgwhx1-fullview.jpg?token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJzdWIiOiJ1cm46YXBwOjdlMGQxODg5ODIyNjQzNzNhNWYwZDQxNWVhMGQyNmUwIiwiaXNzIjoidXJuOmFwcDo3ZTBkMTg4OTgyMjY0MzczYTVmMGQ0MTVlYTBkMjZlMCIsIm9iaiI6W1t7ImhlaWdodCI6Ijw9NTc2IiwicGF0aCI6Ii9mLzVhYmRhODBhLTY1NjItNDQ2Yy04NzUxLThhZDQ4NzZmZTM4My9kYmd3aHgxLWFkYmNmNGUzLWJkNDUtNDdmMS05NmMxLTM5YTMxZWMxNTkwZS5qcGciLCJ3aWR0aCI6Ijw9MTAyNCJ9XV0sImF1ZCI6WyJ1cm46c2VydmljZTppbWFnZS5vcGVyYXRpb25zIl19.1Z8GSSCeftB7--XWft86thRmX1D4J1IRzjmNRoyxQ9I" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;"> But how do we think of her?// Notice, I wrote //how//, not what. According to [[Wikipedia->https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metacognition]], //metacognition// is "an awareness of one's thought processes and an understanding of the patterns behind them. It is 'thinking about thinking'." We think about what interests us all the time. But how often do you think about //how// you think about it? Scholarly discouse, or, the way scholars "talk" to each other, is defined by the [[ACLR Framework for Information Literacy->https://www.ala.org/acrl/standards/ilframework#conversation]] as a kind of conversation. We associate scholars with people who are part of a university, like researchers and professors. We learn from them about literature and advanced maths, philosophy and chemistry, history and sociology, anthropology and writing. For undergrads, professors are just that - they teach and grade. However, scholars have another dimension, which is study. Study is done via research. Research is done about //everything//. But research about Taylor Swift? How much is there to know? As Gullion and Nainby write in their [[Letter to the Editor]] in the first issue of [[The Manuscript: Journal of Taylor Swift Studies->https://orb.binghamton.edu/jotss/]], "dismissing Swift from scholarly discourse is no longer a sustainable position." In fact, the discourse is so robust, this brand new scholarly journal was created to try to capture and dignify the growing field, which is inherently [[multidisciplinary->https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/multidisciplinary]]. As they point out in their letter, "The musicologist rarely encounters the economist, the political scientist unlikely to engage with the scholar of grief. It makes logical sense to develop a journal that brings together the disparate strains of this scholarship, like an invisible string that ties it all together. In //The Manuscript: Journal of Taylor Swift Studies//, we gather to share scholarly analysis that critically examines the Swift Universe." This class is about the scholarly world of Taylor Swift, as described by Naimby and Gullion, as represented by //The Manuscript//. However, Swift Scholarship precedes the journal for about a decade. We will explore elements of the Bibliography together. !Get started Click this link to the [[Taylor Swift Scholarly Bibliography]]. Find a list of entry ways into and through the bib. !!Explore by following your curiosity. Consider and click on links that represent the answers to these questions: # //What aspect of Taylor Swift's persona, music, or artistry do you find most interesting?// or, # //What aspect of her work brought you into awareness of her?// To find out more about your curator, come over here to [[About the Librarian]]. <3

!Celebrity influence in politics Also referred to as "celebrity politics," or "political star power," is the act of a prominent person using their fame as a platform to influence others on political issues or ideology. (Wikipedia) Politcs is connected to [[Social Science]], [[Political Science]], and [[Celebrity Studies]]. Arguably also [[Gender Studies]]. <img src="https://static01.nyt.com/images/2024/09/10/multimedia/10election-live-swift/10election-live-swift-superJumbo.jpg?quality=75&auto=webp" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;"> !!Articles in the Politics Category * Annus, I. (2025). From Aryan Goddess to Pentagon Psyop: Cultural Appropriation and Alt-right Representational Practices. //AMERICANA E-Journal of American Studies in Hungary, 21//(1), 4–13. https://doi.org/10.14232/americana.2025.1.4-13 * Driessen, S. (2020). Taylor Swift, political power, and the challenge of affect in popular music fandom. //Transformative Works and Cultures//, 32. https://doi.org/10.3983/twc.2020.1843 * Driessen, S. (2022). Campaign Problems: How Fans React to Taylor Swift’s Controversial Political Awakening. //American Behavioral Scientist, 66//(8), 1060–1074. https://doi.org/10.1177/00027642211042295 * Elder, L., Greene, S., Gulati, J., & Lizotte, M. (2025). [[Mirrorball Politics]] : How Taylor Swift Reflects America’s Partisan and Gender Divides. //Social Science Quarterly, 106//(7), e70108. https://doi.org/10.1111/ssqu.70108 * Ford, J., & Macrossan, P. (2024). ‘I work hard and I’m nice to people’: Taylor Swift, Miss Americana and the limits of white neoliberal feminism. //Continuum, 38//(6), 934–946. https://doi.org/10.1080/10304312.2024.2445312 * Jackson, D. J., Nownes, A. J., & Norton, T. (2025). Taylor Swift as a Potential Celebrity Political Endorser. //American Politics Research, 53//(1), 48–54. https://doi.org/10.1177/1532673X241269863 * Krebs, N. D. (2022). Taylor Swift and Kanye West enter the arena: Celebrity politicians and the rise of frontier aesthetics. //Celebrity Studies, 13//(1), 97–101. https://doi.org/10.1080/19392397.2021.2017743 * Maly, E. (2025). Glitter, Pink, and Politics: A Rhetorical Analysis of Taylor Swift’s Miss Americana. In //Women’s Leadership in Popular Culture// (pp. 135–150). Bloomsbury Publishing. https://www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph-detail?docid=b-9781978747203&pdfid=9781978747203.0014.pdf&tocid=b-9781978747203-chapter8 * Nai, A., Vargiu, C., & Garzia, D. (2026). You must like me for me. New experimental evidence on the interplay between musical preferences and ideological attitudes. //Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties//, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1080/17457289.2026.2676629 * Nisbett, G., & Schartel Dunn, S. (2021). Reputation matters: Parasocial attachment, narrative engagement, and the 2018 Taylor Swift political endorsement.//Atlantic Journal of Communication, 29//(1), 26–38. https://doi.org/10.1080/15456870.2019.1704758 * Prins, A. (2020). From awkward teen girl to aryan goddess meme: Taylor Swift and the hijacking of star texts. //Celebrity Studies, 11//(1), 144–148. https://doi.org/10.1080/19392397.2020.1704431 * Youngblood, R. (2025). I Knew You Were Trouble: Deepfakes, Misinformation, and the Threat to Elections. //Louisiana Law Review, 86//(1), 319–364. ~*Take me back to the [[Taylor Swift Scholarly Bibliography]].*~

!Connection to Girlhood and Teenage Identity Girlhood is the state of a being a girl. [[Wikipedia->https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girlhood]] (When you are young, they assume you know nothing.) <img src="https://bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com/pressofatlanticcity.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/9/ee/9eeb687c-320f-11ee-9bfd-770cf60d92bd/64cbc2f4aff83.image.jpg?resize=1200%2C1588" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;"> Girlhood is connected to [[Gender Studies]] and, in the case of Taylor Swift, [[Fan Studies]]. !!Articles in the Connection to Girlhood and Teenage Identity Category *Chittenden, T. (2013). In My Rearview Mirror: Female teens’ prospective remembering of future romantic relationships through the lyrics in Taylor Swift songs. //Journal of Children and Media//, 7(2), 186–200. https://doi.org/10.1080/17482798.2012.673500 *Hammond, A. B., Johnson, S. K., Weiner, M. B., & Jacqueline V. Lerner. (2024). From Taylor Swift to MLK: Understanding adolescents’ famous character role models. //Journal of Moral Education//, 53(1), 157–175. https://doi.org/10.1080/03057240.2022.2041409 * Morris, A. (2025). Drew a map on your bedroom ceiling: Fandoms, nostalgic girlhood and digital bedroom cultures in the Swiftie-sphere. //Celebrity Studies//, 16(1), 77–95. https://doi.org/10.1080/19392397.2024.2338540 *Prins, A. (2022). [[On good girls and woke white women: Miss Americana and the performance of popular white womanhood]]. //Celebrity Studies//, 13(1), 102–107. https://doi.org/10.1080/19392397.2021.2023852 ~*Take me back to the [[Taylor Swift Scholarly Bibliography]].*~

!LGBTQIA Connections !!The studies cited below explore Taylor Swift in the realm of LGBTQIA issues, exploring her work through a queer lens, uncovering the Gaylor fandom, and examining her allyship to the community. Articles that study people and their behavior will be found in [[Social Science]]. Articles that study gender and its role in human behavior can be found in [[Gender Studies]]. <img src="https://bobbyberk.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Bobby-Berk_Taylor-Swift_You-Need-To-Calm-Down-Music-Video_BTS_table-tea.jpg" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;"> !!Articles in the LGBTQIA Connection Category *Avdeeff, M. K. (2021). TikTok, Twitter, and Platform-Specific Technocultural Discourse in Response to Taylor Swift’s LGBTQ+ Allyship in ‘You Need to Calm Down.’ //Contemporary Music Review, 40//(1), 78–98. https://doi.org/10.1080/07494467.2021.1945225 *Dajches, L., & Stevens Aubrey, J. (2023). Queer folklore: Examining the influence of fandom on sexual identity development and fluidity acceptance among Taylor Swift fans. //Psychology of Popular Media, 12//(3), 255–267. https://doi.org/10.1037/ppm0000408 *Donovan, B. (2024). [[The joy of gaylor: Sexual identity in the Taylor Swift fandom]]. //Journal of Fandom Studies, 12//(2), 115–134. https://doi.org/10.1386/jfs_00095_1 *Eadon, Y. M. (2024). “You Could Hear a Hair Pin Drop”: Queer Utopianism and Informal Knowledge Production in the Gaylor Closeting Conspiracy Theory. //Social Media + Society, 10//(2), 20563051241242797. https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051241242797 *Oberst, C. (2024). “Shade Never Made Anybody Less Gay”: Taylor Swift’s Performance of Allyship and the Neoliberalization of Activism. //Popular Music and Society, 47//(5), 487–504. https://doi.org/10.1080/03007766.2024.2407998 *Smialek, E. (2021). Who Needs to Calm Down? Taylor Swift and Rainbow Capitalism. //Contemporary Music Review, 40//(1), 99–119. https://doi.org/10.1080/07494467.2021.1956270 ~*Take me back to the [[Taylor Swift Scholarly Bibliography]].*~

!Songwriting !!Songwriting, or the effort of making a song, is perhaps Swift's most important tool, and the one she is proudest of and most connected to. Surprisingly little research has been created about her songwriting, but here are a few (I particularly recommend [[Taylor Swift and the Work of Songwriting]]). <img src="https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/5D76/production/_127162932_dsjsztkuiaihtjd-1.jpg" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;"> Songwriting is connected to the field of [[Music Theory and Composition]]. *Cai, Z. (2025). A Millennium of Musical Storytelling: From Tang Dynasty Poetic-Melodic Traditions to Bob Dylan and Taylor Swift. In P. P.-Y. Ng, I. A. Khan, P. S. Borah, & N. Zakuan (Eds.), //Proceedings of the 2025 10th International Conference on Modern Management, Education and Social Sciences// (MMET 2025) (Vol. 961, pp. 355–365). Atlantis Press SARL. https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-38476-475-4_42 *Clipperton, J., & Bitsikokos, L. (2025). You do not get to tell me about sad: Swiftian Saudade in Taylor Swift’s lyrics. //Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts//. https://doi.org/10.1037/aca0000810 *Harrison, C., & Ringrow, H. (2022). Disnarration and the performance of storytelling in Taylor Swift’s folklore and evermore. //International Journal of Literary Linguistics, 11//(1). https://doi.org/10.15462/ijll.v11i1.140 *Jakobi, S. (2026). “It’s Me, Hi”—Taylor Swift’s Confessional Songwriting as Transmedia Meta-Autobiographies. //Literature, 6//(2), 8. https://doi.org/10.3390/literature6020008 *Sloan, N. (2021). [[Taylor Swift and the Work of Songwriting]]. //Contemporary Music Review, 40//(1), 11–26. https://doi.org/10.1080/07494467.2021.1945226 ~*Take me back to the [[Taylor Swift Scholarly Bibliography]].*~

!Taylor Swift and the Work of Songwriting. !!Sloan, 2021 //Abstract//: In her 2016 speech accepting the Grammy Award for Album of the Year for 1989, Taylor Swift gave a message directed at any young women who were watching: ‘focus on the work’. Taking Swift’s emphasis on ‘the work’ as a guide, this article surveys Swift’s changing compositional techniques and her reception as a songwriter over the course of her career. Though one of the most-discussed figures in popular culture, there exists little analysis of the musical works that remain the fulcrum of Swift’s artistry and ‘artist-brand’. Gender and genre bias have clouded perception of Swift’s particular skills and techniques. To begin an analysis of the work of Taylor Swift, this article traces her stylistic development through a series of song case studies drawn from successive albums, her collaborations with co-writers and producers, and the 2016 hit by Calvin Harris and Rihanna that was co-written by Swift under a pseudonym, ‘This is What You Came For’. By listening closely to her recorded output, we can hear how a modern songwriter responds to commercial pressures to evolve while retaining a coherent musical identity—and how Swift’s respect for ‘the work’ might motivate her activism around issues of ownership and authorship in the music industry. Citation: Sloan, N. (2021). Taylor Swift and the Work of Songwriting. //Contemporary Music Review, 40//(1), 11–26. https://doi.org/10.1080/07494467.2021.1945226 Related to [[Music Theory and Composition]] and [[Songwriting]]. ~*Take me back to the [[Taylor Swift Scholarly Bibliography]].*~

!Fan studies An academic discipline that analyses fans, fandoms, fan cultures and fan activities, including fanworks. It is an interdisciplinary field located at the intersection of the humanities and social sciences, which emerged in the early 1990s as a separate discipline, and draws particularly on audience studies and cultural studies. ([[Wikipedia->https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan_studies]]) According (also!) to Wikipedia, a "[[fan->https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan_(person)]], sometimes also termed an aficionado or enthusiast, is a person who exhibits strong interest or admiration for something or somebody, such as a celebrity, a sport, a sports team, a genre, a politician, a book, a television show, a movie, a video game or an entertainer. Collectively, the fans of a particular object or person constitute its fanbase or fandom. They may show their enthusiasm in a variety of ways, such as by promoting the object of their interest, being members of a related fan club, holding or participating in fan conventions or writing fan mail. They may also engage in creative activities ("fan labor") such as creating fanzines, writing fan fiction, making memes, drawing fan art, or developing fan games. Some excessively avid fans are called 'stan'." Fan Studies is connected to [[Celebrity Studies]] and [[Social Science]]. <img src="https://wpcdn.us-east-1.vip.tn-cloud.net/www.pittsburghmagazine.com/content/uploads/2023/06/t/y/featureimage.jpg?etag=%22648f7732-40e53%22" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;"> !!Articles in the Fan Studies category: * Asuncion, A., Nairn, A., & Trelease, R. (2026). The Swift Shift – promotional marketing (Taylor’s version): How social media and fan engagement shape album release strategies. //Australasian Journal of Popular Culture, 15//(1), 47–69. https://doi.org/10.1386/ajpc_00128_1 *Dajches, L., Foerster, T. A., Barbati, J. L., & Gall Myrick, J. (2026). “Don’t blame me”: Testing the effects of Taylor Swift fan identity on emerging adults’ moral reasoning strategies and environmental cognitions. //Psychology of Popular Media//. https://doi.org/10.1037/ppm0000673 *Donovan, B. (2024). [[The joy of gaylor: Sexual identity in the Taylor Swift fandom]]. Journal of Fandom Studies, The, 12(2), 115–134. https://doi.org/10.1386/jfs_00095_1 *Driessen, S. (2020). Taylor Swift, political power, and the challenge of affect in popular music fandom. //Transformative Works and Cultures//, 32. https://doi.org/10.3983/twc.2020.1843 *Driessen, S. (2022). Campaign Problems: How Fans React to Taylor Swift’s Controversial Political Awakening. //American Behavioral Scientist, 66//(8), 1060–1074. https://doi.org/10.1177/00027642211042295 *Driessen, S. (2026). Invisible string(s): Exploring conspiratorial participatory practices among Swifties. //Popular Communication//, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/15405702.2026.2617543 *Fogarty, M., & Arnold, G. (2021). Are You Ready for It? Re-Evaluating Taylor Swift. //Contemporary Music Review, 40//(1), 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1080/07494467.2021.1976586 *Galeon, K. A. S. (2026). Rituals, Culture, and the Swiftie Self: An Autoethnography of The Life of a Showgirl Release. The Manuscript: Journal of Taylor Swift Studies, 1(1). https://doi.org/10.63562/3143-3170.1003 *Galloway, K. (2023). Podcasting Taylor. //Journal of Popular Music Studies, 35//(4), 91–110. https://doi.org/10.1525/jpms.2023.35.4.91 *Ganito, C., Ferreira, C., Taveres, P., & Simao, J. (n.d.). The eras of our lives: Hauntology, fabricated nostalgia, and the paradox of memory in the digital age. //Music, Sound and Memory: A Transdisciplinary Conference in Music, Sound, and Literary Studies//, International Conference. Retrieved https://ciencia.ucp.pt/en/publications/the-eras-of-our-lives-hauntology-fabricated-nostalgia-and-the-par/ *Li, W., Qian, T. Y., Gong, H., & Xu, C. (2026). Romantic Relationships, Athlete Branding, and Social Media Dynamics: Examining the National Football League’s Instagram Posts and Fan Responses to Taylor Swift Content. Journal of Sport Management, 40(3), 224–239. https://doi.org/10.1123/jsm.2025-0076 *Morris, A. (2025). Drew a map on your bedroom ceiling: Fandoms, nostalgic girlhood and digital bedroom cultures in the Swiftie-sphere. //Celebrity Studies, 16//(1), 77–95. https://doi.org/10.1080/19392397.2024.2338540 *Morris, A. (2026). [[The 1950s shit: Pregnancy, the far-right and a ‘Tayvis’ baby]]. //Celebrity Studies//. https://doi.org/10.1080/19392397.2026.2631401 *Obenza, Brandon Nacu & Teringtering Jr., Rolando B. (2024). Echoes Of Emotion: A Stylistic Analysis of Taylor Swift’s Reputation Album and Its Reception Among “Swifties". //American International Journal of Education and Linguistics Research//, 7(1), 12–25. https://doi.org/10.46545/aijelr.v7i1.342 *Ordoñez, O. (2023). “I’m Still Trying Everything to Keep You Looking at Me”: Taylor Swift and the Autotheoretical Construction of Public Selves. //Feminist Studies, 49//(2), 394–420. https://doi.org/10.1353/fem.2023.a915915 *Pan, S. N. (2026). Identification of Factors Influencing Fan Engagement and Fan Perception on Continuance Intention Among Taylor Swifts Myanmar Fans. //Journal of Interdisciplinary Research, 11//, 112. https://doi.org/10.14456/AU-EJIR.2026.1 *Rossman, M. (2022). Taylor Swift, remediating the self, and nostalgic girlhood in tween music fandom. //Transformative Works and Cultures//, 38. https://doi.org/10.3983/twc.2022.2287 *Symons, K. (2026). [[Feminised fandom in a hypermasculine arena: A Sporty-Swiftie autoethnography]]. //Sport in Society, 29//(5), 1051–1064. https://doi.org/10.1080/17430437.2026.2668294 *Whiteside, A. (2024). Fandom and argumentation in the social media era: Taylor Swift fans and the rhetoric of Easter egg hunts. //Argumentation and Advocacy, 60//(2), 119–136. https://doi.org/10.1080/10511431.2024.2432172 ~*Take me back to the [[Taylor Swift Scholarly Bibliography]].*~

!Celebrity Studies !!Coming from the journal of the same name, //Celebrity Studies//, this emerging discipline "focuses on the critical exploration of celebrity, stardom and fame. It seeks to make sense of celebrity by drawing upon a range of (inter)disciplinary approaches, media forms, historical periods and national contexts.... address[ing] key issues in the production, circulation and consumption of fame, and its manifestations in both contemporary and historical contexts. [[Celebrity Studies ->https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/rcel20]] <img src="https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/2023-09/16/20/asset/15b136ed5245/sub-buzz-1827-1694897774-1.jpg" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;"> *Asuncion, A. R. (2026). Platform Affordances, Produsage, and the Attention Economy: From Red (Taylor’s Version) to The Life of a Showgirl. //The Manuscript: Journal of Taylor Swift Studies, 1//(1). https://doi.org/10.63562/3143-3170.1015 *Krebs, N. D. (2022). Taylor Swift and Kanye West enter the arena: Celebrity politicians and the rise of frontier aesthetics. //Celebrity Studies, 13//(1), 97–101. https://doi.org/10.1080/19392397.2021.2017743 *Oberst, C. (2024). “Shade Never Made Anybody Less Gay”: Taylor Swift’s Performance of Allyship and the Neoliberalization of Activism. //Popular Music and Society, 47//(5), 487–504. https://doi.org/10.1080/03007766.2024.2407998 *Ordoñez, O. (2023). “I’m Still Trying Everything to Keep You Looking at Me”: Taylor Swift and the Autotheoretical Construction of Public Selves. //Feminist Studies, 49//(2), 394–420. https://doi.org/10.1353/fem.2023.a915915 *Prins, A. (2020). From awkward teen girl to aryan goddess meme: Taylor Swift and the hijacking of star texts. //Celebrity Studies, 11//(1), 144–148. https://doi.org/10.1080/19392397.2020.1704431 *Prins, A. (2022). [[On good girls and woke white women: Miss Americana and the performance of popular white womanhood]]. //Celebrity Studies, 13//(1), 102–107. https://doi.org/10.1080/19392397.2021.2023852 *Théberge, P. (2021). Love and Business: Taylor Swift as Celebrity, Businesswoman, and Advocate. //Contemporary Music Review, 40//(1), 41–59. https://doi.org/10.1080/07494467.2021.1945227 *Wilkinson, M. (2019). ‘Taylor Swift: The hardest working, zaniest girl in show business….’ //Celebrity Studies, 10//(3), 441–444. https://doi.org/10.1080/19392397.2019.1630160 *Zhou, K. (2026). From Intimacy to Extimacy: Reflecting Chinese Imaginaries of Marriage From Taylor Swift’s Engagement. //Sociétés, N°169//(3), 33–43. https://doi.org/10.3917/soc.169.0033 ~*Take me back to the [[Taylor Swift Scholarly Bibliography]].*~

!Literary Allusions !!Dylan Thomas, Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, Sylvia Plath, //Alice in Wonderland//, and so on. The network of literary allusions from Taylor Swift's twelve albums is wide and always being interpreted. <img src="https://i.tribune.com.pk/media/images/DiljitAliET-(2)1681803272-0/DiljitAliET-(2)1681803272-0.png" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;"> !!Articles in the Literary Allusions category: *Flettrich, L. (2024). [[Taylor Swift, Pop Music, and the Creation of Modern Folklore]]. //QuaesitUM, 11//(1). https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/quaesitum/vol11/iss1/2 *Jakobi, S. (2026). “It’s Me, Hi”—Taylor Swift’s Confessional Songwriting as Transmedia Meta-Autobiographies. //Literature, 6//(2), 8. https://doi.org/10.3390/literature6020008 *Rogers, A. B. (2026). The Monster on the Hill: “Anti-Hero” and its Connection to Frankenstein. //The Manuscript: Journal of Taylor Swift Studies, 1//(1). https://doi.org/10.63562/3143-3170.1016 *Sánchez Cabrera, A. (2025). The ethics of neoaustenism: From Jane Austen to Taylor Swift in the age of metamodernism. //International Journal of English Studies, 25//(2), 121–135. https://doi.org/10.6018/ijes.669271 *Sen, I. (2026). Reading the Frame: “Fortnight” and The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. //The Manuscript: Journal of Taylor Swift Studies, 1//(1). https://doi.org/10.63562/3143-3170.1004 Tontiplaphol, B. W., & Klimchynskaya, A. (Eds.). (2024). //The literary Taylor Swift: Songwriting and intertextuality//. Bloomsbury Academic. ~*Take me back to the [[Taylor Swift Scholarly Bibliography]].*~

!Feminism Feminism holds the position that modern societies are patriarchal—they prioritize the male point of view—and that women are treated unjustly in these societies. (Source: [[Wikipedia->https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feminism]] <img src="https://www.yourtango.com/sites/default/files/image_blog/why-taylor-swift-fans-use-weaponized-feminism-dangerous.png" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;"> Feminism is related to [[Gender Studies]], [[Politics]], [[Communication]], and [[Social Science]] -- actually, feminism is related to everything. !!Articles in the Feminism Category *Chen, S., & Shu, F. (2025). Empowering Identities: The Impact of Taylor Swift’s Celebrity Feminism on Fan Communities on Twitter. //Literature Language and Cultural Studies, 3//(1), 1. https://doi.org/10.63313/LLCS.9092 *Ford, J., & Macrossan, P. (2024). ‘[[I work hard and I’m nice to people]]’: Taylor Swift, Miss Americana and the limits of white neoliberal feminism. //Continuum, 38//(6), 934–946. https://doi.org/10.1080/10304312.2024.2445312 *Holder, J. (2025). Loud Mistakes: Fandom as Rhetorical Situation, Transcendent Apologia, and Taylor Swift’s Red. //Peitho: Journal of the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric, 27//(2), 12–28. https://doi.org/10.37514/PEI-J.2025.27.2.02 *Isaksen, J. L., & Eltantawy, N. (2021). What happens when a celebrity feminist slings microaggressive shade?: Twitter and the pushback against neoliberal feminism. //Celebrity Studies, 12//(4), 549–564. https://doi.org/10.1080/19392397.2019.1678229 *Lewis, M. (2026). [[Taylor Swift, Gender, and Feminism]]: What Do the Data Say? //The Manuscript: Journal of Taylor Swift Studies, 1//(1). https://doi.org/10.63562/3143-3170.1002 *Maly, E. (2025). Glitter, Pink, and Politics: A Rhetorical Analysis of Taylor Swift’s Miss Americana. In //Women’s Leadership in Popular Culture// (pp. 135–150). Bloomsbury Publishing. https://www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph-detail?docid=b-9781978747203&pdfid=9781978747203.0014.pdf&tocid=b-9781978747203-chapter8 *McNutt, M. (2020). From “Mine” to “Ours”: Gendered Hierarchies of Authorship and the Limits of Taylor Swift’s Paratextual Feminism. //Communication, Culture and Critique, 13//(1), 72–91. https://doi.org/10.1093/ccc/tcz042 *Morris, A. (2025). Drew a map on your bedroom ceiling: Fandoms, nostalgic girlhood and digital bedroom cultures in the Swiftie-sphere. //Celebrity Studies, 16//(1), 77–95. https://doi.org/10.1080/19392397.2024.2338540 *Ningsih, R. P., & Sujiwa, K. (2025). The Language of Resistance: A Feminist Reading of Taylor Swift’s “The Man.” //Conference on English Language Teaching//, 191–202. *Ordoñez, O. (2023). “I’m Still Trying Everything to Keep You Looking at Me”: Taylor Swift and the Autotheoretical Construction of Public Selves. //Feminist Studies, 49//(2), 394–420. https://doi.org/10.1353/fem.2023.a915915 *Pope, L., & Rose, K. L. (2024). “[[It’s All Just F*cking Impossible]]:” The influence of Taylor Swift on fans’ body image, disordered eating, and rejection of diet culture. //Social Science & Medicine//, 355, 117100. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2024.117100 *Prins, A. (2022). [[On good girls and woke white women: Miss Americana and the performance of popular white womanhood]]. //Celebrity Studies, 13//(1), 102–107. https://doi.org/10.1080/19392397.2021.2023852 *Symons, K. (2026). Feminised fandom in a hypermasculine arena: A Sporty-Swiftie autoethnography. //Sport in Society, 29//(5), 1051–1064. https://doi.org/10.1080/17430437.2026.2668294 *Tong, O. (2024). Unpacking Affect in Taylor Swift’s Feminism. //Journal of International Women’s Studies, 26//(7). https://vc.bridgew.edu/jiws/vol26/iss7/6 *Zhou, K. (2026). From Intimacy to Extimacy: Reflecting Chinese Imaginaries of Marriage From Taylor Swift’s Engagement. //Sociétés//, N°169(3), 33–43. https://doi.org/10.3917/soc.169.0033 ~*Take me back to the [[Taylor Swift Scholarly Bibliography]].*~

!Racial Dynamics In the United States, racial inequality refers to the social inequality and advantages and disparities that affect different races. These can also be seen as a result of historic oppression, inequality of inheritance, or racism and prejudice, de jure and de facto segregation,[1] specifically against racial minority groups.[2] [[Wikipedia->https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_inequality_in_the_United_States]] <img src="https://berkeleybeacon.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Untitled_Artwork-1.jpg" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;"> Regarding Swift, several articles have been published about how she represents white women, her notorious feud with rapper Kanye West, and the degree to which she does or does not use her celebrity power and influence to pursue activism and equality. Racial Dynamics are related to [[Social Science]], [[Cultural Studies]], [[Communication]], [[Psychology]], and [[Political Science]] !!Articles in the Racial Dynamics category: *Arnold, G. (2021). I Don’t Give a Damn About Your Bad Reputation: Taylor Swift, Beyoncé Knowles, and Performance. //Contemporary Music Review, 40//(1), 27–40. https://doi.org/10.1080/07494467.2021.1945224 *Cullen, S. (2016). [[The Innocent and the Runaway: Kanye West, Taylor Swift, and the Cultural Politics of Racial Melodrama.]] //Journal of Popular Music Studies, 28//(1), 33–50. https://doi.org/10.1111/jpms.12160 *Dubrofsky, R. E. (2016). A Vernacular of Surveillance: Taylor Swift and Miley Cyrus Perform White Authenticity. //Surveillance & Society, 14//(2), 184–196. https://doi.org/10.24908/ss.v14i2.6022 ~*Take me back to the [[Taylor Swift Scholarly Bibliography]].*~

!The Innocent and the Runaway: Kanye West, Taylor Swift, and the Cultural Politics of Racial Melodrama !!Cullen, 2016 //No Abstract, librarian description//: Cullens deconstructs and contextualizes Kanye West's infamous 2009 interruption of Taylor Swift's MTV Video Music Award acceptance for Best Female Music Video, and everything that happened after. <img src="https://cdn.britannica.com/93/132893-050-22EC5127/Kanye-West-Taylor-Swift-video-acceptance-speech-Sept-13-2009.jpg?quality=75&auto=webp" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;"> [[Kanye West interrupts Taylor Swift during VMA Awards clip from Miss American->https://youtu.be/G5iEniUb33w?si=En1n5R9rluNae2kS]] *Cullen, S. (2016). The Innocent and the Runaway: Kanye West, Taylor Swift, and the Cultural Politics of Racial Melodrama. //Journal of Popular Music Studies, 28//(1), 33–50. https://doi.org/10.1111/jpms.12160 This article is connected to [[Racial Dynamics]], [[Literary Studies]], and [[Social Science]]. ~*Take me back to the [[Taylor Swift Scholarly Bibliography]].*~

! Football Swift's relationship, engagement to, and marraige to Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce has aligned Swift's star text with football. Fans may love or hate it, but Taylor and football will forever be linked. <img src="https://stylecaster.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/taylor-swift-football.jpg" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;"> !!Articles in the Football category: *Li, W., Qian, T. Y., Gong, H., & Xu, C. (2026). Romantic Relationships, Athlete Branding, and Social Media Dynamics: Examining the National Football League’s Instagram Posts and Fan Responses to Taylor Swift Content. Journal of Sport Management, 40(3), 224–239. https://doi.org/10.1123/jsm.2025-0076 *Rubenstein, K., & Stephenson, E. F. (2026). Look What You Made Me View: Taylor Swift and the Kansas City Chiefs’ TV Ratings. Journal of Sports Economics, 27(3), 309–319. https://doi.org/10.1177/15270025261416424 *Symons, K. (2026).[[Feminised fandom in a hypermasculine arena: A Sporty-Swiftie autoethnography]]. Sport in Society, 29(5), 1051–1064. https://doi.org/10.1080/17430437.2026.2668294 ~*Take me back to the [[Taylor Swift Scholarly Bibliography]].*~

!Feminised fandom in a hypermasculine arena: A Sporty-Swiftie autoethnography !! Symons, 2026 //Abstract//: Taylor Swift’s presence at National Football League (NFL) games to support her partner Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce has drawn significant interest from sport media and organisations since 2023 as her fans (Swifties) and new to sport fans began participating in football fandom and drove revenue, increased merchandise sales and broadcast numbers. This paper considers this impact from a fan experience perspective in contrasting the behaviours and trends exhibited by Swifties and new sports fans in a hypermasculine sporting environment to the fan cultures of women’s sport where diverse fandom is celebrated. An autoethnographic methodology allows for personal reflections and lived experiences of participation in these intersecting cultures to be analysed alongside the literature and social commentary of this significant moment in sports and pop culture. Symons, K. (2026).Feminised fandom in a hypermasculine arena: A Sporty-Swiftie autoethnography. //Sport in Society, 29//(5), 1051–1064. https://doi.org/10.1080/17430437.2026.2668294 This article is related to [[Gender Studies]] and [[Fan Studies]]. ~*Take me back to the [[Taylor Swift Scholarly Bibliography]].*~

!The Taylor Swift Scholarly Bibliography is only growing... At the time of writing their letter, Gullion and Naimby counted roughly 90 sources on the Bibliography. Currently, the Bibliography has over 100 citations of journal articles, book chapters, and books, and is growing all the time. The bibliographic entries in this game are only a small representation of the whole, which is available on [[Zotero->https://www.zotero.org/groups/6007547/taylor_swift_scholarly_bibliography]] <img src="https://ashleyroachfreiman.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/the-taylor-swift-1.png" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;"> For more information about my process, check out [[About the Librarian]]. !!I can’t decide if it’s a choice, getting swept away. We all come to Taylor Swift through one avenue or another. Linked below are common pathways to Swift. Click on and find out more about how these themes are defined. In each identified theme, I've connected to individual articles as well as a discipline of study. The DOIs should take you to a publisher page, but highlighted links will open more information about individual articles. [[Connection to Girlhood and Teenage Identity]] [[LGBTQIA Connection]] [[Social Media and Fandom]] [[Songwriting]] [[Politics]] [[Other Fans and Fan Identity]] [[Feminism]] [[Literary Allusions]] [[Racial Dynamics]] [[The Eras Tour]] [[Football]] !!It's all connected. !!!All along there was some invisible string tying you to me

!Swift's star power and fandom has risen alongside the growth of social media and online communities. The online fandom and the ways in which these fandoms communicate (heard of a discourse community recently?) have been extensively studied. <img src="https://www.scootermediaco.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Taylor-Swift-Social-Media-Example-768x427.png" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;"> Research that focuses on Social Media is related to [[Communication]], [[Social Science]], and other disciplinary study. !!Articles in the Social Media and Fandom category: *Asuncion, A., Nairn, A., & Trelease, R. (2026). The Swift Shift – promotional marketing (Taylor’s version): How social media and fan engagement shape album release strategies. //Australasian Journal of Popular Culture//, //15//(1), 47–69. https://doi.org/10.1386/ajpc_00128_1 *Asuncion, A. R. (2026). Platform Affordances, Produsage, and the Attention Economy: From Red (Taylor’s Version) to The Life of a Showgirl. //The Manuscript: Journal of Taylor Swift Studies//, //1//(1). https://doi.org/10.63562/3143-3170.1015 *Deng, Y., & Jiang, J. (2025). Emojis as mediators of digital communication: A social semiotic analysis of Taylor Swift’s Instagram posts. //Popular Communication//, //23//(3), 179–195. https://doi.org/10.1080/15405702.2025.2552775 *Eadon, Y. M. (2024). “You Could Hear a Hair Pin Drop”: Queer Utopianism and Informal Knowledge Production in the Gaylor Closeting Conspiracy Theory. //Social Media + Society//, //10//(2), 20563051241242797. https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051241242797 *Morris, A. (2026). [[The 1950s shit: Pregnancy, the far-right and a ‘Tayvis’ baby]]. Celebrity Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/19392397.2026.2631401 *Pignetti, D. (2018). “Remember a Week Ago When Tom Hiddleston Could Do No Wrong?” Tumblr Reactions to the Loss of an Internet Boyfriend. //Transformative Works and Cultures//, (27). https://doi.org/10.3983/twc.2018.1246 *Whiteside, A. (2024). Fandom and argumentation in the social media era: Taylor Swift fans and the rhetoric of Easter egg hunts. //Argumentation and Advocacy//, //60//(2), 119–136. https://doi.org/10.1080/10511431.2024.2432172 ~*Take me back to the [[Taylor Swift Scholarly Bibliography]].*~

!Communication !!Communication studies (or communication science) is an academic discipline that deals with processes of human communication and behavior, patterns of communication in interpersonal relationships, social interactions and communication in different cultures. [[Wikipedia->https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communication_studies]]. <img src="https://www.mi.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Social-Network.jpg" width="750" height="500"> Communication is inherently inter and multidisciplinary, so articles that are about communication might also be about [[Social Science]], [[Social Media and Fandom]], and/or [[Celebrity Studies]] (especially if it is about the relationship between the celebrity and their fans). *Barbery-Montoya, D. C., Ledesma-Traverso, E. M., & Rojas-Espinoza, T. F. (2026). Can Artists Create Omnichannel Experiences for Their Fans? The Case of Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour. In J. L. Reis, C. Ruiz-Mafé, M. K. Peter, & L. P. Reis (Eds.), //Marketing and Smart Technologies// (Vol. 474, pp. 335–344). Springer Nature Switzerland. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-16288-5_24 *Deng, Y., & Jiang, J. (2025). Emojis as mediators of digital communication: A social semiotic analysis of Taylor Swift’s Instagram posts. //Popular Communication, 23//(3), 179–195. https://doi.org/10.1080/15405702.2025.2552775 *Dunn, E., & Roche, J. (2025). Are you ready for it? Harnessing celebrity influence for science communication and seismology – The Taylor Swift effect. International //Journal of Science Education//, Part B, 1–26. https://doi.org/10.1080/21548455.2025.2534042 *Eadon, Y. M. (2024). “You Could Hear a Hair Pin Drop”: Queer Utopianism and Informal Knowledge Production in the Gaylor Closeting Conspiracy Theory. //Social Media + Society, 10//(2), https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051241242797 *Ledbetter, A. M. (2025). A semantic network and fantasy theme analysis of symbolic convergence and fan engagement with Taylor Swift’s songs. //Communication Quarterly, 73//(1), 25–50. https://doi.org/10.1080/01463373.2024.2430011 *McNutt, M. (2020). From “Mine” to “Ours”: Gendered Hierarchies of Authorship and the Limits of Taylor Swift’s Paratextual Feminism. //Communication, Culture and Critique, 13//(1), 72–91. https://doi.org/10.1093/ccc/tcz042 *Morris, A. (2026). [[The 1950s shit: Pregnancy, the far-right and a ‘Tayvis’ baby]]. //Celebrity Studies//. https://doi.org/10.1080/19392397.2026.2631401 *Nisbett, G., & Schartel Dunn, S. (2021). Reputation matters: Parasocial attachment, narrative engagement, and the 2018 Taylor Swift political endorsement. //Atlantic Journal of Communication, 29//(1), 26–38. https://doi.org/10.1080/15456870.2019.1704758 *Volpe, M. (2021). Music’s Powers: Embodiment & Flourishing with Taylor Swift. //Contemporary Music Review, 40//(1), 60–77. https://doi.org/10.1080/07494467.2021.1945228 *Whiteside, A. (2024). Fandom and argumentation in the social media era: Taylor Swift fans and the rhetoric of Easter egg hunts. //Argumentation and Advocacy, 60//(2), 119–136. https://doi.org/10.1080/10511431.2024.2432172 *Woo, C. W., Bertram, V., Okamoto, K., & Qin, Y. “Sunny.” (2026). The Cultivation of a Fandom: Relationship Cultivation Strategies in Fluid Fandom Organizations. //Korean Journal of Communication, 3//(1), 63–83. https://doi.org/10.1353/kjc.00031 ~*Take me back to the [[Taylor Swift Scholarly Bibliography]].*~

!Cultural Studies !!Cultural studies or cultural theory is an academic field that explores the dynamics of contemporary culture (including the politics of popular culture) and its social and historical foundations.[1] Cultural studies researchers investigate how cultural practices relate to wider systems of power associated with, or operating through, social phenomena. These include ideology, class structures, national formations, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender, and generation. Employing cultural analysis, cultural studies views cultures not as fixed, bounded, stable, and discrete entities, but rather as constantly interacting and changing sets of practices and processes [[Wikipedia->https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_studies]]. <img src="https://amcs.washu.edu/sites/amcs.washu.edu/files/styles/fullscreen_video/public/screenshot%202024-04-30%20121154_0.png.webp?h=3698d957" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;"> Culture Studies, like other multi and interdisciplinary studies, connect with [[Gender Studies]], [[Social Science]], [[Celebrity Studies]], [[Political Science]], and [[Communication]]. *Annus, I. (2025). From Aryan Goddess to Pentagon Psyop: Cultural Appropriation and Alt-right Representational Practices. //AMERICANA E-Journal of American Studies in Hungary, 21//(1), 4–13. https://doi.org/10.14232/americana.2025.1.4-13 *Chrsitiana, M., & Mendoza, B. A. (2025). The Life of Swiftie: How Taylor Swift Maintains Social Capital Through Her Relationship with Swifties.// J-Lalite: Journal of English Studies, 6//(2), 194–207. https://doi.org/10.20884/1.jes.2025.6.2.18226 *Ford, J., & Macrossan, P. (2024). ‘[[I work hard and I’m nice to people]]’: Taylor Swift, Miss Americana and the limits of white neoliberal feminism. //Continuum, 38//(6), 934–946. https://doi.org/10.1080/10304312.2024.2445312 *Galloway, K. (2023). Podcasting Taylor. //Journal of Popular Music Studies, 35//(4), 91–110. https://doi.org/10.1525/jpms.2023.35.4.91 *McGrath, J. (2023). The Return to Craft: Taylor Swift, Nostalgia, and Covid-19. //Popular Music and Society, 46//(1), 70–84. https://doi.org/10.1080/03007766.2022.2156761 *Morris, A. (2025). Drew a map on your bedroom ceiling: Fandoms, nostalgic girlhood and digital bedroom cultures in the Swiftie-sphere. //Celebrity Studies, 16//(1), 77–95. https://doi.org/10.1080/19392397.2024.2338540 *Stowell, O. (2025). “You’re like the cute harmless version of QAnon”: Taylor Swift “Gaylor” subreddits and microconspiracy archives, affects, and aesthetics. //International Journal of Cultural Studies//. https://doi.org/10.1177/13678779251322904 ~*Take me back to the [[Taylor Swift Scholarly Bibliography]].*~

!Political Science !!Political science (sometimes abbreviated as poli sci) is a field which aims to study the scientific aspect of politics. It deals with systems of governance and power, and the analysis of political activities, political thought, political behavior, and associated constitutions and laws. [[Wikipedia->https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_science]] <img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/joblist-content/hero-images/Poli-Sci.png" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;"> Swift's star power is so luminous that she has become a perhaps unlikely political lightning rod, with her influence both eagerly sought and hotly argued. *Annus, I. (2025). From Aryan Goddess to Pentagon Psyop: Cultural Appropriation and Alt-right Representational Practices. //AMERICANA E-Journal of American Studies in Hungary, 21//(1), 4–13. https://doi.org/10.14232/americana.2025.1.4-13 *Driessen, S. (2020). Taylor Swift, political power, and the challenge of affect in popular music fandom. //Transformative Works and Cultures, 32//. https://doi.org/10.3983/twc.2020.1843 *Driessen, S. (2022). Campaign Problems: How Fans React to Taylor Swift’s Controversial Political Awakening. //American Behavioral Scientist, 66//(8), 1060–1074. https://doi.org/10.1177/00027642211042295 *Elder, L., Greene, S., Gulati, J., & Lizotte, M. (2025). [[Mirrorball Politics]]: How Taylor Swift Reflects America’s Partisan and Gender Divides. //Social Science Quarterly, 106//(7), e70108. https://doi.org/10.1111/ssqu.70108 *Ford, J., & Macrossan, P. (2024). ‘I work hard and I’m nice to people’: Taylor Swift, Miss Americana and the limits of white neoliberal feminism. //Continuum, 38//(6), 934–946. https://doi.org/10.1080/10304312.2024.2445312 *Jackson, D. J., Nownes, A. J., & Norton, T. (2025). Taylor Swift as a Potential Celebrity Political Endorser. //American Politics Research, 53//(1), 48–54. https://doi.org/10.1177/1532673X241269863 *Krebs, N. D. (2022). Taylor Swift and Kanye West enter the arena: Celebrity politicians and the rise of frontier aesthetics. //Celebrity Studies, 13//(1), 97–101. https://doi.org/10.1080/19392397.2021.2017743 *Maly, E. (2025). Glitter, Pink, and Politics: A Rhetorical Analysis of Taylor Swift’s Miss Americana. In //Women’s Leadership in Popular Culture// (pp. 135–150). Bloomsbury Publishing. https://www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph-detail?docid=b-9781978747203&pdfid=9781978747203.0014.pdf&tocid=b-9781978747203-chapter8 *Nai, A., Vargiu, C., & Garzia, D. (2026). You must like me for me. New experimental evidence on the interplay between musical preferences and ideological attitudes. //Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties//, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1080/17457289.2026.2676629 *Nisbett, G., & Schartel Dunn, S. (2021). Reputation matters: Parasocial attachment, narrative engagement, and the 2018 Taylor Swift political endorsement. //Atlantic Journal of Communication, 29//(1), 26–38. https://doi.org/10.1080/15456870.2019.1704758 *Prins, A. (2020). From awkward teen girl to aryan goddess meme: Taylor Swift and the hijacking of star texts. //Celebrity Studies, 11//(1), 144–148. https://doi.org/10.1080/19392397.2020.1704431 *Youngblood, R. (2025). I Knew You Were Trouble: Deepfakes, Misinformation, and the Threat to Elections. //Louisiana Law Review, 86//(1), 319–364. ~*Take me back to the [[Taylor Swift Scholarly Bibliography]].*~

!Taylor Swift, Gender, and Feminism: What Do the Data Say? !!Lewis, 2026 //Abstract//: In the world of Swiftian scholarship, several scholars have credited Taylor Swift with feminist impact, while others have criticized both her type of feminism and claims to be a feminist. Many arguments rest on a narrow group of protest songs (“The Man”, “You Need To Calm Down”, and “Only The Young”) and a short period of Swift’s career in which she made many paratextual political gestures (2019-2020). However, claims about a songwriter’s feminism (or lack thereof) will be more accurate, robust, and nuanced if they draw on data from her whole career. This article provides the first systematic survey of gendered, feminist, and sexist content in Swift’s discography. Using discourse analysis, I examined the song lyrics, music videos, and official lyric videos in Swift’s discography to identify patterns in her treatment of feminist and gendered topics, themes, and mechanisms. I assigned codes to each theme, trope, and mechanism, and recorded all the instances of each code that I found in each song. I then graphed the data to identify trends and patterns, and analyzed them to answer research questions: is Taylor Swift feminist? (How) has her engagement with gender developed? What aspects of feminism does she engage with and what mechanisms does she deploy? This article presents the methodology and results of the study. By cataloguing Swift’s presentation of distinct gendered roles and behaviors, her critique of prescribed gender roles, and examples of her own reproduction of sexist ideology, I identified patterns and variations in Swift’s treatment of topics relevant to feminism specifically and gender more generally. This discography-wide survey enables scholars to draw data-based conclusions about Swift’s feminism, treatments of gender more neutrally, and possible endorsement of sexist ideology. //Citation//: Lewis, M. (2026). Taylor Swift, Gender, and Feminism: What Do the Data Say? //The Manuscript: Journal of Taylor Swift Studies, 1//(1). https://doi.org/10.63562/3143-3170.1002 This article is related to [[Gender Studies]] and [[Social Science]]. ~*Take me back to the [[Taylor Swift Scholarly Bibliography]].*~

!The Manuscript: Journal of Taylor Swift Studies [[The Manuscript: Journal of Taylor Swift Studies->https://orb.binghamton.edu/jotss/]] is the first of its kind scholarly journal that only reads and publishes rigorous studies centering Taylor Swift. The journal is multi and interdisciplinary, meaning it does not cater to any particular field or method of study, but will consider studies that make connections between and among fields as well as other forms of research. Gullion, J. S., & Nainby, K. (2026). Letter to the Editor—Long Story Short: The Breadth of Taylor Swift Studies. The Manuscript: Journal of Taylor Swift Studies, 1(1). https://doi.org/10.63562/3143-3170.1024 <img src="https://orb.binghamton.edu/assets/md5images/4e141812b4eaaa06b4090f5bc421a682.png" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;"> ~*Take me back to the [[Taylor Swift Scholarly Bibliography]].*~

!Psychology !!Psychology is the scientific discipline that studies mental states and processes and behaviour in humans and other animals. The discipline of psychology is broadly divisible into two parts: a large profession of practitioners and a smaller but growing science of mind, brain, and social behaviour. [[Encyclopedia Brittanica->https://www.britannica.com/science/psychology]] Those who study psychology are interested in "conscious and unconsious phenomena, and mental processes such as thoughts, feelings, and motives." [[Wikipedia->https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychology]]. <img src="https://www.uncp.edu/_images/text-and-photo-collage/GettyImages-2121029847.jpg" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;"> *Blum, A. (2025). The Eros Tour. //Psychoanalytic Inquiry//, 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1080/07351690.2025.2492547 *Dajches, L., Foerster, T. A., Barbati, J. L., & Gall Myrick, J. (2026). “Don’t blame me”: Testing the effects of Taylor Swift fan identity on emerging adults’ moral reasoning strategies and environmental cognitions. //Psychology of Popular Media//. https://doi.org/10.1037/ppm0000673 *Dajches, L., & Stevens Aubrey, J. (2023). Queer folklore: Examining the influence of fandom on sexual identity development and fluidity acceptance among Taylor Swift fans. //Psychology of Popular Media, 12//(3), 255–267. https://doi.org/10.1037/ppm0000408 *Hammond, A. B., Johnson, S. K., Weiner, M. B., & Jacqueline V. Lerner. (2024). [[From Taylor Swift to MLK: Understanding adolescents’ famous character role models]]. //Journal of Moral Education, 53//(1), 157–175. https://doi.org/10.1080/03057240.2022.2041409 *Maxwell, L. C., Tefertiller, A. C., & Neese, C. (2025). “It’s you and me, there’s nothing like this”: Parasocial relationships, fear of missing out, and how fans consume the products in Taylor Swift’s media empire. //Psychology of Popular Media, 15//(1), 90–99. https://doi.org/10.1037/ppm0000588 *Nainby, K. (2024). //Examining blank spaces and the Taylor Swift phenomenon: An investigation of contingent identities//. Lexington Books. https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/examining-blank-spaces-and-the-taylor-swift-phenomenon-9781666942712/ ~*Take me back to the [[Taylor Swift Scholarly Bibliography]].*~

!Literary Studies !!A genre of arts criticism, literary criticism or literary studies is the study, evaluation, and interpretation of literature. Modern literary criticism is often influenced by literary theory, which is the philosophical analysis of literature's goals and methods. [[Wikipedia->https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literary_criticism]] Scholars who study Taylor Swift using a literary lens are focused on her lyrics, literary references, or use of literary techniques. <img src="https://dhjhkxawhe8q4.cloudfront.net/cornell-university-press-wp/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/05175026/CornellOpenLiteraryStudies.png" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;"> *Cullen, S. (2016). [[The Innocent and the Runaway: Kanye West, Taylor Swift, and the Cultural Politics of Racial Melodrama.]] //Journal of Popular Music Studies//, //28//(1), 33–50. https://doi.org/10.1111/jpms.12160 *Flettrich, L. (2024). [[Taylor Swift, Pop Music, and the Creation of Modern Folklore]]. //QuaesitUM//, //11//(1). https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/quaesitum/vol11/iss1/2 *Jakobi, S. (2026). “It’s Me, Hi”—Taylor Swift’s Confessional Songwriting as Transmedia Meta-Autobiographies. //Literature, 6//(2), 8. https://doi.org/10.3390/literature6020008 *Semler, L. E. (2023). Teaching Taylor Swift’s Midnights and Shakespeare’s Sonnets Together: Affinity, Pointing and the ‘Journey in my Head.’ //Australian Journal of English Education//, //58//(1). ~*Take me back to the [[Taylor Swift Scholarly Bibliography]].*~

!Taylor Swift, Pop Music, and the Creation of Modern Folklore !!Flettrich, 2024 //Abstract//:This article explores how Taylor Swift’s album, //folklore//, engages with the history of folk traditions. Throughout folklore, which was released a few months into the COVID-19 lockdown, Swift embraces and alters elements of traditional folklore in order to present pop music as a modern kind of folk. In times of cultural transformation, like that of the COVID-19 pandemic, pop songs as folk offered Swift a means of managing the distress that came with lockdown, while also providing a way to connect with others experiencing similar feelings. In highlighting certain clusters of songs from the album, these familiar yet reinvented elements of folklore are brought to light, culminating in the argument that Swift’s songwriting in folklore creates a contemporary version of traditional folklore, ultimately serving to create unity in isolation. *Flettrich, L. (2024). Taylor Swift, Pop Music, and the Creation of Modern Folklore. //QuaesitUM, 11//(1). https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/quaesitum/vol11/iss1/2 This article is related to [[Music Theory and Composition]] and [[Literary Studies]]. ~*Take me back to the [[Taylor Swift Scholarly Bibliography]].*~

!Fan Studies !!Fan studies is an academic discipline that analyses fans, fandoms, fan cultures and fan activities, including fanworks. It is an interdisciplinary field located at the intersection of the humanities and social sciences, which emerged in the early 1990s as a separate discipline, and draws particularly on audience studies and cultural studies. [[Wikipedia-->https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan_studies]] <img src="https://i.pinimg.com/originals/74/ce/27/74ce2716962bc83d0c147c470d7f20ba.jpg" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;"> *Asuncion, A., Nairn, A., & Trelease, R. (2026). The Swift Shift – promotional marketing (Taylor’s version): How social media and fan engagement shape album release strategies. //Australasian Journal of Popular Culture, 15//(1), 47–69. https://doi.org/10.1386/ajpc_00128_1 *Dajches, L., Foerster, T. A., Barbati, J. L., & Gall Myrick, J. (2026). “Don’t blame me”: Testing the effects of Taylor Swift fan identity on emerging adults’ moral reasoning strategies and environmental cognitions. //Psychology of Popular Media//. https://doi.org/10.1037/ppm0000673 *Donovan, B. (2024). [[The joy of gaylor: Sexual identity in the Taylor Swift fandom]]. //The Journal of Fandom Studies, 12//(2), 115–134. https://doi.org/10.1386/jfs_00095_1 *Driessen, S. (2020). Taylor Swift, political power, and the challenge of affect in popular music fandom. //Transformative Works and Cultures, 32//. https://doi.org/10.3983/twc.2020.1843 *Driessen, S. (2022). Campaign Problems: How Fans React to Taylor Swift’s Controversial Political Awakening. //American Behavioral Scientist, 66//(8), 1060–1074. https://doi.org/10.1177/00027642211042295 *Driessen, S. (2026). Invisible string(s): Exploring conspiratorial participatory practices among Swifties. //Popular Communication//, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/15405702.2026.2617543 *Galeon, K. A. S. (2026). Rituals, Culture, and the Swiftie Self: An Autoethnography of The Life of a Showgirl Release. //The Manuscript: Journal of Taylor Swift Studies, 1//(1). https://doi.org/10.63562/3143-3170.1003 *Galloway, K. (2023). Podcasting Taylor. //Journal of Popular Music Studies, 35//(4), 91–110. https://doi.org/10.1525/jpms.2023.35.4.91 *Li, W., Qian, T. Y., Gong, H., & Xu, C. (2026). Romantic Relationships, Athlete Branding, and Social Media Dynamics: Examining the National Football League’s Instagram Posts and Fan Responses to Taylor Swift Content. //Journal of Sport Management, 40//(3), 224–239. https://doi.org/10.1123/jsm.2025-0076 *Merced, J. Z., & Stack, K. (2026). [[“A Place in This World”: Critical Placemaking and Identity Formation at Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour]]. //GeoHumanities//, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1080/2373566X.2026.2686176 *Morris, A. (2025). Drew a map on your bedroom ceiling: Fandoms, nostalgic girlhood and digital bedroom cultures in the Swiftie-sphere. //Celebrity Studies, 16//(1), 77–95. https://doi.org/10.1080/19392397.2024.2338540 *Morris, A. (2026). The 1950s shit: Pregnancy, the far-right and a ‘Tayvis’ baby. //Celebrity Studies//. https://doi.org/10.1080/19392397.2026.2631401 *Obenza, Brandon Nacu & Teringtering Jr., Rolando B. (2024). Echoes Of Emotion: A Stylistic Analysis of Taylor Swift’s Reputation Album and Its Reception Among “Swifties". //American International Journal of Education and Linguistics Research, 7//(1), 12–25. https://doi.org/10.46545/aijelr.v7i1.342 *Ordoñez, O. (2023). “I’m Still Trying Everything to Keep You Looking at Me”: Taylor Swift and the Autotheoretical Construction of Public Selves. //Feminist Studies, 49//(2), 394–420. https://doi.org/10.1353/fem.2023.a915915 *Pan, S. N. (2026). Identification of Factors Influencing Fan Engagement and Fan Perception on Continuance Intention Among Taylor Swifts Myanmar Fans. //Journal of Interdisciplinary Research, 11//, 112. https://doi.org/10.14456/AU-EJIR.2026.1 *Rossman, M. (2022). Taylor Swift, remediating the self, and nostalgic girlhood in tween music fandom. //Transformative Works and Cultures, 38//. https://doi.org/10.3983/twc.2022.2287 *Symons, K. (2026). Feminised fandom in a hypermasculine arena: A Sporty-Swiftie autoethnography. //Sport in Society, 29//(5), 1051–1064. https://doi.org/10.1080/17430437.2026.2668294 *Whiteside, A. (2024). Fandom and argumentation in the social media era: Taylor Swift fans and the rhetoric of Easter egg hunts. //Argumentation and Advocacy, 60//(2), 119–136. https://doi.org/10.1080/10511431.2024.2432172 ~*Take me back to the [[Taylor Swift Scholarly Bibliography]].*~

!The Eras Tour The Eras Tour was not only a worldwide stadium tour, it was a way of life for the year and a half she was performing. Fan who weren't able to go (ahem, me) watched from their phones to catch easter eggs, reveals, and surprise songs. <img src="https://www.fordfield.com/assets/img/taylor-thumb-39c51e642d.jpg" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;"> Studies about the Eras Tour often fall into the [[Psychology]], [[Fan Studies]], and [[Hard Sciences]] disciplines. !!Articles in the Eras Tour category: *Barbery-Montoya, D. C., Ledesma-Traverso, E. M., & Rojas-Espinoza, T. F. (2026). Can Artists Create Omnichannel Experiences for Their Fans? The Case of Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour. In J. L. Reis, C. Ruiz-Mafé, M. K. Peter, & L. P. Reis (Eds.), //Marketing and Smart Technologies// (Vol. 474, pp. 335–344). Springer Nature Switzerland. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-16288-5_24 *Bright, J. C. (2025). The Eras Tour: Mapping the Eras of Taylor Swift to the Cosmological Eras of the Universe (arXiv:2503.22795). arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2503.22795 *Chrsitiana, M., & Mendoza, B. A. (2025). The Life of Swiftie: How Taylor Swift Maintains Social Capital Through Her Relationship with Swifties. //J-Lalite: Journal of English Studies, 6//(2), 194–207. https://doi.org/10.20884/1.jes.2025.6.2.18226 *Leguizamon, S., & Locke, S. L. (2026). Estimating the Impact of Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour on Local Air Quality. //Southern Economic Journal//, soej.70024. https://doi.org/10.1002/soej.70024 *Lively, K. J. (2026). We’ve Been Dying From Trying: Taylor Swift, Earnestness, and the Collective Repudiation of Cool. //The Manuscript: Journal of Taylor Swift Studies, 1//(1). https://doi.org/10.63562/3143-3170.1023 *Maxwell, L. C., Tefertiller, A. C., & Neese, C. (2025). “It’s you and me, there’s nothing like this”: Parasocial relationships, fear of missing out, and how fans consume the products in Taylor Swift’s media empire. //Psychology of Popular Media, 15//(1), 90–99. https://doi.org/10.1037/ppm0000588 *Merced, J. Z., & Stack, K. (2026). [[“A Place in This World”: Critical Placemaking and Identity Formation at Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour]]. //GeoHumanities//, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1080/2373566X.2026.2686176 *Newman, S. L., & Murieta, A. S. de. (2025). A Swift analysis of the Eras tour set list and implications for astrophysics research (Taylor’s version) (arXiv:2503.24188). arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2503.24188 *Ordoñez, O. (2023). “I’m Still Trying Everything to Keep You Looking at Me”: Taylor Swift and the Autotheoretical Construction of Public Selves. //Feminist Studies, 49//(2), 394–420. https://doi.org/10.1353/fem.2023.a915915 *Rozdilsky, J. L., & Shortt, T. (2026). Taylor Swift and the Social Construction of Risk: Harms Realized and Avoided. //The Manuscript: Journal of Taylor Swift Studies, 1//(1). https://doi.org/10.63562/3143-3170.1020 ~*Take me back to the [[Taylor Swift Scholarly Bibliography]].*~

!"A Place in This World”: Critical Placemaking and Identity Formation at Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour !! Merced & Stack, 2026 //Abstract//:This paper explores Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour as a site of critical placemaking and identity formation within the geographies of global popular culture. We argue that the tour’s spatial and cultural practices such as citywide rebranding, ephemeral place naming, and fan-generated atmospheres, produced a transnational landscape of belonging rooted in affect, mobility, and consumption. Through discourse analysis and ethnographic participation, we trace how these practices reconfigured urban identities while revealing the uneven power relations embedded in celebrity-driven placemaking. While celebrated as inclusive and empowering, the Eras Tour circulated a feminized cultural geography grounded in White, cisgender girlhood and womanhood, raising questions about who is centered in narratives of empowerment and joy. By situating the tour within feminist and cultural geographic frameworks, we illustrate how urban celebration and fan participation can both contest and reproduce dominant hierarchies. Ultimately, the Eras Tour demonstrates how global spectacles function as complex spatial formations where pleasure, identification, and commodification converge, illuminating the gendered politics of place in an era of mediated cultural belonging. Merced, J. Z., & Stack, K. (2026). “A Place in This World”: Critical Placemaking and Identity Formation at Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour. //GeoHumanities//, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1080/2373566X.2026.2686176 ~*Take me back to the [[Taylor Swift Scholarly Bibliography]].*~

!Hard Sciences !![[Hard Sciences->https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_and_soft_science]], a somewhat disputed term, characterizes formal or natural sciences, as opposed to [[Social Science]], like the others listed in the Bibliography. The Eras Tour was so massive, it literally shook the earth. Swift's influence inspired not just writers and scholars in culture and music studies -- the scholarship of the hard sciences has expanded as well. <img src="https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/06/13/16/86079601-13526035-image-a-44_1718291581685.jpg" width="650" height="500"> Seismology is the scientific study of earthquakes (or generally, quakes) and the generation and propagation of elastic waves through planetary bodies. It also includes studies of the environmental effects of earthquakes such as tsunamis; other seismic sources such as volcanoes, plate tectonics, glaciers, rivers, oceanic microseisms, and the atmosphere; and artificial processes such as explosions. [[Wikipedia->https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seismology]] Astrophysics is a science that applies the methods and principles of physics and chemistry in the study of astronomical objects and phenomena including the universe. [[Wikipedia->https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrophysics]] Environmental (EVS or EVST) is a multidisciplinary academic field which systematically studies human interaction with the environment. Environmental studies connects principles from the physical sciences, commerce/economics, the humanities,[1] and social sciences[2] to address complex contemporary environmental issues. It is a broad field of study that encompasses the natural environment, the built environment, and their relationship. [[Wikipedia->https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_studies]] *Bright, J. C. (2025). The Eras Tour: Mapping the Eras of Taylor Swift to the Cosmological Eras of the Universe (arXiv:2503.22795). arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2503.22795 *Dajches, L., Foerster, T. A., Barbati, J. L., & Gall Myrick, J. (2026). “Don’t blame me”: Testing the effects of Taylor Swift fan identity on emerging adults’ moral reasoning strategies and environmental cognitions. //Psychology of Popular Media//. https://doi.org/10.1037/ppm0000673 *Leguizamon, S., & Locke, S. L. (2026). [[Estimating the Impact of Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour on Local Air Quality]]. //Southern Economic Journal//, soej.70024. https://doi.org/10.1002/soej.70024 *Merced, J. Z., & Stack, K. (2026). [[“A Place in This World”: Critical Placemaking and Identity Formation at Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour]]. //GeoHumanities//, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1080/2373566X.2026.2686176 *Newman, S. L., & Murieta, A. S. de. (2025). A Swift analysis of the Eras tour set list and implications for astrophysics research (Taylor’s version) (arXiv:2503.24188). arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2503.24188 ~*Take me back to the [[Taylor Swift Scholarly Bibliography]].*~

<a href="https://ashleyroachfreiman.com/the-taylor-swift-bibliography/" target="_blank">The Taylor Swift Scholarly Bibliography </a> is a work in progress by University of Memphis academic librarian <a href="https://www.memphis.edu/libraries/profiles/profile.amr.php" target="_blank"> Ashley Roach-Freiman</a>. I periodically search for articles on the University Libraries’ metasearch, EBSCO Discovery. I also subscribe to Google Scholar alerts for mentions of “Taylor Swift.” When reviewing articles, I check references to see if they merit scholarly notice. Peer review is not the deciding factor here, though it weighed heavily in my criteria. I was cautious not to include theses and dissertations (perhaps a second category?), though I did include <a href="https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/quaesitum/vol11/iss1/2/" target="_blank">one that was published here at the University of Memphis Undergraduate Research Journal QuaesitUM</a>. Some magazine articles were included, though only a couple of recent ones. Frankly, there are too many magazine and news articles to compile. I keep everything in a <a href="https://www.zotero.org/groups/6007547/taylor_swift_scholarly_bibliography" target="_blank">Zotero</a> group, updating the metadata so that the citations and links reflect the published nature of the work to the best of my ability. I wasn’t /am not exhaustive in my proofreading or compiling, so if you would like to make suggestions, please contact me: amroach@memphis.edu I’ve done my best to not take citations too seriously. I believe that citation is mostly a form of scholarly gatekeeping, academic tribulation to weed out “lesser prepared” students and provide favors to disciplinary friends. Despite all that, I stuck with APA format because I am the most familiar with it. I am on the Editorial Board of <a href="https://orb.binghamton.edu/jotss/editorialboard.htm" target="_blank">The Manuscript: Journal of Taylor Swift Studies</a>(JOTSS). Housed within Binghamton University’s Harpur College, The Manuscript: Journal of Swift Studies (JOTSS) is a graduate student-run, peer-reviewed publication committed to advancing Taylor Swift Studies through interdisciplinary inquiry. We publish original research that examines Swift’s works, influence, and legacy through various theoretical, methodological, and practical approaches. None of the images are mine, except for this one (and the one of me, below): <img src="https://ashleyroachfreiman.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/blonde.png" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;"> <img src="https://ashleyroachfreiman.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/the-taylor-swift-1.png" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;"> ~*Take me back to the [[Taylor Swift Scholarly Bibliography]].*~

!On good girls and woke white women: Miss Americana and the performance of popular white womanhood !!Prins, 2022 //No abstract//: Quoted from page 102, "In this article, I argue that this longstanding axis of evaluation [good girls vs bad girls] has shifted in the last decade. Millennial celebrities - born between the early 1980s and the early 2000s - like Swift grew up with a good-bad girl binary trope constructed around their sexual (in)activity....I argue that in the contemporary landscape of millennial celebrity, this idea of a controlled and regulated sexuality is no longer the primary axis of evaluation." //Citation//: Prins, A. (2022). On good girls and woke white women: Miss Americana and the performance of popular white womanhood. //Celebrity Studies, 13//(1), 102–107. https://doi.org/10.1080/19392397.2021.2023852 This article is related to [[Gender Studies]], [[Political Science]], and [[Social Science]]. ~*Take me back to the [[Taylor Swift Scholarly Bibliography]].*~

!The joy of gaylor: Sexual identity in the Taylor Swift fandom !!Donovan, 2024 //Abstract//: Taylor Swift fans constitute one of the largest and most active pop music fan bases. ‘Gaylors’ are Swift fans who read her artistic and celebrity texts through a queer lens. As an extremely active community within the Swift fandom, gaylors produce subversive readings of Swift’s songs, and they seek to compile evidence that Swift herself is secretly queer. How did speculation about Taylor Swift’s sexuality become an organizing force for many in the Taylor Swift fandom? Using interviews with self-described gaylors (N = 19), this study explores how gaylors produce queer readings of her songs and celebrity persona and how those interpretations cultivate joy, shape personal identity and build community. An in-depth analysis of the gaylor phenomenon illuminates how fans construct diverse readings of pop culture texts, and it reveals the potential importance of fandom for historically marginalized communities. //Citation//: Donovan, B. (2024). The joy of gaylor: Sexual identity in the Taylor Swift fandom. //Journal of Fandom Studies, 12//(2), 115–134. https://doi.org/10.1386/jfs_00095_1 This article is related to [[Fan Studies]] and has an [[LGBTQIA Connection]]. ~*Take me back to the [[Taylor Swift Scholarly Bibliography]].*~

!Economics !!Economics is a social science that studies the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. [[Wikipedia->https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economics]] <img src="https://img.republicworld.com/all_images/whatsappimage2024-06-17at9.53.03am-1718599680152-16_9.webp" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;"> *Hadley, S., Bille, T., & Taylor, M. (2026). Understanding “Swiftonomics”: Creative destruction or more of the same? //Cultural Trends//, 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1080/09548963.2026.2678491 *Haryanto, C. (2025). //The glory of giving everything: The Taylor Swift business model//. Wiley. https://www.wiley.com/en-us/The+Glory+of+Giving+Everything%3A+The+Taylor+Swift+Business+Model-p-9781394331444 *Heggeness, M. (2026). //Swiftynomics: How Women Mastermind and Redefine Our Economy//. University of California Press. *Leguizamon, S., & Locke, S. L. (2026). [[Estimating the Impact of Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour on Local Air Quality]]. //Southern Economic Journal//, soej.70024. https://doi.org/10.1002/soej.70024 *Rubenstein, K., & Stephenson, E. F. (2026). Look What You Made Me View: Taylor Swift and the Kansas City Chiefs’ TV Ratings. //Journal of Sports Economics//, //27//(3), 309–319. https://doi.org/10.1177/15270025261416424

!Estimating the Impact of Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour on Local Air Quality !!Leguizamon & Locke, 2026 //Abstract//: Taylor Swift's Eras Tour is the highest‐grossing concert tour in history, with the average attendance of each concert exceeding that of the Super Bowl. While host cities largely welcome the economic activity that accompanies these events, a noted potential drawback is the effect on local air quality. This paper uses air quality data from the Environmental Protection Agency to analyze the impact of concerts on ozone and PM2.5 concentrations within 10 miles of concert venues. We find that, relative to baseline levels, Eras Tour concerts were associated with statistically and economically significant increases in ozone and PM2.5 concentrations that began before and persisted after the concert day. Air quality on concert days is also found to be twice as likely to be categorized as “unhealthy for sensitive populations,” a category that includes children. The increase in pollution associated with these events exceeds, on average that of any documented large‐scale sporting event. This finding contributes to the growing recognition of the broader environmental externalities associated with large public gatherings. //Citation//: Leguizamon, S., & Locke, S. L. (2026). Estimating the Impact of Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour on Local Air Quality. Southern Economic Journal, soej.70024. https://doi.org/10.1002/soej.70024 This article is connected to [[Hard Sciences]] and [[Economics]]. ~*Take me back to the [[Taylor Swift Scholarly Bibliography]].*~

!From Taylor Swift to MLK: Understanding adolescents’ famous character role models. Journal of Moral Education !!Hammond, et al., 2024 //Abstract//: Famous people can positively influence young people by serving as examples of how to be a good person, but very little is known about which famous people youth look up to and why they do so. We coded and analyzed open-response data from 596 adolescents (Mage = 14.09 years; 58.5% girls, 57.5% White) in the northeastern United States to understand the types of famous people youth look up to and why they reported nominating them. Youth identified a variety of individuals as their famous character role models (FCRMs), ranging from athletes to politicians to activists and YouTube stars. The results suggest there are various reasons young people look up to FCRMs as examples of how to be a good person, although character attributes appear to be the most frequently cited reasons. Results serve as an important precursor to a more comprehensive investigation of the influence (either positive or negative) of these public figures. //Citation//: Hammond, A. B., Johnson, S. K., Weiner, M. B., & Jacqueline V. Lerner. (2024). From Taylor Swift to MLK: Understanding adolescents’ famous character role models. //Journal of Moral Education//, //53//(1), 157–175. https://doi.org/10.1080/03057240.2022.2041409 This article is connected to [[Psychology]]. ~*Take me back to the [[Taylor Swift Scholarly Bibliography]].*~

!The 1950s shit: Pregnancy, the far-right and a ‘Tayvis’ baby !!Morris, 2026 Abstract: In September 2023, Taylor Swift attended a Kansas City Chiefs game in support of her new boyfriend, Travis Kelce, the team’s Tight End. Since then, and as their romance has developed, Tayvis frenzy has gripped the mainstream media and some factions of the Swiftie fandom. This has involved constant speculation about when Swift will become pregnant with Kelce’s baby. This paper argues that the obsession over Taylor Swift’s potential pregnancy (and, in particu-lar, with Kelce) reflects an anxiety around childless women and performances of White heteronormativity. As the far-right con-tinues to gain electoral and cultural power, the reception to Swift’s ‘all-American’ romance positions Swift within the rigidity of the ‘white picket fence’ nuclear family. Whilst Swift Studies explores the celebrity text of Swift,, this paper is the first to contextualise Tayvis within rising right-wing policies. Moreover, the coordinated bot attack against Swift’s The Life of a Showgirl, inciting outrage against her supposed ‘Nazi affiliations’ indicates how Swift’s celeb-rity text is regularly ‘hijacked’ as a tool for sowing division and furthering far-right agendas. Citation: Morris, A. (2026). The 1950s shit: Pregnancy, the far-right and a ‘Tayvis’ baby. Celebrity Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/19392397.2026.2631401 Related to [[Fan Studies]] and [[Football]]. ~*Take me back to the [[Taylor Swift Scholarly Bibliography]].*~

!Music Theory, Composition, and Musicology !!Music theory is the study of theoretical frameworks for understanding the practices and possibilities of music. [[Wikipedia->https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_theory]] Musical composition can refer to an original piece or work of music,[1] either vocal or instrumental, the structure of a musical piece or to the process of creating or writing music. [[Wikipedia->https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_composition]] <img src="https://i.pinimg.com/originals/75/0f/37/750f37e8a56b8cc8fb13bbdf4323a750.jpg?resize=1200%2C1588" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;"> Taylor Swift is widely considered one of THE songwriters of her generation. But why? Is is possible to deconstruct art in such a way? *Cai, Z. (2025). A Millennium of Musical Storytelling: From Tang Dynasty Poetic-Melodic Traditions to Bob Dylan and Taylor Swift. In P. P.-Y. Ng, I. A. Khan, P. S. Borah, & N. Zakuan (Eds.), //Proceedings of the 2025 10th International Conference on Modern Management, Education and Social Sciences// (MMET 2025) (Vol. 961, pp. 355–365). Atlantis Press SARL. https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-38476-475-4_42 *Clipperton, J., & Bitsikokos, L. (2025). You do not get to tell me about sad: Swiftian Saudade in Taylor Swift’s lyrics. //Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts//. https://doi.org/10.1037/aca0000810 *Flettrich, L. (2024). [[Taylor Swift, Pop Music, and the Creation of Modern Folklore]]. //QuaesitUM, 11//(1). https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/quaesitum/vol11/iss1/2 *Ganito, C., Ferreira, C., Taveres, P., & Simao, J. (n.d.). The eras of our lives: Hauntology, fabricated nostalgia, and the paradox of memory in the digital age. //Music, Sound and Memory: A Transdisciplinary Conference in Music, Sound, and Literary Studies, International Conference//. Retrieved https://ciencia.ucp.pt/en/publications/the-eras-of-our-lives-hauntology-fabricated-nostalgia-and-the-par/ *Harrison, C., & Ringrow, H. (2022). Disnarration and the performance of storytelling in Taylor Swift’s folklore and evermore. //International Journal of Literary Linguistics, 11//(1). https://doi.org/10.15462/ijll.v11i1.140 *Jakobi, S. (2026). “It’s Me, Hi”—Taylor Swift’s Confessional Songwriting as Transmedia Meta-Autobiographies. //Literature, 6//(2), 8. https://doi.org/10.3390/literature6020008 *Joseph, K., & Cook, T. (2026). “Everybody’s so Punk on the Internet:” What Online Discourse on Taylor Swift’s Life of a Showgirl Tells us About Social Movements, Media, and Activism. //The Manuscript: Journal of Taylor Swift Studies, 1//(1). https://doi.org/10.63562/3143-3170.1012 *Marley, S. A. (2025). Popular Music Ontology (Taylor’s Version): Re-Recordings, the Rock Ideology, and Taylor Swift. //Popular Music and Society, 48//(3), 346–366. https://doi.org/10.1080/03007766.2025.2489337 *Sloan, N. (2021). [[Taylor Swift and the Work of Songwriting]]. //Contemporary Music Review, 40//(1), 11–26. https://doi.org/10.1080/07494467.2021.1945226