Stephanie Burt
Cognoscenti contributor
Stephanie Burt is the Donald P. and Katherine B. Loker Professor of English at Harvard. Her books include the poetry collection “We Are Mermaids,” “After Callimachus” and “Don’t Read Poetry: A Book About How to Read Poems.”
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Why I'm teaching Taylor Swift at Harvard
Her songs speak to my privilege, to my insecurities, to my wish for attention, to my hopes that everybody will love me for who I am, writes Stephanie Burt, a...