Harvard seeks more Taylor Swift teaching assistants to cope with demand

nme.com:

Taylor Swift at Harvard University has proved so popular that the institution is seeking more teaching assistants to help deliver it.The course is set to begin later in the spring and will involve explorations into “fan culture, celebrity culture, adolescence, adulthood and appropriation; how to think about white texts, Southern texts, transatlantic texts, and queer subtexts”, according to Harvard’s website.

According to CBS, nearly 300 students have signed up.Now, according to the course’s instructor Stephanie Burt, more staff are needed to deliver the course to keep up with demand and she has reached out on X/Twitter to try and find more people to teach it.“Our Taylor Swift course at Harvard is so popular that we need additional teaching assistants.

If you live in the Boston/Providence metro, love Tay, & have *qualifications or experience to teach a writing intensive college course,*” she wrote.Ok I'm doing this.

Our Taylor Swift course at Harvard is so popular that we need additional teaching assistants. If you live in the Boston/Providence metro, love Tay, & have *qualifications or experience to teach a writing intensive college course,* my DMs are open.— Stephanie Burt (also elsewhere) (@accommodatingly) January 3, 2024Burt then told WBZ-TV on Friday (January 5) that she was quickly inundated with applications. “I went from not having enough people who [were qualified] to having dozens, possibly 150, applications in just a few hours.”Explaining why the course was being taught, she added: “The way she reaches to other parts of culture, she’s someone I feel good teaching a class about and someone who Harvard students already like and want to take classes about,” Burt said.