Elizabeth Scala
Elizabeth Scala is a literary scholar at the University of Texas at Austin.[1] A medievalist by training, she specializes in the works of Geoffrey Chaucer, particularly his Canterbury Tales.[2][3]
In the fall of 2022, a course she offered on the songwriting of Taylor Swift drew global attention, with Scala providing interviews to such media outlets as CNN, Billboard (magazine), Newsweek, National Public Radio, BBC Radio 4, the New York Post, and PinkNews.[4][5][6][7][8][9][10] Titled Literary Contexts and Contests: The Taylor Swift Songbook, this course examined Swift's lyrics alongside those of canonical writers like William Shakespeare and Sylvia Plath, as well as Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca and Alfred Hitchcock's 1940 filmic adaptation of that novel.[11][12] Although Swift had earlier been the focus of a New York University course which explored her musical entrepreneurship and celebrity,[13] Scala's emphasis on the literary devices of Swift's songs was among the first sustained efforts to place their lyrics in relation to the Western canon of literature.[14][15]
Scala's scholarship includes The Canterbury Tales Handbook published by W.W. Norton & Company and Desire in the Canterbury Tales from Ohio State University Press.[16]
References
- ↑ "Profile for Elizabeth Scala at UT Austin". liberalarts.utexas.edu. Retrieved 2022-12-08.
- ↑ Scala, Elizabeth (2009). "The Women in Chaucer's "Marriage Group"". Medieval Feminist Forum. 45: 50–56. doi:10.17077/1536-8742.1766.
- ↑ Smith, Peter J. (2015-06-25). "Desire in the Canterbury Tales, by Elizabeth Scala". Times Higher Education (THE). Retrieved 2022-12-08.
- ↑ "The University of Texas is offering a class on the songs of Taylor Swift". CNN. 25 August 2022.
- ↑ Dailey, Hannah; Dailey, Hannah (2022-08-24). "A 'Taylor Swift Songbook' Class Is Being Offered at the University of Texas". Billboard. Retrieved 2022-12-08.
- ↑ "Taylor Swift is Latest Addition to Shakespeare Scholar's Course Offerings". Newsweek. 22 August 2022.
- ↑ Tong, Scott; Saxena, Kalyani (8 December 2022). "How one English professor 'Enchanted' students with a course about Taylor Swift songs". WBUR. Retrieved 8 December 2022.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ "Prof. Scala @ BBC 4". YouTube.
- ↑ Messier, Ashlyn (2022-08-23). "Educational Taylor Swift course offered to students at University of Texas this fall". Retrieved 2022-12-08.
- ↑ "Professor explains why Taylor Swift university course is no waste of money". 31 August 2022.
- ↑ "Why I teach a course connecting Taylor Swift's songs to the works of Shakespeare, Hitchcock and Plath". 18 November 2022.
- ↑ "This University of Texas professor knows Taylor Swift's songbook all too well". Texas Standard. Retrieved 2022-12-08.
- ↑ "Taylor Swift Course Launched at New York University's Clive Davis Institute". 2 February 2022.
- ↑ "A Taylor Swift class is coming to the University of Texas. Are you ready for it?". Austin American-Statesman. Retrieved 2022-12-08.
- ↑ Scala, Elizabeth. "Why I teach a course connecting Taylor Swift's songs to the works of Shakespeare, Hitchcock and Plath". The Conversation. Retrieved 2022-12-08.
- ↑ "The Canterbury Tales Handbook". wwnorton.com. Retrieved 2022-12-08.
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