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How one English professor 'Enchanted' students with a course about Taylor Swift songs

"'Tis the Damn Season" to listen to Taylor Swift. At least that's the case for the students enrolled in professor Elizabeth Scala's course.
Taylor Swift attends a premiere for the short film "All Too Well." (Evan Agostini/AP)

“’Tis the Damn Season” to listen to Taylor Swift. At least that’s the case for the students enrolled in professor Elizabeth Scala‘s course, The Taylor Swift Songbook.

Scala is an English professor at the University of Texas at Austin. This semester she began teaching a course connecting Swift’s songwriting to the works of William Shakespeare, Sylvia Plath and other literary greats.

She first got the idea for the course last year while listening to

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