Harvard offers Taylor Swift and Her World course that will discuss her celebrity relationships

Harvard English professor Stephanie Burt, a man who identifies as a woman, explained that the once prestigious school will offer a course surrounding pop star Taylor Swift.

Burt explained to TMZ Live that while there will be an emphasis on Swift's music as art, the course material will also include the musician's relationships as they pertain to lyrics and songs she has released.

"She writes about her relationships, so we will be talking about her relationships. So we will be talking about Travis Kelce," Burt said of Swift's alleged boyfriend, who is in the NFL.

"The amount of time that we give him and therefore that we give American football is going to depend honestly on whether she has written and released songs about him and about that relationship."

Burt referred to himself as a woman when he explained why there is so much coverage of Swift's relationships in the media.

"Women tend to get looked at more in terms of who we're dating, especially straight women, maybe."

Burt, who has a B.A. from Harvard and a Ph.D. from Yale, explained in a 2017 editorial that after spending time identifying as a male and also a female, he wished to move forward only as a female.

The article was unironically presented with a feature image of a curtain being pulled back to reveal the female symbol and noted that Burt has been known as both Stephen and Steph.

"As many of you know, but some of you don’t, after several years of presenting myself as a lady some of the time, and as a guy at other times, I am now a lady all the time," he wrote.

"The more I get to live as a woman, the more I feel like I can live in a physical world," Burt went on.

However, this professor isn't the only educator at an American university to offer a Swift-related program.

The University of Florida honors program lists a Musical Storytelling course where "students will fearlessly jump then fall into 13 gorgeous weeks of discussing Taylor Swift’s discography," among other artists.

As well, Psychology of Taylor Swift – Advanced Topics of Social Psychology was set to make its debut at Arizona State for the 2023 fall semester. Meanwhile, NYU has its own Swift course taught by a staff writer from Rolling Stone.

At the same time, the University of Texas began a new liberal arts course in 2022 celebrating Swift's songbook. Literary Contests and Contexts — The Taylor Swift Songbook reportedly taught the woman's music alongside the works of Shakespeare and Dickinson.

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