spring 2025
Jessica Laser, PhD
Visiting Assistant Professor, Claremont McKenna College
Featured Poet in Invisible Strings: 113 Poets Respond to the Songs of Taylor Swift
Author of The Goner School, Planet Drill, and Sergei Kuzmich from All Sides
Eric Smialek, PhD
Senior Research Fellow in Musicology at University of Huddersfield
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Postdoctoral Fellow
Researcher of “Who Needs to Calm Down? Taylor Swift and Rainbow Capitalism”
Publications available at Google Scholar, Pure, ResearchGate, Academia.edu
fall 2024
Bryan West
USA Today Taylor Swift Reporter
Keith Nainby, PhD
Professor of Communication Studies at CSU Stanislaus
Author of Examining Blank Spaces and the Taylor Swift Phenomenon: An Investigation of Contingent Identities
spring 2024
Alexander Lindsay
Head of Production for 090 Media
Interactive Producer for Taylor Swift's "Acoustic Performances from RED album"
Jean Johnstone
Professor of Arts & Cultural Policy for UC Berkeley's Goldman School of Public Policy
Keith Nainby, PhD
Professor of Communication Studies at CSU Stanislaus
Author of Examining Blank Spaces and the Taylor Swift Phenomenon: An Investigation of Contingent Identities
Jake Aguas, PhD
GenExpert and Professor of Management & Human Resources at Chapman University
Author of Generation Z and the COVID-19 Crisis; Megatrends: the Transformative Forces Reshaping the United States; Millennial and Generation Z's Perspectives on Leadership Effectiveness; and Generation Z and the Mental Health Crisis