Midnight Sonnets: Taylor Swift and Shakespeare, presented by Professor Liam Semler. American pop icon Taylor Swift stands out as a musical powerhouse with unmatched success—selling hundreds of millions of albums, winning four Grammys for Album of the Year, shattering streaming records, and leading the world’s highest-grossing concert tour. As a billionaire with a massive fanbase and a commanding social media presence, she’s even been compared to William Shakespeare, with some suggesting she’s his modern-day counterpart. In this public lecture, Professor Semler will explore the intriguing parallels between Swift and Shakespeare as seen online and in classrooms.