Welcome to 111 Words, by Andrew Shields

The persona in Taylor Swift lyrics: Not “the Homecoming Queen”; more like another famous queen at a high school in the United States

A “moral Gaza” in Thomas Hardy’s “Desperate Remedies” (1871)

Switching from Jane Austen to Charles Dickens for our Academic Writing in English II course

Struggling against emotions: Mr. Darcy in Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice” (1813) and Pastor Maybold in Thomas Hardy’s “Under the Greenwood Tree” (1872)

A chain of willful associations linking Taylor Swift, James Joyce, and The Grateful Dead

A thirty-second German introduction to Taylor Swift’s “Cruel Summer"