Liz Laughlin is a doctoral student at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Currently, she teaches composition at IUP and at Pitt-Johnstown. Her work has been published by Modern Language Studies and Vernon Press.

Rachel Martin is a Literature and Criticism PhD candidate at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, specializing in multilingual American poets in the long 20th century. She is an adjunct instructor at Carroll College, where she also works as an academic instructional technologist. Rachel holds a Masters of Arts in Teaching as well as a Masters of Education in Instructional Design. She has lived on three continents, taught in a bilingual school, and starred in a language-learning web series. Questions of transmission, storytelling, and retention appear in all aspects of her life. A frequent conference presenter and invited speaker, Rachel is also a poet, exploring themes of memory, individuation, and translation.

Sydney Nelson is a doctoral student at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Her interests include surrealism, comics and popular culture, and fantasy. She also enjoys creative writing and hopes to publish a novel someday. Sydney became a Swiftie through "champagne problems" and still loves evermore and folklore most of all.

Sydnee Pilarski is currently pursuing her Doctoral Degree in Literature and Criticism, specializing in British Literature, at Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP). Her academic interests are vast, but she is independently researching works by Margaret Cavendish. Sydnee previously earned a Master of Arts in Literature and Composition at IUP, where she held the positions of Assistant Editor and Art Editor on the Pennsylvania English, working with Dr. Michael Williamson. Sydnee worked for a small publishing company, and was recently hired as a Legal Writer at Fragomen Law Firm in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She also uses her writing to promote the IUP English department through the Lit / Crit Connections blog, which she designed and manages.

From Hayden, Alabama, Lily Prince earned her BA in English from Birmingham-Southern College. She is now earning her MA in English with a focus in Victorian literature at the University of Montevallo, where she also serves as a Graduate Student Instructor and Editor in Chief for Montage, the university's yearbook. Prince's love for literature can be credited to her upbringing but also to Taylor Swift whose lyrics challenged her to consider implications beyond surface level from a young age. Her favorite albums include Folklore, Evermore, and The Tortured Poets Department due to their references to the literary canon.

To keep a Long Story Short, Alexa Rogers is a graduate student in the English, M.A. program at SUNY Buffalo State. In 2020, she completed undergraduate studies of English at Gannon University. The following year, she earned her M.S. in Marketing and Communications from Franklin University. She has been a fan of Taylor Swift since Fearless and is eager to find new ways to incorporate her interest in literary studies with Swift, with her connections between “Anti-Hero” and Frankenstein being just the beginning

Dr. Jack L. Rozdilsky is an associate professor of disaster and emergency management at York University.  His research interests are in topics related to emergency management and homeland security.  A portion of his research portfolio explores the intersection of disasters and popular culture.  Dr. Rozdilsky has current interests in disaster related aspects of film and music.

Talia Shortt is an emerging female scholar who is a master’s degree candidate in disaster and emergency management at York University.  She has attended Swift’s “Red,” “1989,” and “Eras” tours, and she nostalgically favors the Fearless era. As a passionate poet and songwriter, Talia is enthusiastic about contributing to the academic discourse on Swift as it bridges her interests in Taylor Swift and her academic pursuits in a surprisingly synergistic way.

Annie Schultz is an Assistant Professor in the Liberal Arts Core at Flagler College, where she teaches courses on visual culture, aesthetics and society, and the First Year Seminar. Annie also serves as an Assistant Director of the Flagler College Honors Program. Annie holds a PhD in Philosophy of Education from Loyola University Chicago, with specialization in aesthetics for environmental education. Her research and teaching interests include art theory and interpretation, visual culture, and art education. Most recently, she's written on the aesthetics of misinformation and art-based approaches to media literacy. Her writing can be found in Studies in Art Education, The Journal of Aesthetic Education,  Educational Theory, and Ethics and Education.

Jordan Traut-Jellad is a PhD student in English, General Literature and Rhetoric at Binghamton University. She graduated with her M.A. in English from Millersville University where she specialized in Native American Literature. She has two B.A. degrees from Millersville in English and Anthropology. At Binghamton, her research areas include Indigenous feminism and popular culture studies. She was awarded the Provost’s Doctoral Summer Fellowship. Jordan's aim in her doctoral research and teaching is to center ethical, community-engaged scholarship in the field and constructivism approaches in the classroom. Although her favorite TS song changed with the seasons of her life, Jordan is currently listening to The Prophecy and Cassandra on repeat. Maybe she’s in her metaphysical introspection era.

Jeanette Vigliotti King is an Assistant Professor of Classical and Liberal Education at Flagler College where she teaches courses on creative writing, first year seminar, literature, historical inquiry, and public history. Jeanette also serves as Faculty Coordinator of Core General Education. She received her interdisciplinary humanities PhD from Virginia Commonwealth University in Media Art Text. Her research and teaching interests include the politics of knowledge production, feminist science and technology studies, monster theory, digital body construction, poetry as archival method, and gender and race in twentieth century St. Augustine, Florida. She co-curated the permanent museum exhibit. St. Augustine Surf Culture and History and the temporary exhibit Magic, Mirth, and Mortality: Musings on Black Motherhood.Her academic and creative work can be found in Pacific Review: A West Coast Arts Annual, Comunicazioni Sociali: Journal of Media, Performing Arts, and Cultural Studies and Archival Outlook.

“Are you ready for it?” Michelle Winters is a Ph.D. candidate studying at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.  Being a certified Swiftie and a high school English teacher for several years, Winters has often explored the connective ties and writing styles between Taylor Swift and Sylvia Plath.  In particular, Winters appreciates both women’s use of confessional poetry.  It’s a “Style” Winters knows “All too Well.” Winters uses the “Blank Spaces”  between Swift and Plath’s works to tie them together with a smile and to help find their place in this world.   By following Swift’s “Manuscript,” Winters has learned that people really do throw rocks at things that shine, but life is too short for “Bad Blood.”  Winters’ “Wildest Dream” is to “Begin Again” as she forms a new Reputation with her conference debut.  After all, Winters sees Swift as the “Mastermind,” and her works will “Forever & Always” “Long Live.”