Harry Styles is set to be the subject of a course taught at a Texas University from next year, it has been announced. Harry Styles and the Cult of Celebrity: Identity, the Internet, and European Pop Culture will be on offer at Texas State University Honours College from spring 2023.
It will focus on the Watermelon Sugar singer’s work, both in music and film, in order to “understand the cultural and political development of the modern celebrity”. Historian Dr Louie Dean Valencia, who will be teaching the course, announced the news on Twitter, citing it as the first of its kind.
He said : “It’s official. I’m the world’s first ever university course on the work of Harry Styles. It’s happening Spring 2023 at TXST University.
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"This is what tenure looks like. Let’s go!”
He also shared the course description, which reads: “This course focuses on British musician Harry Styles and popular European culture to understand the cultural and political development of the modern celebrity as related to questions of gender and sexuality, race, class, nation and globalism, media, fashion, fan culture, internet culture, and consumerism.”
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