Among his many sartorial enthusiasms, Harry Styles has demonstrated a fondness for pearls, which is perhaps apt, given that the latest Styles-related news has had some clutching theirs. It’s emerged that, from next spring, Texas State University is to offer a course entitled Harry Styles and the Cult of Celebrity: Identity, the Internet and European Pop Culture.
It’s the brainchild of Dr Louie Dean Valencia, an associate history professor, who spent much of the pandemic writing a book on Styles. His class will focus on how the singer and actor’s career relates to modern celebrity and to “questions of gender and sexuality, race, class, nation and globalism, media, fashion, fan culture, internet culture, and consumerism”. Which, to be truthful, sounds like a lot to cover.
