Draft:Brittany Spanos


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Brittany Spanos is an American music journalist, educator, and pop culture critic. She is a senior writer and broadcaster at Rolling Stone magazine. Spanos teaches a course on Taylor Swift at New York University Tisch School of the Arts and was a keynote speaker at the 2024 Swiftposium.

Biography
Spanos grew up in the South Suburbs of Chicago before moving to New York to study at NYU's Gallatin School of Individualized Study. She became Clubs Editor at The Village Voice and freelanced for magazines such as Rookie, Cosmopolitan, Vulture, The Hairpin and SPIN before joining Rolling Stone as a staff writer in 2015. Spanos has been guest contributor to a variety of other publications such as Smithsonian and Slate magazines, as well as a radio broadcaster, panel participant, and public speaker. She has also worked as a consultant for clients such as MTV.

At Rolling Stone, she has written in-depth profiles and conducted interview with bold name stars such as Adele, Cardi B, Dua Lipa, Janelle Monáe, Lizzo, Issa Rae, and Harry Styles. Her work has frequently featured on the magazine's cover. Since 2020 she has been the host of a weekly broadcast called Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums, which, according to the magazine, is based on an "updated version of Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums list"''. ''

Spanos teaches a course on Taylor Swift at NYU's Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music. . According to American Songwriter magazine, the course, which "follows the evolution of Swift's career as a songwriter, entrepreneur, and artist in country and pop", is intended to "deconstruct both the appeal and aversions to Taylor Swift". The article continues, "Spanos, who has been covering the ascension of Swift throughout her career" said that she hopes to help her students "rethink how to engage with one of the world's biggest and sometimes divisive stars". Since Spanos's class first went viral in 2021, other universities such as the University of Texas at Austin, UC Berkeley, Harvard, Stanford, and Ghent University in Belgium have begun offering similar courses. In 2024, Spanos delivered the keynote address at Swiftposium, a 2-day symposium on Swift at the University of Melbourne.