Harry Styles performs at a Tiny Desk Concert in 2020. He’ll soon be the subject of a course at Texas State University. Image: Max Posner/NPR
A new college history course at Texas State University will focus on Harry Styles and the culture of celebrity. Starting next spring, roughly 20 lucky undergraduate students will get to learn how — as the pop star so famously put it — “it’s not the same as it was.”
Louie Dean Valencia, a professor of digital history and a longtime Styles fan, announced on Twitter over the weekend that the university’s honors college had approved his course, “Harry Styles and the Cult of Celebrity: Identity, the Internet and European Pop Culture,” for the spring of 2023.
That post has since racked up more than 10,000 likes, inspired coverage from media outlets around the world and prompted, in Valencia’s estimation, hundreds of messages.
“If nothing else, the…
