https://arvinfomedia.com/myjournals/index.php/GIJSEL <p><strong>Global Impact Journal: Studies in English Literature</strong> is a peer-reviewed journal committed to publishing high-quality original research articles, comprehensive reviews, and selected high-impact reprints in the field of literary studies. The journal aims to advance critical, theoretical, and methodological understanding of literature across historical periods, genres, and cultures. Submissions are expected to provide rigorous textual analysis, contextual interpretation, and engagement with contemporary scholarly debates, contributing to the development of innovative frameworks, comparative perspectives, and interdisciplinary insights in literary research.</p> <p>Published half-yearly, the journal is available in both print and electronic formats, ensuring wide accessibility to the research community.</p> en-US Global Impact Journal: Studies in English Literature https://arvinfomedia.com/myjournals/index.php/GIJSEL/article/view/468 <p>Taylor Swift’s songwriting is frequently analyzed through the lens of confessional songwriting, blurring the boundaries between factual and fictional storytelling. This article proposes understanding her work as transmedia meta-autobiographies, a genre characterized by self-reflexivity and the questioning of autobiographical rules. Drawing on Mueller-Greene’s definition of meta-autobiography and intersectional theories, the study analyzes Swift’s lyrics, music videos, and paratextual elements, specifically focusing on selected works after her split with Big Machine Records, as this marks a different era in her creative work and is also linked to the discourse around her re-recordings. The analysis demonstrates how Swift utilizes transmedia storytelling to perform the act of remembering and writing, effectively staging her “self” across various media formats. This self-representation could according to the rules of the genre function as a counter-narrative to traditional male-centric autobiographical forms by centering girlhood. However, the article also highlights contradictions regarding authenticity and the commodification of this identity.</p> Stefanie Jakobi Copyright (c) 2026 Global Impact Journal: Studies in English Literature 2026-10-17 2026-10-17 1–12 1–12