Courtney Weiss Smith

About

Associate Editor of History and Theory
Associate Professor of English, Wesleyan University

Courtney Weiss Smith is an associate editor at History and Theory and an associate professor in the Department of English at Wesleyan University. Her first book, Empiricist Devotions: Science, Religion, and Poetry in Early Eighteenth-Century England (University of Virginia Press, 2016), won the Walker Cowen Memorial Prize for outstanding scholarship in eighteenth-century studies. She is also a newly appointed editor of the Norton Anthology of English Literature, vol. C, The Restoration and Eighteenth Century, working with volume co-editor James Noggle and the rest of the editorial team on a substantively revised 11th edition. Her current book project is Sound Stuff: Words in Enlightenment Philosophy and Poetics, a history of ideas about the sound of words (including rhyme, onomatopoeia, pun, and polyptoton). Work from this new project has appeared in ELH, Modern Philology, and Stanford’s Arcade project.

Contact

Email: csmith03@wesleyan.edu

Twitter: @cweiss_smith