Courtney Weiss Smith
About
Associate Editor, History and Theory
Professor of English, Wesleyan University
Courtney Weiss Smith is an associate editor at History and Theory and a professor in the Department of English at Wesleyan University. She works at the intersection of poetics and intellectual history, with expertise on late seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Britain. 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 the editor, with James Noggle, of a substantively revised 11th edition of the Norton Anthology of English Literature, vol. C, The Restoration and Eighteenth Century (Norton, 2024). She also recently edited, with Valeria López Fadul, the “Philology Now” theme issue of History and Theory. Her new book, Sound Stuff: Words in Enlightenment Philosophy and Poetics, is forthcoming from Yale University Press in 2027.