Courtney Weiss Smith

Biography

Courtney Weiss Smith

Courtney Weiss Smith is an associate professor in the Department of English at Wesleyan University and associate editor at the journal History and Theory.  She is the author of Empiricist Devotions: Science, Religion, and Poetry in Early Eighteenth-Century England (University of Virginia Press, 2016), which won the Walker Cowen Memorial Prize, and co-editor, with James Noggle, of the substantively revised 11th edition of Norton Anthology of English Literature, vol. C, The Restoration and Eighteenth Century. Her current book project is Sound Stuff: Words in Enlightenment Philosophy and Poetics.