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Courtney Weiss Smith @cweiss-smith.bsky.social · 1d

I’m so excited for this book!

Olivia Smith @oliviasmith.bsky.social · 1d

I've lost track of how many people over the past years I've told to watch for Elizabeth Scott-Baumann's next book coming out, and now it's here. Proper good ideas: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

Sex and Style

A new literary history that places women writers at the center of poetic theory and practice in English literature of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries

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Courtney Weiss Smith @cweiss-smith.bsky.social · Aug 26

Curated by the wonderful Miya Tokumitsu!

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Courtney Weiss Smith @cweiss-smith.bsky.social · Aug 26

First sign (literally) on campus of something I’m REALLY looking forward to this fall! www.wesleyan.edu/dac/exhibiti...

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Courtney Weiss Smith @cweiss-smith.bsky.social · Aug 14

Ah! I just saw that Ruth Mack’s new book is out! Forget what I was planning to do today, will be reading instead 🤩 www.sup.org/books/litera...

Handicraft Philosophies | Stanford University Press

The term "Enlightenment" still carries its tie to a grand philosophical tradition that in Britain moves through Bacon, Locke, and Hume. But the literature and philosophy of the Enlightenment was full ...

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Courtney Weiss Smith @cweiss-smith.bsky.social · Jul 16

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Courtney Weiss Smith @cweiss-smith.bsky.social · Jul 16

We are hiring a tenure track poet! I’m so excited / spread the word… wesleyan.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/career...

Assistant Professor of English

The Department of English at Wesleyan University seeks a published poet for a tenure-track appointment beginning July 1, 2026. Teaching responsibilities include two courses per semester in introductor...

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Courtney Weiss Smith @cweiss-smith.bsky.social · Jul 5

being in Indonesia and having a perfect breakfast is not going to go wasted on me which is why I’m telling you about it… :)

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Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · Jun 29

in CLOSE READING FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY, @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social and I wrote a 36 page three-part introduction: What Close Reading Is, What Close Reading Does, and What Close Reading Has Been

30 pages of it is now online at @princetonupress.bsky.social

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Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century

A user’s guide to the fundamental practice of literary studies, providing context, examples, and practical exercises

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Courtney Weiss Smith @cweiss-smith.bsky.social · Jun 20

Omg!

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Courtney Weiss Smith @cweiss-smith.bsky.social · Jun 20

Me too!

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Courtney Weiss Smith @cweiss-smith.bsky.social · Jun 20

For some reason the tube at the back of the eyeball is sending me…

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Courtney Weiss Smith @cweiss-smith.bsky.social · Jun 20

I’m feeling pretty obsessed by @publicdomainrev.bsky.social / CP Cranch’s “literal renderings” of Emerson’s figures. The transparent eyeball! publicdomainreview.org/collection/c...

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Courtney Weiss Smith @cweiss-smith.bsky.social · Jun 10

Thanks! Also hahahaha you could tag yourself in the pile! 😂🤓

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Courtney Weiss Smith @cweiss-smith.bsky.social · Jun 9

Ugh I’m sorry for you, because I very much know how unpleasant it is—like the most stressful fugue state!

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Courtney Weiss Smith @cweiss-smith.bsky.social · Jun 9

Bwahahahahaha <sigh>

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Courtney Weiss Smith @cweiss-smith.bsky.social · Jun 9

Hahaha BUT WHICH ONE DAVE?!

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Courtney Weiss Smith @cweiss-smith.bsky.social · Jun 9

MAYBE I NEED MORE BOOKS! MAYBE THIS WOULD GO SMOOTHER IF I ADDED TEN MORE! 😂

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Courtney Weiss Smith @cweiss-smith.bsky.social · Jun 9

Writing the introduction to my book and basically trying to be reading and citing all of these books at the same time; gotta keep them all right next to me so I can delusionally attempt to simultaneously treat all of them in coherent sentences, going poorly…

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Courtney Weiss Smith @cweiss-smith.bsky.social · Jun 5

It would be fascinating to see how far back we could trace this particular thread… (I wish, like one of the Fates, I had the power to snip it off soon!)

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Courtney Weiss Smith @cweiss-smith.bsky.social · Jun 5

Cleanth Brooks writing about “the much advertised demise of the Humanities” in 1947 😳

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Courtney Weiss Smith @cweiss-smith.bsky.social · May 28

I have more half baked thoughts too. Are you writing on Gray? More people should write on Gray!

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Courtney Weiss Smith @cweiss-smith.bsky.social · May 28

But more associatively it occurred to me that some of the most canonical scholarship on the poem is precisely about what it *naturalizes*—so there might be a fascinating way of rereading some of the classic readings (Empson and Kaul eg) pushing on *nature* in a different way…

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Courtney Weiss Smith @cweiss-smith.bsky.social · May 28

(I see Tess Somervell has an essay in it—and she was one of the first names that popped into my head, wondering if she had written on Gray…)

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Courtney Weiss Smith @cweiss-smith.bsky.social · May 27

Well my first thought was to wonder if this edited collection I heard about is out—and it is! The essays here will definitely help! www.routledge.com/Thomas-Gray-...

Thomas Gray among the Disciplines

Throughout the 250 years that have passed since Thomas Gray’s death, he has primarily been celebrated as a poet. This makes sense because, although he published relatively little verse, he published l...

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Courtney Weiss Smith @cweiss-smith.bsky.social · May 27

Did you get no hits on this? I have lots of thoughts on this but they are more of an associative swirl than a proper answer. I also would be fascinated to know if someone had a proper easy recent answer…

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