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Courtney Weiss Smith @cweiss-smith.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I took my Tristram Shandy seminar to Wesleyan’s Book Arts Lab, where we learned how to marble. My very serious intellectual takeaway is: marbling is sooooooo fun!

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History and Theory @histandtheojrnl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

📣 OUT NOW: Our September 2026 issue! This issue has articles by Peter Yuanxi Chen and Gwenffrewi J. Morgan; a forum with contributions by Nancy Florida, Karen Strassler, Ismail Fajrie Alatas, Daniel Andrew Birchok, Tony Day, and Els Bogaerts; and review essays by Elías J. Palti and Eugen Zeleňák.

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Courtney Weiss Smith @cweiss-smith.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

What is the movie that came out before you were born that you’ve watched the most times?

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Grease Handjive Dance Scene

ALT: Grease Handjive Dance Scene

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Caleb Smith @c-also.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Back to school! It’s time to register yourself for this year’s gathering of The English Institute, happening at Yale October 2-3. Look at this killer lineup, and the shared reading is from Nietzsche. Come on up!

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Courtney Weiss Smith @cweiss-smith.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

We do read alike—what you say abt a web feels right to me. I wonder how rare this is. On the podcast, they said there were six different types…

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Courtney Weiss Smith @cweiss-smith.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I feel the exactly the same way as you do, about it not being exactly to do with reading aloud. But I think sound and rhythm do have something to do with it for me, even when reading silently…

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Courtney Weiss Smith @cweiss-smith.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Oooh that’s interesting! I feel like that’s closer to my aural/wordiness than the visual ones but intriguingly different…

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Courtney Weiss Smith @cweiss-smith.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I’m a sucker for a Seventeen-style quiz, but I found this one—that I heard about on the Secret Life of Books podcast—genuinely intriguing. Among different types of readers, I am a *listener*: does this explain everything about me?! readerbank.org/experience/i...

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Courtney Weiss Smith @cweiss-smith.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I don’t know if it qualifies as comfort exactly but I’m currently obsessed with Pluribus, which is so smart and funny. I can imagine a day lounging and binging it would be lovely…

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Courtney Weiss Smith @cweiss-smith.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Hahaha I basically bought this house for the desk 😂

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Courtney Weiss Smith @cweiss-smith.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

You guys, I finally bought blinds for my home office—because I felt like during zoom calls people kept staring at my sweet neighbors getting into their car; anyway this continues to be my favorite room of the house…

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Jessica R Valdez @jrvaldez.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

We're hiring in the long eighteenth century at LSU. Please spread the word and let me know if you have any questions. It's a wonderful department to work in! lsu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/LSU/job/0210...

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Assistant Professor - 18th-Century British Literature

All Job Postings will close at 12:01a.m. CST (1:01a.m. EST) on the specified Closing Date (if designated). If you close the browser or exit your application prior to submitting, the application progre...

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Courtney Weiss Smith @cweiss-smith.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Seconding Quire of Paper! Addison’s Adventures of a Shilling isn’t entirely representative but quite short and very teachable! I’ve also done the one focused on Lady’s Slippers and Shoes with students…

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Alexander Huber @c18ah.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Today in eighteenth-century poetry: date of birth of James Thomson (1700-1748), Elizabeth Rowe (née Singer) (1674-1737), and Joanna Baillie (1762-1851). Poems are included in the #EighteenthCenturyPoetryArchive: www.eighteenthcenturypoetry.org #c18th #poetry #DH #OTD

James Thomson (1700-1748) / © National Portrait Gallery, London

Elizabeth Rowe (née Singer) (1674-1737) / © National Portrait Gallery, London

Joanna Baillie (1762-1851) / © The Hunterian Museum

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Courtney Weiss Smith @cweiss-smith.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Oh I like the counterfactual history in which we are colleagues! But all the butterfly ripples then… :)

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Courtney Weiss Smith @cweiss-smith.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Regular bookstore and cafe upstairs, big downstairs is split between lululemon swag and course books :)

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Courtney Weiss Smith @cweiss-smith.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Obvs a dif size institution but Wesleyan has a decent model of this—it’s run as a branch of a local independent bookstore. A few years back it moved from campus to Main St, to bring more local people in but also encourage students out of their little bubble. www.wesleyanrjjulia.com/default.asp

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Welcome | Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore

Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore online is your place for University textbooks, gear and supplies.

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Courtney Weiss Smith @cweiss-smith.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I got a beautiful treat in the mail today You all should read Alexis’s wonderful book…

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Courtney Weiss Smith @cweiss-smith.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Just re-upping this, as everyone starts to think towards the semester. Help us spread the word that Wesleyan is hiring a tenure track professor of early modern literature! Deadline September 15!

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Courtney Weiss Smith @cweiss-smith.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Oh my goodness 🔥. I just read the Penelopiad also as part of my Greek travel theme reading—she’s sooo good!

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Courtney Weiss Smith @cweiss-smith.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Who among us hasn’t had a day where we felt lovely, except rather squat and bird-footed… 😂

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Courtney Weiss Smith @cweiss-smith.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I haven’t yet seen the Odyssey so I have nothing to add to The Discourse except these amazing sculptures of sirens, which I just encountered at a museum:

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Courtney Weiss Smith @cweiss-smith.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I’m sorry to hear this news—what an amazing scholar!

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Courtney Weiss Smith @cweiss-smith.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

It’s a lovely and smart piece—I can see how it would work well for introducing academic argument!

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Courtney Weiss Smith @cweiss-smith.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

(I admit i didn’t make it past the first chapter of Broken Harbor because I find murder and young children a bit hard to stomach together—I wish I was tougher though because people seem to love it…)

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Courtney Weiss Smith @cweiss-smith.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

I would *love* to talk with you sometime about the Likeness! I sort of liked it, but I had trouble with the plausibility of the set up and it just kept getting in my way of immersion in that magical thing she does with groups (which she def does beautifully in that novel!)

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Courtney Weiss Smith @cweiss-smith.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

My two favorites are The Witch Elm and The Secret Place.

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Courtney Weiss Smith @cweiss-smith.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Oh fantastic, thanks! Will read now!

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Courtney Weiss Smith @cweiss-smith.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Oooh! Thats exactly the kind of thing I’m interested in—will read now!

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Courtney Weiss Smith @cweiss-smith.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

“Because where do poems come from if not other poems…”

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Courtney Weiss Smith @cweiss-smith.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

This is a fun thread. A short contemporary thing might be Terrance Hayes’ forward to the anthology of Golden Shovel poems. Talks about the genesis of the new poetic form in the experience of making his kids memorize a poem… www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt...

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The Golden Shovel Anthology: New Poems Honoring Gwendolyn Brooks | JSTOR

The Golden Shovel Anthologycelebrates the life and work of poet and civil rights icon Gwendolyn Brooks through a dynamic new poetic form, the Golden Shovel,…

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Courtney Weiss Smith @cweiss-smith.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Any ideas for great undergraduate-friendly scholarly readings to be paired with Midsummer Night’s Dream on an introduction to the major course? (So a course not terribly historicist in general bent…) Also welcome ideas for fun theory readings that can stand alone to get prospective majors excited?!

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Courtney Weiss Smith @cweiss-smith.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I’m thinking about all tongues in heaven across her book—and her prosody!

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Courtney Weiss Smith @cweiss-smith.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I’m about to submit the final version of my book: coming soon! <but first all those hitting-send 🦋 🦋 🦋…>

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Courtney Weiss Smith @cweiss-smith.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

I keep hearing Pope! At Timon's Villa let us pass a Day, Where all cry out, "What Sums are thrown away!… His Study? with what Authors is it stor'd? In Books, not Authors, curious is my Lord… Lo some are Vellom, and the rest as good For all his Lordship knows, but they are Wood.

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Courtney Weiss Smith @cweiss-smith.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

I truly don’t know how common or rare this kind of thing is—in my case, as ever, I’m deeply grateful to amazing librarians who can move mountains to make things possible :)

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Courtney Weiss Smith @cweiss-smith.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Oh yes I don’t mean we should imprison books but that everyone everywhere should get access to books :)

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Courtney Weiss Smith @cweiss-smith.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

It’s one thing to read poems in our textbook and a completely different thing to encounter them as readers would have encountered them in 1639, 1717, or 1827. CPE students did sophisticated work exploring how the materiality of a poem’s text impacts its interpretation.

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Courtney Weiss Smith @cweiss-smith.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

You all, it was a *huge* success. My students had a beautiful encounter with historical books that don’t ever leave Special Collections. Here is an English professor, two librarians, and a prison educator with a trunkful of rare 17-18thc books! More books in prison! Library access for everyone!

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Courtney Weiss Smith @cweiss-smith.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Just had our last planning meeting; ready to take this show on the road, literally.

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Courtney Weiss Smith @cweiss-smith.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

I’m so excited! This week in my @wesleyanuniversity.bsky.social Center for Prison Education course—rare books! I’ve been working with our amazing Special Collections librarians to facilitate bringing some early editions of 17th, 18th, and 19th century poetry into the prison…

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Courtney Weiss Smith @cweiss-smith.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Just had our last planning meeting; time to take this show on the road, literally!

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Courtney Weiss Smith @cweiss-smith.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

(I’m fixing in my book to go on and on about her prosody and understandings of poetic form and I promise not to attribute anything new to her at all—just to close read the poetics that are there! 🔥 )

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Courtney Weiss Smith @cweiss-smith.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

I can’t wait to read this word in print!!!!

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Monica Carol Miller @monicacmiller.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

6/26/26 Palindrome Day

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