Unless you have an interest in 18th-century British literature, you probably haven’t taken a class with Assistant Professor of English Courtney Weiss Smith. If that’s the case, however, you are missing out. Weiss Smith is currently writing a book and co-editing a collection while also teaching two classes—one course on poetry and the other a section of the required gateway course for the English major. Weiss Smith sat down with The Argus to discuss agricultural poetry, cultural history, and “science-y stuff.”