Chancellor Professor of English, Emeritus
I edited three volumes of Swinburne's correspondence (supplement here) as well as several lost works by William Sharp/Fiona Macleod. And in editing a notebook of mostly unpublished poems by the winner of the 1887 Newdigate Prize at Oxford, Sidney A. Alexander, I have moved Alexander from oblivion to obscurity.
In retirement I continue my research interests in local history and William and Mary history (especially, in conjunction with the Lemon Project, slavery at the College); I focus on the century forgotten (or, rather, erased) in Williamsburg-- the 19th Century.
I'm also working on the only poet who has ever been a president of William and Mary, William Dawson; on the 18th C. Bray School for black children, the subject of a recent archeological dig (more on the school here); on a 1773 letter by "Academicus" possibly by Jefferson (but more likely by the Rev. James Madison); and on the Williamsburg years and poetry of Virginia Hamilton Adair, who taught briefly in the Department. I have forthcoming a piece arguing that Jefferson favored at least some education for blacks, something most modern students of Jefferson don't believe.
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About Terry Meyers
I edited three volumes of Swinburne's correspondence (supplement here) as well as several lost works by William Sharp/Fiona Macleod. And in editing a notebook of mostly unpublished poems by the winner of the 1887 Newdigate Prize at Oxford, Sidney A. Alexander, I have moved Alexander from oblivion to obscurity.
In retirement I continue my research interests in local history and William and Mary history (especially, in conjunction with the Lemon Project, slavery at the College); I focus on the century forgotten (or, rather, erased) in Williamsburg-- the 19th Century.
I'm also working on the only poet who has ever been a president of William and Mary, William Dawson; on the 18th C. Bray School for black children, the subject of a recent archeological dig (more on the school here); on a 1773 letter by "Academicus" possibly by Jefferson (but more likely by the Rev. James Madison); and on the Williamsburg years and poetry of Virginia Hamilton Adair, who taught briefly in the Department. I have forthcoming a piece arguing that Jefferson favored at least some education for blacks, something most modern students of Jefferson don't believe.