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Additional Resources:
Uncollected Letters of Swinburne
Virginia’s Rape of the First Amendment
Hidden Fees, Hidden College Costs
Life and Death in 19th C. Williamsburg
Slavery and Race Relations at W&M
Chancellor Professor of English Emeritus
E-mail: tlmeye@wm.edu
Background and Research and Teaching Interests
My undergraduate degree is from Lawrence University; my M.A. and Ph.D. are from the University of Chicago. I also studied at the Sorbonne. My main research interests have been in Victorian poetry, especially the nefariously subversive Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909). Here’s my favorite poem by ACS: text; video.
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 And in editing a notebook of mostly unpublished poems by the winner of the 1887 Newdigate Prize at Oxford, Sidney A. Alexander, I have moved Alexander from oblivion to obscurity.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 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’m the immediate past president of the Williamsburg Historic Records Association.
Many of my works are available at https://works.bepress.com/terry-meyers/
Personal
My late wife, Sheila, was a graduate of W&M, Class of ’78, and the best ever real estate agent in Williamsburg. Our daughter, Deborah Boyle, is a professor of philosophy at the College of Charleston, and our son, Blake Meyers, is a PI at the Danforth Plant Science Center and a professor in the Division of Plant Sciences at the University of Missouri–Columbia.
Looking for a good read? Two novelists in the family: try my father’s most recent prize-winning novel, The Death at Awahi, his new novel, A Hero of Brag, or any of my brother’s wickedly gripping works.
