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College of William and Mary Curriculum Vitae Standard Format July 2009 Personal Information: Terry L. Meyers Department of English Tucker 123 (from Sept. 2009: Tyler 329) College of William and Mary Williamsburg, VA 23187 Phone:
757-221-3932; Fax: 757-221-1844; tlmeye@wm.edu 645 Fairfax Way Williamsburg, VA 23185 757-253-0707 Professor of English Education: Université de Paris, certificat de
langue française, 1963 Lawrence University A.B. (English) 1967 University of Chicago M.A. (English; with honors) 1968 University of Chicago Ph.D.
(English; Dissertation: “Swinburne and Shelley”) 1973 Academic Positions: 1970-1973 Instructor in English, College of William and Mary 1973-1979 Assistant Professor of English, College of William and Mary 1979-1994 Associate Professor of English, College of William and Mary 1994-2009 Professor of English, College of William and Mary 2009- Chancellor Professor of English,
College of William and Mary 1981-1984 Associate Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, College
of William and Mary (Freshman/Transfer
Advising; Honors Program Startup and Administration, including successful Grant
Applications to NEH [$25,000] and Commonwealth Funds for Excellence; Transfer
Evaluation; Development and Administration of the Writing Program;
Establishment/Administration of Presidential Scholars Program; Coordination of
Funds for Excellence Application; Kenan Professor Selection; Concurrent Student
Program; Academic Requirements; International Studies; Publications Council; Degrees
Committee; etc. etc.) 1995-2001 Chair, English
Department, College of William and Mary 2006-2007 Associate Chair, English
Department, College of William and Mary 2007- Interim Chair, Philosophy Department, College of William and
Mary Honors, Prizes, and Awards: Ford Foundation Fellowship
(University of Chicago) NDEA Title IV Fellowship
(University of Chicago) Danforth Tutor (University of
Chicago) Alumni Fellow, College of William
and Mary, 1973-1974 Thomas Jefferson Teaching Award,
College of William and Mary, 1980 Faculty Speaker, Commencement
Candlelight Ceremony, 1979, 1981 Faculty Recognition Award, Swem
Library, Spring, 1993 Victorians Institute: Vice-President, 1976-1978 President, 1978-1980 Business Editor, Victorians
Institute Journal, 1977-1979 Reader, article on Swinburne for Victorian
Studies, 1976 Reader, article on Swinburne for Philological
Quarterly, 1978 Reader, book on Swinburne for
University of North Carolina Press, 1979 (invited
later by Duke University Press to read the same manuscript) Reader, PBK Competition entry (Letters
of Tennyson), University of Virginia, 1982 Reader, literature textbook for St.
Martin’s Press, 1983 Reader, AP English Exams, ETS,
1972-1984 Reader, preliminary AP English
Exams, January, 1987 Reviewer for NEH, a proposal for a
conference at Yale, “Byron and the Drama of English Romanticism,”
Spring, 1989 Reviewer for NEH, a proposal for a
conference at the New York Public Library on “International Bicentennial Conference on Percy Bysshe Shelley,” Spring, 1991 Reviewer for NEH, grant proposal to
support an edition of the collected letters of Christina Rossetti,
Fall, 1994 Reader, article on Swinburne for Victorian
Poetry, 1997 Reviewer for NEH, grant proposal to
support an edition of the collected works of P.B. Shelley, Fall, 1997 Reader, article on Ruskin letters
for Victorians Institute Journal, 1999 Reader, book proposal (Education,
Victorian Archive Series), Oxford University Press, 2001 Reader, article on Swinburne for Victorian
Poetry, 2001 Evaluator for Yale University Press
on a proposal for a Selections from Swinburne, 2003 Reader of an article on James
Branch Cabell at W&M for an American Literature journal ed. by Susan
Donaldson Reader, article on Swinburne for Victorians
Institute Journal, 2006 Courses Taught: English 101/Writing 101 Writing English 101-102 Introduction to Literature
and Composition English 150W Poetry of Robert and
Elizabeth Barrett Browning English 150W Tennyson, Swinburne, and
Hardy English 201-202 British Literature English 201 The Art of Literature English 204 Major English Writers, 18th and 19th
Centuries English 204 British Literature II English 208 Contemporary Literature English 301 Critical Reading and
Writing English 301 Advanced Writing English 341 English Romantic Period English 342 The Victorian Age English 352 Twentieth Century British Literature English 436 Aspects of the European Novel English 436 The World Novel English 475 Senior Seminar: 1) Pre-Raphælite and
Decadent Poets; 2) The Aesthetic Mode; 3) Tennyson
and the Pre-Raphaelite Poets English 480 Independent Studies (American Short
Stories, 1920’s; Thomas Hardy; Swinburne) English 494 Junior Honors Seminar (Tennyson and the
Pre-Raphælites) English 495-496 Honors (Rhymers’ Club Books;
Wallace Stevens; Tennyson; William Morris [2];
Hardy[2]; Carlyle and Morris; Robert Browning) English 561 Tennyson and the Pre-Raphælites English 580 Readings (Shelley and Blake) College Course 301 Challenges to Tradition: The Late
Victorian Age (team
taught, interdisciplinary course) S.T.E.P (Summer Transition
Enrichment Program for minority students) Completed M.A. Theses Supervised:
approximately 12), including theses on Swinburne, Tennyson, William Morris,
D.G. Rossetti, Christina Rossetti, and Wilde Fellowships and Grants: ACLS Grant-in-Aid, Summer, 1975
(est. $1100) NEH Summer Stipend, Summer, 1987
(est. $3700) NEH Travel To Collections Grant,
Spring, 1990 ($750) Faculty Research Assignments,
College of William and Mary, 1974; 1990; 2001-2002 Summer Research Grants, College of
William and Mary, 1974, 1975, 1987 (declined); 1988, 1989, 1992, 1994 (not
funded) Research: a) Refereed Publications: “Swinburne’s Later Opinion of
Arnold,” English Language Notes, 10 (December, 1972), 118-122. “Swinburne: Four More Letters.” Notes
and Queries, n.s. 21 (June, 1974), 216-217. “An Interview with Tennyson on
Poe,” Tennyson Research Bulletin, 29(November, 1975), 167-168. “Shelley’s Influence on Atalanta
in Calydon,” Victorian Poetry, 14 (Summer, 1976), 150-154. “Two Swinburne Letters.” Notes and Queries, n.s. 23
(February, 1976), 63-66. “Shelley and Swinburne’s Aesthetic
of Melody,” Papers on Language and Literature, 14 (Summer, 1978),
284-295. “Further Swinburne Letters,” Notes
and Queries, n.s. 26/27(August, 1979; June 1980), 313-326; 221-226. “Swinburne’s Conception of
Shelley,” The Pre-Raphælite Review, 3 (May, 1980), 36-47. “Swinburne’s Speech to the Royal
Literary Fund, May 2, 1866,” Modern Philology, 86(November, 1988),
195-201. “‘A Magnificent Find If Genuine’: A
Possible Portrait of Shelley--From the Workshop of H. Buxton Forman?,” Keats-Shelley
Journal, 38 (1989), 82-102. “G. O. Trevelyan: Morality and the ‘Cambridge University Boat
of 1860,’“ Victorians Institute
Journal, 18 (1990), 185-187. “An Interview with William Morris,
September, 1885: His Arrest and Freedom of Speech,” Victorians Institute
Journal, 19(1991), 189-195. “Oscar Wilde and Williamsburg,
Virginia,” Notes and Queries, n.s. 38(September, 1991), 328-329. Now
scholarship, once satire: “Oscar
Wilde and Williamsburg: A Study,” The Review: College of William and Mary, 17 (Fall, 1978), 13-14. “Swinburne, Shelley, and Songs
before Sunrise,” The Whole
Music of Passion, ed. Nicholas Shrimpton and Rikky Rooksby (Aldershot,
England: Scolar Press, 1993). pp.
40-51. “Swinburne Shapes His Grand Passion:
A Version by ‘Ashford Owen.’” Victorian Poetry 31:1 (Spring, 1993),
113-117. “Two Poems by Swinburne: ‘Milton’
and On Wagner’s Music.” Victorian Poetry 31:2 (Summer, 1993),
203-209. See too “Swinburne on
Wagner’s Music: A Misattribution.” Victorian Poetry, 37:4 (Winter 1999), 551. “Swinburne’s Copyright: Gone
Missing.”Victorian Poetry 31:2 (Summer, 1993), 210; “Found: Swinburne’s Copyright,” Victorian
Poetry, 33:1 (Spring, 1995), 188. “Second Thoughts On Rossetti:
Tennyson’s Revised Letter of October 12, 1882.” Tennyson Research Bulletin (November, 1993), 2-5. “Swinburne and Whitman: Further
Evidence.” Walt Whitman
Quarterly Review, 14:1 (Summer 1996), 1-11. “’Before the beginning of years’: A
Swinburne Curiosity.” Victorian
Poetry, 37:4 (Winter 1999), 546-548. “Algernon Charles Swinburne,” The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature, vol. IV, ed. Joanne Shattuck. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 1999. Cols. 817-837. “An Attack on Lowell at the 1900
MLA Convention: A Poe Supporter Appeals to Swinburne,” Poe Studies / Dark
Romanticism, 35 (2002), 66-70. “John Nichol’s Visit to Virginia, 1865: ‘The James River.’” Victorians
Institute Journal, 30 (2002), 140-153. “A Note on Swinburne and Whitman,” Walt
Whitman Quarterly Review, 21:1 (Summmer 2003), 38-39. “Several Letters by Tennyson and
His Family,” Tennyson Research Bulletin, 8:2 (November 2003), 111-117. “William Morris on Prostitution: A
Letter of August 17, 1885.” Victorians Institute Journal, 31(2003),
[207]-208. “On Drink and Faith: Swinburne and John Nichol at Oxford.” Review of English
Studies, ns 55:220 (June 2004),392-424. http://www3.oup.co.uk/revesj/hdb/Volume_55/Issue_220/ “A Manuscript of Swinburne’s ‘The
Garden of Proserpine.’” Yale University Library Gazette (October 2005),
145-155. See too “Swinburne’s ‘The
Garden of Proserpine,’” YULG, (April 2006).101. “The First Printings of Swinburne’s
‘Reverse’ and ‘The Turning of the Tide,’ Notes and Queries,
53:3(September 2006), 342-343. “Swinburne’s ‘Will Drew and Phil
Crewe & Frank Fane,’” The Book Collector, 56:1 (Spring 2007), 31-33. b) Edited Volumes: Scholarly
Editions: The Sexual Tensions of William
Sharp: A Study of the Birth of Fiona Macleod, Incorporating Two Lost Works,
“Ariadne in Naxos” and “Beatrice.” New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 1996. Reviewed by Flavia Alaya, Victorian
Poetry, 35:2 (Summer 1997), 236-239 and Franklin E. Court, Victorian
Studies 40:4 (Summer 1997), 742-744. See also “Pagans and Paganism,”
The Oscholars, March 2002. http://www.oscholarship.com/TO/Archive/Ten/Oscholars_10.htm An excerpt from The Sexual
Tensions of William Sharp: A Study of the Birth of Fiona MacLeod (1996). Uncollected Letters of Algernon
Charles Swinburne, 3 vols. London: Pickering and Chatto, 2005. Reviewed by Rikky Rooksby, Victorian
Poetry, 43:2 (Summer 2005), 266-274; by Richard Frith, Journal of William Morris Studies (Summer and Winter, 2005, 144-148; by Margot Louis, The Journal of
Pre-Raphaelite Studies, 14 (Fall 2005), 115-118; and by Catherine Maxwell, The Yearbook of English Studies, 36: 2, (July 2006),
275-277. See too The Year’s Work in English Studies 86(June
2007), 746-747. A brief review by
Margot Louis appears in Victorian
Poetry, 43:3(Fall 2005), 384. Richard Manning Bucktrout Daybook
and Ledger. Swem Library, College of William and Mary [2008]. On-line
edition. http://www.swem.wm.edu/archives/collections/bucktrout/index.cfm (Life and Death in Williamsburg,
Virginia 1855-1867) ; co-edited with Carol Kettenburg
Dubbs. e) Invited Papers and Talks: on the Pre-Raphælites and Simeon
Solomon, Johns Hopkins University Friends of the Library 1978 on Swinburne, Georgetown University
Friends of the Library 1980 on Swinburne and Parody,
Philological Association of the Carolinas, Charleston, March 1986 on editing Swinburne’s letters,
Friends of Swem Library, September 1994 on editing Victorian Poets,
Christopher Wren Association, November 1995 on Swinburne, Christopher Wren
Association, Town and Gown, April 2004 on the Dudley Digges House,
Williamsburg Historical Records Association, May 2005 on black education in Williamsburg,
1865, the Williamsburg Civil War Roundtable, April 2006 on the Dudley Digges House,
Williamsburg Middle Plantation Club, May 2006; also York County Historical
Society on slavery at William and Mary,
Williamsburg Middle Plantation Club, October 2008. on the Williamsburg years and
poetry of Virginia Hamilton Adair (1913-2004), English Club 2009 (scheduled) on Swinburne’s letters, Plenary
Speaker, Swinburne Conference, London, July 2009 on Swinburne’s Funeral, The
Farringford Tennyson Society, Isle of Wight July 2009 g) Reviews: review essay of Philip Henderson, Swinburne:
Portrait of a Poet, Journal of English and Germanic Philology, 75
(July, 1976), 456-458. review of Kirk H. Beetz, Algernon
Charles Swinburne A Bibliography of Secondary Works, 1861-1980, Literary
Research Newsletter, 8 (Spring, 1983), 84-87. review of Margaret A. Lourie, The
Defence of Guenevere by William Morris, Victorians Institute Journal,
12 (1984), 147-150. review of Antony Harrison, Swinburne’s
Medievalism: A Study in Victorian Love Poetry, The Daily Press and
Times- Herald, May 22, 1988,
Arts Section, p. 16. review of James Richardson, Vanishing
Lives: Style and Self in Tennyson, D.G. Rossetti, Swinburne and Yeats, English
Literature in Transition, 32:3 (September, 1989), 529-532. review of Mark Samuels Lasner, A
Bibliography of Enoch Soames, 1862-1897, Victorian Poetry, 37:4
(Winter 1999), 555. review of Michael Matthew Kaylor, Secreted
Desires: The Major Uranians: Hopkins, Pater, and Wilde, Victorians Institute
Journal, 35 (2007), 315-316. j) Un-refereed Publications: transcription for Shelley (a
miniature book; [Worcester, Mass.: St. Onge, 1973]). rpt.,
“‘Shelley’: A Poem by Swinburne” Keats-Shelley Journal, 24 (1978),
171-172. “Swinburne Footnote.” Literary
Sketches, 14 (Mid-Summer, 1974), 7-9. “Swinburne.” The Alumni Gazette, William and Mary,
49 (January/February, 1982), 9-14. “Swinburne, Algernon Charles,” The
Encyclopedia of Unbelief, ed. Gordon Stein (Buffalo: Prometheus Books,
1985). “Shelley, Percy Bysshe,” The
Encyclopedia of Unbelief, ed. Gordon Stein (Buffalo: Prometheus Books,
1985). “Comments on Amy Clampitt’s
‘Matoaka,’” William and Mary Magazine, 61:5 (Winter, 1994), 60-61. “An Allusion to Donne in Hardy’s
‘Drawing Details In an Old Church,’” The Thomas Hardy Journal, 13:3 (October 1997), 94-95. “The Silence of the Graves.” Virginia
Gazette. May 21, 28; June 3,
1998. See
also: “Williamsburg’s Forgotten Graves.” Williamsburg Reunion: 1960 and Before. [ed. Will
Molineaux, (Williamsburg: Old Williamsburg Reunion, 2000)], 4 pp. Both articles online: http://www.geocities.com/quantpsy/williamsburg/articles.htm Untitled contribution (on
forgotten Williamsburg burial grounds), Colonial Williamsburg: The Journal
of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Spring 2002, p. 8. “The First Amendment: Recently Deceased, in Virginia,” Academe,
September-October 2002, 28-32. http://www.aaup.org/AAUP/pubsres/academe/2002/SO/Feat/Meye.htm “Athletic
Fees: Too High, Too Hidden,” Daily Press, December 29, 2003, p. A9. “This Old House: Moved, Mislabeled, and Misplaced, Building
at the College dates to 1700s,” The Virginia Gazette, June 19, 2004, pp. 1A, 12A-13A. http://www.geocities.com/quantpsy/williamsburg/other/other178.htm A scholarly version is
available at CW’s Rockefeller Library and at Swem Library. “Forgotten
History: An Abolitionist Visited Williamsburg in 1866 to Record the Stories of
Newly Freed Slaves,” The Virginia Gazette, October 20, 2004, p.
1C. http://www.geocities.com/quantpsy/williamsburg/other/other201.htm “Higher Education’s Dirty Little
Secret,” Cross-Talk, January 2006, p. 12. (commissioned by the editor) http://www.highereducation.org/crosstalk/ct0106/voices0106-meyers.shtml “Tales from the Crypt: Historic
Burials at the College of William and Mary,” Reunion, October 2006. “This Old House.” William and
Mary Alumni Magazine, 73:2 (Winter 2007-2008, 44-45. On the Alumni House as an antebellum
building. http://www.wmalumni.com/magazine/wint_0708/feature_3.shtml “A First Look at the Worst: Slavery
and Race Relations at the College of William and Mary.” William and Mary
Bill of Rights Journal, 16:4 (April 2008), 1141-1168. See ssrn: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1068921 “When the College Rebuked the
Klan,” Virginia Gazette, October 21, 2008, pp. 1+. Reprinted from Reunion 2008
(Williamsburg, Va: 2008). “Historic Structure Report for the
Prince Street House, Also Known as Brown Hall and the Dudley Digges House; The
College of William and Mary in Virginia,” by Daniel Kurt Ackermann [March
1909]. Title
page acknowledgement as Investigator and Contributor. See
http://dspace.swem.wm.edu/jspui/handle/10288/1274 k. Research Report, Contract report for Norton Publishers:
“Typographical Errors in Jude the Obscure, A Norton Critical Edition (1978),” 1990. n. Work in Progress or Submitted edition of unpublished early
notebooks of Swinburne essay on Tennyson and Pater Update to DAR Local Cemetery
Reports, forthcoming (an account of the Confederate section of Cedar Grove
Cemetery) Co-editor, special issue on
Swinburne of Victorian Poetry, Winter 2009 Swinburne entry for the forthcoming
Victorian Literature Handbook, ed. Buntley and Williams. Complete Poems of Swinburne. This multi-volume project has been
commissioned by Chatto and Pickering, London, and I have tentatively committed
to be co-editor. Edition of the unpublished poems of
Sidney Alexander (1866-1948). Essay on the Williamsburg years and
poetry of Virginia Hamilton Adair (1913-2004) Professional Service: College Committee Service: Faculty Affairs Committee,
1980-1981, 2004-7 (Chair, 2005-2007) Library Committee, 1979-1981 Library Policy Advisory Committee,
Chair (1984-88) Faculty Compensation Board,
1985-87; 1990- 93 (chair, 1990-1991) Academic Status Committee,
1975-1978, 1979; Chair, 1976-1978 Orientation, Advising, and Freshman
Year Committee, 1978-1984 Board of Student Affairs, 1979 Facilities Scheduling Committee,
1979-1984 Self-Study Sub-Committee, Student
Life and Organizations Search Committees: Library (Reader Services, 1979; University
Librarian, chair, 1985-1986) ILL-Reference Librarian (1988); University
Communications (Director, 1981 [two searches]); Director, International Studies
(1983) Evaluation Committees: Library
(including chair, Library Director), Psychological Services, Registrar’s,
Student Affairs, Development Office Interview Committees: Student
Affairs, Registrar’s, Admissions, several times Student Interviews: Overseas Study
Awards, several times Library Committee, Future of the
Catalogue, 1978-1979 Library Addition Advisory
Committee, 1984-1985 Admissions Policy Committee,
1984-88; Subcommittee on Special Admissions, 1984-88 Educational Policy Committee,
1987-1990; Chair, Spring, 1988, 1988-1989, Acting Chair, Fall, 1989 Assessment Steering Committee
(1988-90), General Education Sub-Committee (1988-90); Resources Allocation and
Planning Committee (1988-89); Ad hoc Committee on Enrollment/Disenrollment; Working Group on Growth; review committee for Wilson Interdisciplinary
Fellowships; Interview Committee,
Marshall Fellowships; School of Education Advisory Committee Promotion, Retention, Tenure
Committee, Fall, 1987 Writing Committee, 1990-2001 Ad Hoc Committee, revision of
Faculty Hand Book on Retention, Promotion, Tenure, Fall, 1990 Curriculum Review, Sub-Committee on
Teaching, Spring-Fall, 1991 Self-Study Library Committee,
1993-1995 Sexual Harassment/Equal Opportunity
Committee, 1995-2004 Co-Chair, Dean’s Advisory Council,
1998 School of Education, Search
Committee in English Education (1999) Committee to Revisit the Strategic
Plan, 1999 Review
Committee, Dean Feiss (2000) Information
Technology Advisory Committee (2003- ) Review
Committee, Dean McCarthy (2004) Jefferson
Awards Committee (December 2004) Task
Force on Intercollegiate Athletics (2004-2005) (somewhat in this connection, I might mention my
success after several years' work on outing the Athletic Fee, which the Faculty
Assembly in December 2004 asked to be itemized with other fees in the Catalog;
the FA asked that bills include a direction to that itemization. My steps towards this result
included a Student Assembly Resolution in November 2003, interviews in USA
Today (February 2004;) in the Times Higher Education Supplement (April 2004), and a FAC resolution passed by the A&S Faculty (November
2004). Delegate
to the Faculty Assembly (2005-2008) (Executive Committee, 2005-2008; Liaison
Committee to Board of Visitors, 2005-2008). Subcommittees: Copar, Faculty Affairs. Athletic
Policy Advisory Committee, 2007- Working
Group on slavery/race relations at the College (2008- ) Departmental Governance (various dates): Chair (1995-2001) Associate Chair (2006-1007) Personnel Committee, chair Committee on the Improvement and
Evaluation of Teaching, chair Honors Committee (Director of
Honors) Self-Study Steering Committee Undergraduate Program Committee Director of Concentration Advising Library Committee, chair English Club, Coordinator Budget Committee ad hoc committee on the
tercentenary poem Miscellaneous presentations from
time to time (parents, new admits, etc.) Cloud Professorship Committee Other Professional Service: Advising: Freshman to 1984;
Concentrators since Arrangements, including Library
exhibit on William Morris, for Victorians Institute meeting, 1975 Arrangements for Victorian
Photographs Exhibit, Library, 1980 Parents’ Day Panel Discussion,
1979, 1987 Parents’ Day Talk on Poetry, 1980 Reader for AP English Exam, ETS,
1973-1984 Academic Advising Presentation to
OA’s/RA’s, 1983-1985 Faculty Coordinator, Freshman
Dormitory, 1979 Recruitment of gifted students,
1979-86 Talks to S.T.E.P. participants,
1984, 1985, 1994 Arrangements (chair), Victorians
Institute Meeting, 1986 Plaintiff, ACLU Suit on First
Amendment Rights and the Internet (In this
connection I’ve given several talks on the matter to classes in Higher
Education Administration in the School of Business and to a lunch meeting of
Monroe Scholars) Chair, SHARP Conference, July 2001,
session on “Success and Failure in Popular Publishing: Great Britain in the
18th and 19th Centuries” Tenure
Review for a candidate at Brown University (2005) Trustee, the Sumner G. Rand, Jr.
Foundation, Inc. (appointed by the Dean in 2000; the foundation supports the
performing arts at William and Mary Moderator
of a session, Scottish Studies Conference, Williamsburg, 2006 Professionally Relevant Community Activities: annual talk on the AP exam to AP
English, Lafayette High School, 1979-1984 talk on AP exam to AP English,
Bruton High School, 1982 Williamsburg Area Association for
the Gifted and Talented Treasurer/Membership
Chairman 1980-1981; President, 1981-1982; Board Member 1982-84; Lafayette
school representative, 1985-1986 Parent
Advisory Council for WJCC G/T Coordinator, 1978-1979 School Board Advisory Committee on
the G/T Program, 1983-1985 Board Member, Williamsburg
Bibliophiles (1985-89) Board Member, Friends of Swem
Library (1986-1991) community activities to encourage
neighborliness by the College Judge for the Williamsburg Junior
Women’s Club Scholarship, April 2002 Invited
participant in a local Civic Series sponsored by students on the
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