Roanoke Colonies Research Newsletter
Volume 8, Numbers 1 & 2 (November 2002/ May 2003)

Announcements and Queries

Not mentioned above, but to receive more attention in the next issue of the Roanoke Colonies Research Newsletter, is Laurence Avery’s new edition of Paul Green’s symphonic drama The Lost Colony (Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 2001). Available as a paperback, Avery adds an introduction which, among other things, describes his experiences observing behind the scenes at a production of the drama. Avery also addresses the problems in deciding on a base text for a drama that went through and continues to go through changes on a regular basis.

Carter Hudgins, formerly with the Jamestown Rediscovery project, is now working on his PhD at Royal Holloway, University of London. His doctoral research concerns Elizabethan copper industries and their relationship with New World settlement ventures. He is interested in locating materials about the excavations done at the Fort Raleigh National Historic site, particularly copper and brass finds, as well as any material related to metallurgical production and or experamentation. Hudgins can be contacted at <C.Hudgins@rhul.ac.uk>.

A new publication, Early American Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, is being published semiannually by the McNeil Center for Early American Studies. The journal will offer a sampling of recent work presented at the Center’s programs along with occasional pieces commissioned to survey important aspects in history, literary studies, art history and material culture, and other fields examining America before 1850. Of interest to those examining Roanoke colonization is the article “Mapping and Inter-Cultural Contacts in Eastern North America, 1580-1650,” by Cynthia Van Zandt, scheduled to be published in the Fall 2003 issue. For subscription and other information, contact the McNeil Center for Early American Studies, University of Pennsylvania, 3619 Locust Walk, 3d Floor, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6213, or access the center’s website at <http://www.mceas.org/index.html>.

Additionally, the McNeil Center for Early American Studies will be holding a conference entitled “Lost Colonies” on March 26-27, 2004. The conference will focus on the many cases in which European colonial enterprises did not achieve their purpose between 1450 and 1850. Though the deadline for the call for papers has passed, people interested in attending can find out more through the center’s web site at <http://www.mceas.org/index.html>.

The Forum on European Expansion and Global Interaction (F.E.E.G.I.) will hold its next meeting at the John Carter Brown Library in Providence, Rhode Island, on February 20-21, 2004. For more information, see the F.E.E.G.I. website at <www.yorku.ca/nhp/feegi/>.

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