Elaine Treharne

professor
Elaine Treharne
FSAFRHistSFLSW
Treharne in 2019
Born1964 (age 61–62)
Aberystwyth, Wales
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of ManchesterUniversity of Liverpool
ThesisCorpus Christi College, Cambridge, 303, and the Old English Lives of Saints Margaret, Giles, and Nicholas (1992)
Doctoral advisorD. G. Scragg
Academic work
DisciplineHistory
Sub-discipline
InstitutionsUniversity of LeicesterStanford University

Elaine M. TreharneFSAFRHistS FEA FLSW was born in Aberystwyth, Wales, in 1964. She is a Senior Associate Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education and the Roberta Bowman Denning Professor of the Humanities, Professor of English, Courtesy Professor of German Studies and of Comparative Literature, and a Bass Fellow in Undergraduate Education at Stanford University.[1][2][3] She was at the University of Leicester for eighteen years as a lecturer, then professor, head of department, and dean, before emigrating to the USA.[4] She is a Welsh medievalist, focusing on Manuscript Studies, Early English literature,[5][6] and the History of Text Technologies, particularly of the handmade book.[7] She led Stanford University's online courses on manuscript study entitled Digging Deeper.[8] She is a qualified archivist, and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries[9] a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society,[10] and an Honorary Fellow of the English Association,[11] for whom she was also the first woman chair and President from 2000 to 2005.[12] Treharne was made a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales in April 2020.[13] She is the President of the Teachers of Old English in Britain and Ireland (2022–2025).[14]

Monographs

Editions, co-authored books, and co-edited volumes

  • (with Benjamin Albritton, Deadra Fuzzell, Luca Messarra and Lauren Selden) The Handmade Book (2022)
  • (with Orietta Da Rold) Cambridge Companion to British Medieval Manuscripts (2020)
  • (with Benjamin Albritton and Georgia Henley) Medieval Manuscripts in the Digital Age (2020)
  • (with Claude Willan) Text Technologies: A History (2019)
  • (with Greg Walker) Textual Distortion (2017)
  • (with David F. Johnson) Reading Medieval Literature: Interpretations of Old and Middle English Texts (2005)
  • (with Susan Rosser) Early Medieval English Texts and Interpretations: Studies Presented to Donald G. Scragg (2003)
  • Writing Gender and Genre in Medieval Literature: Approaches to Old and Middle English Texts, Essays and Studies (2002)
  • (with Phillip Pulsiano) The Blackwell Companion to Anglo-Saxon Literature (2001)
  • (with Phillip Pulsiano) Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts and Their Heritage (1998)
  • The Old English Life of St Nicholas with the Old English Life of St Giles (1997)

Textbooks and anthologies

  • (with Greg Walker)The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Literature (2010)
  • Old and Middle English, An Anthology, 800–1450, 3rd ed. (2009)
  • Old and Middle English Poetry, Blackwell Essential Literature (2002)
  • (with J. Coleman) A History of English Language: Sourcebook (1998)

References

  1. ^"Elaine Treharne". Stanford University. Retrieved 20 June 2014.
  2. ^"Three faculty appointed as Senior Associate Vice Provosts". Retrieved 17 October 2022.
  3. ^"Elaine Treharne and Dan Edelstein appointed Stanford Bass University Fellows in Undergraduate Education – Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis". cesta.stanford.edu. 31 October 2018. Retrieved 7 October 2019.
  4. ^"Professor Elaine Treharne". Archived from the original on 15 July 2014. Retrieved 20 June 2014.
  5. ^https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5XIA0oKHNM&t=267s including filming with Eddie Izzard
  6. ^Treharne, Elaine. "Treharne—The Shock of the Old: Early English and its Modern Re-Tellings". heroicage.org. Retrieved 7 October 2019.
  7. ^"The History of the Book and the Digital Word with Elaine Treharne". 6 February 2014. Retrieved 7 October 2019 – via YouTube.
  8. ^"VPTL Reorganized into Separate Units | Stanford Center for Professional Development".
  9. ^https://www.sal.org.uk/ The Society of Antiquaries
  10. ^https://royalhistsoc.org/ The Royal Historical Society, London
  11. ^"List of Fellows — University of Leicester". University of Leicester. Archived from the original on 17 April 2021. Retrieved 7 October 2019.
  12. ^"Centenary History – The English Association One Hundred Years On — University of Leicester". University of Leicester. Archived from the original on 31 May 2019. Retrieved 14 June 2019.
  13. ^Wales, The Learned Society of. "Elaine Treharne". The Learned Society of Wales. Retrieved 27 October 2021.
  14. ^Ireland, Teachers of Old English in Britain and. "Elaine Treharne". Retrieved 23 November 2022.
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