Elaine Treharne
Welsh historian and academic
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Elaine M. Treharne 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]
professor Elaine Treharne | |
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Treharne in 2019 | |
| Born | 1964 (age 61–62) Aberystwyth, Wales |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Manchester University of Liverpool |
| Thesis | Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, 303, and the Old English Lives of Saints Margaret, Giles, and Nicholas (1992) |
| D. G. Scragg | |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | History |
Sub-discipline | |
| Institutions | University of Leicester Stanford University |
Monographs
- Perceptions of Medieval Manuscripts: The Phenomenal Book (2021)
- When is a Book Not a Book?
- Through Conquest: the Politics of Early English, 1020 to 1220 (2012)
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)
Introductory books
- Medieval Literature : A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2015)