Elaine Treharne Explained

Elaine Treharne MArAd FSA FRHistS 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

• Perceptions of Medieval Manuscripts: The Phenomenal Book (2021)
• Medieval Literature: A Very Short Introduction (2015)
• 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)

External links

• Stanford Text Technologies
• Stanford News
• When is a Book Not a Book?

Notes and References

1. Web site: Elaine Treharne . Stanford University . 2014-06-20 .
2. Web site: Three faculty appointed as Senior Associate Vice Provosts . 17 October 2022.
3. Web site: 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 . 7 October 2019.
4. Web site: Professor Elaine Treharne . 2014-06-20 .
5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5XIA0oKHNM&t=267s including filming with Eddie Izzard
6. Web site: Treharne . Elaine . Treharne—The Shock of the Old: Early English and its Modern Re-Tellings . www.heroicage.org . 7 October 2019.
7. Web site: The History of the Book and the Digital Word with Elaine Treharne . YouTube. 6 February 2014 . 7 October 2019 . en.
8. Web site: 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. Web site: List of Fellows — University of Leicester . www2.le.ac.uk . 7 October 2019 . en . 17 April 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210417112143/https://www2.le.ac.uk/offices/english-association/fellowship/list/ . dead .
12. Web site: Centenary History - The English Association One Hundred Years On — University of Leicester . www2.le.ac.uk . 14 June 2019 . en.
13. Web site: Wales . The Learned Society of . Elaine Treharne . The Learned Society of Wales . 27 October 2021.
14. Web site: Ireland . Teachers of Old English in Britain and . Elaine Treharne . 23 November 2022 . en.