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 edit
- 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 edit
- (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 edit
- (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 edit
References edit
- ^ "Elaine Treharne". Stanford University. Retrieved 2014-06-20.
- ^ "Three faculty appointed as Senior Associate Vice Provosts". Retrieved 17 October 2022.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "Professor Elaine Treharne". Retrieved 2014-06-20.
- ^ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5XIA0oKHNM&t=267s including filming with Eddie Izzard
- ^ Treharne, Elaine. "Treharne—The Shock of the Old: Early English and its Modern Re-Tellings". www.heroicage.org. Retrieved 7 October 2019.
- ^ "The History of the Book and the Digital Word with Elaine Treharne". YouTube. Retrieved 7 October 2019.
- ^ "VPTL Reorganized into Separate Units | Stanford Center for Professional Development".
- ^ https://www.sal.org.uk/ The Society of Antiquaries
- ^ https://royalhistsoc.org/ The Royal Historical Society, London
- ^ "List of Fellows — University of Leicester". www2.le.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 17 April 2021. Retrieved 7 October 2019.
- ^ "Centenary History - The English Association One Hundred Years On — University of Leicester". www2.le.ac.uk. Retrieved 14 June 2019.
- ^ Wales, The Learned Society of. "Elaine Treharne". The Learned Society of Wales. Retrieved 27 October 2021.
- ^ Ireland, Teachers of Old English in Britain and. "Elaine Treharne". Retrieved 23 November 2022.