Elaine Treharne

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Professor Elaine Treharne of Stanford University in 2019

Elaine Treharne was born in Aberystwyth, Wales, in 1964. She is the Roberta Bowman Denning Professor of the Humanities, Professor of English, Courtesy Professor of German Studies, and a Bass Fellow in Undergraduate Education at Stanford University.[1][2] She is Visiting Professor of Medieval Literature at the University of Leicester, where she worked for fifteen years as a lecturer, then professor, head of department, and dean, before emigrating to the USA.[3] She is a Welsh medievalist, focusing on Manuscript Studies, Early English literature,[4][5] and the History of Text Technologies, particularly of the handmade book.[6] She led Stanford University's successful online courses on manuscript study entitled Digging Deeper.[7] She is a qualified archivist, and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries[8] a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society,[9] and an Honorary Fellow of the English Association,[10] for whom she was also the first woman Chair and President from 2000-2005.[11] Treharne was made a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales,[12] in April 2020.

Books[]

  • (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)
  • Medieval Literature: A Very Short Introduction (2015)
  • (with Orietta Da Rold and Mary Swan) Producing and Using English Manuscripts in the Post-Conquest Period, New Medieval Literatures (Special Issue) 13 (2013)
  • Living Through Conquest: the Politics of Early English, 1020 to 1220 (2012)
  • (with Greg Walker)The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Literature (2010)
  • Old and Middle English, An Anthology, 800-1450, 3rd ed. (2009)
  • (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)
  • Old and Middle English Poetry, Blackwell Essential Literature (2002)
  • Vital Signs: The Future of English in Medieval Studies in Higher Education, Issues in English 2 (2002)
  • 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)
  • (with J. Coleman) A History of English Language: Sourcebook (1998)
  • The Old English Life of St Nicholas with the Old English Life of St Giles (1997)

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References[]

  1. ^ "Elaine Treharne". Stanford University. Retrieved 2014-06-20.
  2. ^ "Elaine Treharne and Dan Edelstein appointed Stanford Bass University Fellows in Undergraduate Education -- Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis". cesta.stanford.edu. Retrieved 7 October 2019.
  3. ^ "Professor Elaine Treharne". Retrieved 2014-06-20.
  4. ^ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5XIA0oKHNM&t=267s including filming with Eddie Izzard
  5. ^ Treharne, Elaine. "Treharne—The Shock of the Old: Early English and its Modern Re-Tellings". www.heroicage.org. Retrieved 7 October 2019.
  6. ^ "The History of the Book and the Digital Word with Elaine Treharne". Retrieved 7 October 2019.
  7. ^ "VPTL Reorganized into Separate Units | Stanford Center for Professional Development".
  8. ^ https://www.sal.org.uk/
  9. ^ https://royalhistsoc.org/
  10. ^ "List of Fellows — University of Leicester". www2.le.ac.uk. Retrieved 7 October 2019.
  11. ^ "Centenary History - The English Association One Hundred Years On — University of Leicester". www2.le.ac.uk. Retrieved 14 June 2019.
  12. ^ https://www.learnedsociety.wales/
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