Elaine Treharne
Elaine Treharne is from Aberystwyth in Wales. 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. 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. She is a Welsh medievalist, focusing on Manuscript Studies, Early English literature, and the History of Text Technologies, particularly of the handmade book. She led Stanford University's successful online courses on manuscript study entitled Digging Deeper. She is a qualified archivist, and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and an Honorary Fellow of the English Association, for whom she was also the first woman Chair and President from 2000-2005.. Treharne was made a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales, in April 2020.Books
- Text Technologies: A History
- Textual Distortion
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- Producing and Using English Manuscripts in the Post-Conquest Period, New Medieval Literatures 13
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- The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Literature
- Old and Middle English, An Anthology, 800-1450, 3rd ed.
- Reading Medieval Literature: Interpretations of Old and Middle English Texts
- Early Medieval English Texts and Interpretations: Studies Presented to Donald G. Scragg
- Old and Middle English Poetry, Blackwell Essential Literature
- Vital Signs: The Future of English in Medieval Studies in Higher Education, Issues in English 2
- Writing Gender and Genre in Medieval Literature: Approaches to Old and Middle English Texts, Essays and Studies
- The Blackwell Companion to Anglo-Saxon Literature
- Anglo Saxon Manuscripts and Their Heritage
- A History of English Language: Sourcebook
- The Old English Life of St Nicholas with the Old English Life of St Giles
