Elaine Treharne

Elaine Treharne of Stanford University in 2019

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]

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