Elaine Treharne

Elaine Treharne is Roberta Bowman Denning Professor of the Humanities, Professor of English, and Professor, by Courtesy, of German Studies at Stanford University.^[1] She is Visiting Professor of Medieval Literature at the University of Leicester.^[2] She is a Welsh medievalist, focusing on Manuscript Studies and Early English literature, up to 1300. She is also a text technologist, analyzing trends in text technological history from the earliest periods of traceable human communication to the present day. She directs Stanford Text Technologies (https://texttechnologies.stanford.edu/). Treharne is 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.

Her books include the Oxford Very Short Introduction to Medieval Literature (Oxford University Press, 2015), Living Through Conquest: the Politics of Early English, 1020 to 1220 (Oxford University Press, 2012), The Production and Use of English Manuscripts 1060 to 1220 with Orietta Da Rold, Mary Swan, and Takako Kato (http://www.le.ac.uk/ee/em1060to1220/) (University of Leicester, 2010), Old and Middle English, An Anthology, 800-1450, 3rd ed. (Blackwell, 2009), Gluttons for Punishment: The Drunk and Disorderly in Old English Sermons, The Annual Brixworth Lecture, 2nd series, 6 (University of Leicester, 2007), A History of the English Association with William Baker and Helen Lucas (EA Publications, 2006), and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge I, Anglo‑Saxon Manuscripts in Microfiche Facsimile 11, with T. Graham, Raymond Grant, Peter Lucas (MRTS, Arizona, 2004).

References

1. "Elaine Treharne". Stanford University,. Retrieved 2014-06-20.
2. "Professor Elaine Treharne". Retrieved 2014-06-20.