professor Elaine Treharne | |
|---|---|
 Treharne in 2019 | |
| Born | 1964 (age 60–61) Aberystwyth, Wales |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Manchester University of Liverpool |
| Thesis | Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, 303, and the Old English Lives of Saints Margaret, Giles, and Nicholas (1992) |
| Doctoral advisor | D. G. Scragg |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | History |
| Sub-discipline | |
| Institutions | University of Leicester Stanford University |
Elaine M. Treharne 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]
