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.[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.

Professor Elaine Treharne of Stanford University in 2019