Elaine Treharne

Elaine Treharne was born in Aberystwyth, Wales, in 1964. 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 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.