Elaine Treharne in England

Professor Elaine Treharne, a native of Wales, joined the Stanford faculty in 2012 in the School of Humanities and Sciences as a professor of English. In 2022, she became the Senior Associate Vice-Provost for Undergraduate Education. She is the director of Stanford Text Technologies and the former director of Stanford’s Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis and of the Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies. Her main research focuses on early medieval British manuscripts, Medieval English religious poetry and prose, and the history of handwriting. Included in that research is her current project, reappraising women scribes in the high Middle Ages; and writing a new book on working with early manuscripts. In 2021, she published Perceptions of Medieval Manuscripts: The Phenomenal Book with Oxford University Press.

On our program, Professor Treharne will guide our discussions of some of the great—and lesser-known—writers of English Gothic literature and their influence on our culture and imaginations, which continues to this day. Authors to be discussed include the Brontë sisters, Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker, Henry James, Sheridan Le Fanu, and Horace Walpole.

At Stanford:

• Roberta Bowman Denning Professorship in the Humanities, School of Humanities, since 2013

• Professor by courtesy of German studies, since 2013

• Professor of Comparative Literature, since 2021

• Professor of English, since 2012

• Director, Stanford Text Technologies, since 2014

• Co-director, Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, 2013–2016

• Director of the Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis, 2016–2019

• Fellow of the science, technology and society interdisciplinary program, 2014–2018

• Fellow of the Clayman Institute for Gender Studies, 2021–2022

• Senior Associate Vice-Provost for Undergraduate Education, since 2022

• Recipient of Stanford's Lyman Award for outstanding faculty service to alumni.

Other Roles and Positions:

• President of the Teachers of Old English in Britain and Ireland, since 2021

• Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, since 2007

• Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, since 2008

• Fellow of the English Association, since 2016

• Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales, since 2020

• National Library of Wales, Trustee, since 2021

• At University of Leicester: affiliate faculty, 2009–2018; professor, medieval literature, 2002–2009; dean, faculty of arts, 2006; Head of Department of English, 2000–2004; co-director, medieval research center, 1998–2006

• Professor, Early English and Text Technologies, 2007–2012, Florida State University