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Elaine Treharne

|birth_date = |birth_place = Aberystwyth, Wales |workplaces = University of Leicester
Stanford University |alma_mater = University of Manchester
University of Liverpool |thesis_title = Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, 303, and the Old English Lives of Saints Margaret, Giles, and Nicholas |thesis_year = 1992 |doctoral_advisor = D. G. Scragg |discipline = History |sub_discipline = }}

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. 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. 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 to 2005. Treharne was made a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales in April 2020. She is the President of the Teachers of Old English in Britain and Ireland (2022-2025). Provided by Wikipedia