Elaine Treharne
Elaine Treharne, BA, MArAd, PhD, is Professor of Early English at Florida State University and Director of the History of Text Technologies Programme there. She is Co-Director of the AHRC-funded project, ‘The Production and Use of English Manuscripts, 1060 to 1220’, based at the Universities of Leicester and Leeds until 2010. Her major research interests are focused on Medieval Literature in its material context. In recent years, she has edited numerous early English texts in Old and Middle English: An Anthology (Blackwell) and edited The Old English Life of St Nicholas with the Old English Life of St Giles (Leeds). She has published numerous collections, including Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts and their Heritage (Ashgate) and the Blackwell Companion to Anglo-Saxon Literature (both with Phillip Pulsiano), Re-Reading Old English in the Twelfth Century (for CUP, with Mary Swan), Reading Medieval Literature (OUP, with David Johnson), and Writing Gender and Genre (Essays and Studies, Boydell and Brewer).
Her current projects include a book on Cnut: Anglo-Saxon King, Viking Emperor(Tempus, 2008); Living Through Conquest: The Ideology of Early English (OUP, in the series Oxford Textual Perspectives, 2008-09); the Oxford Handbook of Medieval Literature (OUP, 2009, with Greg Walker); and The Architextuality of English: English Manuscript Culture. Professor Treharne is early Medieval Editor for Literature Compass (Blackwell) and an Editor for Speculum (Medieval Academy of America). She is Chair of the Teachers of Old English in Britain and Ireland, Past-President of the English Association (for whom she co-wrote One Hundred Years of the English Association in 2006) and a past Vice-President of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists.