Professor Elaine Treharne, Professor, BA, PhD (Manchester), MArAd (Liverpool), specialises in late Old English and early Middle English manuscripts, their cultural contexts, contents and language. She is particularly interested in the palaeography and codicology (script and physical make-up) of these manuscripts, and the ways in which their medieval compilers selected and adapted English texts for specific contemporary audiences, and she teaches in these areas as part of FSU's History of Text Technologies program. This is a new and growing field of scholarly interest, and Professor Treharne is the Co-Director of the Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded Project, 'The Production and Use of English Manuscripts, 1060 to 1220', based in the Department of English at the University of Leicester (http://www.le.ac.uk/ee/em1060to1220/index.htm) where she is a Visiting Professor.

She is currently working on the theorization of the manuscript book, principally from the perspective of 'Architextuality', a concept which seeks to interpret the multiple layers of TEXT that contribute to the building of the book and the book as edifice. This has been the focus of a number of recent publications and conference papers and will form the basis for a major new project, tentatively entitled 'The Sensual Book'.

Professor Treharne is also a textual editor, and has published a number of books that reflect this work including The Old English Life of St Nicholas, and Old and Middle English: An Anthology (shortly to be published in its third edition). She will publish The Ideology of English Texts, 1000-1200 with OUP in 2010, a book which concentrates on language and identity and the status of English in the early medieval period; and she is co-editing the Oxford Handbook of Medieval Literature (OUP 2010) with Greg Walker. With Professor Walker, she is General Editor of the new OUP series Oxford Textual Perspectives, and she is also General Editor of Essays and Studies.

Professor Treharne is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, a member of The Bibliographical Society, and the Convenor of the English Association Special Interest Group in the History of Books and Texts (http://www.le.ac.uk/engassoc/fellows/book.html). She is a former Chair of the Teachers of Old English in Britain and Ireland; and former Chair and President of the English Association. She is the Medieval Editor for Review of English Studies, an Editor for Speculum, and Early Medieval Editor for Blackwell's Literature Compass.

MOST RECENT REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

Books

• Old and Middle English, An Anthology, 800-1500, 3rd ed. (Blackwell, 2009), ISBN 978 1 4051 8120 4
• Gluttons for Punishment: The Drunk and Disorderly in Old English Sermons, The Annual Brixworth Lecture, 2nd series, 6 (University of Leicester, 2007), ISBN 0954409256
• William Baker and Elaine Treharne with Helen Lucas, A History of the English Association (EA Publications, October 2006), ISBN 0900232250
• D. F. Johnson, and Elaine Treharne eds., Reading Medieval Literature: Interpretations of Old and Middle English Texts (Oxford University Press, 2005), ISBN 0 19 926163 6
• †Phillip Pulsiano and Elaine Treharne, eds., The Blackwell Companion to Anglo-Saxon Literature (Blackwell, paperback 2008), ISBN 1 405 17609 1
• Mary Swan and Elaine Treharne, eds., Rewriting Old English in the Twelfth Century, Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England 30 (CUP, paperback 2006), ISBN 0 521 03513 9
• Timothy Graham, Raymond J. S. Grant, Peter J. Lucas, and Elaine M. Treharne, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge I, Anglo Saxon Manuscripts in Microfiche Facsimile 11 (MRTS, Arizona, 2004)

Articles and Essays

• 'Making their Presence Felt: Readers of Ælfric, c. 1050-1350', in H. Magennis and M. Swan, ed., A Companion to Ælfric Brill's Companion to the Christian Tradition 18 (Brill, 2009), pp. 399-422.
• 'Manuscript Sources of Old English Poetry', in Gale Owen-Crocker, ed., Working with Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts (ExeterUP, 2009), pp. 88-111.
• 'The Architextual Editing of Early English', in A. G. Edwards and T. Takako, ed., Poetica 71 (2009), 1-13.
• 'The Bishop's Book: Leofric's Homiliary and Eleventh-Century Exeter', in Stephen Baxter, Catherine Karkov, Janet Nelson, David Pelteret, eds., Early Medieval Studies in Memory of Patrick Wormald (Ashgate, 2009), pp. 521-37.
• 'The Canonisation of Ælfric', in English Now, ed. Marianne Thormahlen Lund Studies in English (Lund, 2008), pp. 1-13.
• 'The Form and Function of the Vercelli Book', in A. Minnis and J. Roberts, ed., Text, Image, Interpretation: Studies in Anglo-Saxon Literature and Its Insular Context in Honour of Éamonn Ó Carragáin (Brepols, 2007), pp. 253-66.
• 'Bishops and their Texts in the later Eleventh Century: Worcester and Exeter', in Wendy Scase, ed., Essays in Manuscript Geography: Vernacular Manuscripts of the English West Midlands from the Conquest to the Sixteenth Century (Brepols, 2007), pp. 13-28.
• 'Categorization, Periodization: The Silence of (the) English in the Twelfth Century', in Rita Copeland, Wendy Scase and David Lawton, ed., New Medieval Literatures 8 (Brepols, 2007), pp. 248-75.
• 'The Invisible Woman: Ælfric and his Subject Female', in Mary Swan, ed., Essays for Joyce Hill on her Sixtieth Birthday, Leeds Studies in English 37, (Leeds, 2006), pp. 191-208.
• 'Reading from the Margins: The Uses of Old English Homiletic Manuscripts in the Post-Conquest Period', in A. N. Doane and K. Wolf, eds., Beatus Vir: Early English and Norse Manuscript Studies in Memory of Phillip Pulsiano (MRTS, 2006), pp. 329-58.
• 'The Life and Times of Old English Homilies for the First Sunday in Lent', in H. Magennis and J. Wilcox, ed., The Power of Words: Anglo-Saxon Studies Presented to Donald G. Scragg on His Seventieth Birthday (WVUP, 2006), pp. 205-42.
• 'Ælfric's Account of St Swithun: Literature of Reform and Reward', in E. M. Tyler and Ross Balzaretti, eds., Narrative and History in the Early Medieval West, Studies in the Early Middle Ages 16 (Brepols, 2006), pp. 167-88.
• 'The Life of English in the Mid-Twelfth Century: Ralph D'Escures's Homily on the Virgin Mary', in Ruth Kennedy and Simon Meecham-Jones, eds., Literature of the Reign of Henry II (Routledge, May 2006), pp. 169-86.
• 'Hiht wæs geniwad: Rebirth in The Dream of the Rood', in Catherine Karkov et al., eds., The Place of the Cross in Anglo-Saxon England (Boydell and Brewer, 2006), pp. 145-57.