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. 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).

She is currently working on a major new project entitled 'The Architextuality of Early English' which seeks to uncover the multiple meanings of TEXT in various manuscript contexts from c. 1000-1300. This has been the focus of a number of recent publications and conference papers and will form the basis for a research grant applications in the near future.

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 (now being revised for its third edition). She is currently writing The Ideology of English Texts, 1000-1200 in which she concentrates on language and identity and the status of English in the early medieval period; is co-editing the Oxford Handbook to Medieval Literature with Greg Walker; and is just finishing a short book on Cnut: Viking Emperor, Anglo-Saxon King.

Professor Treharne is the Convenor of the newly-founded English Association Special Interest Group in the History of Books and Texts (http://www.le.ac.uk/engassoc/fellows/book.html) and would welcome enquiries from any interested parties; she is Chair of the Teachers of Old English in Britain and Ireland; and immediate Past-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.

RECENT REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

• 'Periodization and Categorization: The Silence of (the) English in the Twelfth Century', in Rita Copeland, Wendy Scase and David Wallace, ed., New Medieval Literatures 8 (Brepols, 2007), pp. 248-75.
• 'The Invisible Woman: Ælfric and his Subject Female', in Leeds Studies in English 37 (2006), ed. Mary Swan, Essays for Joyce Hill on her Sixtieth Birthday (Leeds, 2006), pp. 191-208.
• 'Post-Conquest Readers of Old English', in A. N. Doane and K. Wolf, eds., Essays in Memory of Phillip Pulsiano (MRTS, Arizona, 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: Morgantown, 2006), pp. 207-42.
• 'The Political Implications of the Life of St Swithun', in E. M. Tyler and Ros Balzaretti, eds., History and Narrative in the Middle Ages (Brepols, 2006), pp. 167-88.
• 'The Life of English in the Mid-Twelfth Century: Ralph D'Escures' 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.
• 'Producing a Library in Late Anglo-Saxon England: Exeter, 1050-72', Review of English Studies ns 54 (2003), pp. 155-72.
• 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) [manuscript descriptions at pp. 48-74].
• E. M. Treharne, ed., Old and Middle English: An Anthology, 2nd ed. (Blackwell, 2003), 678 pp., ISBN ISBN 140511312X (hb), 1405113138 (pb).
• E. M. Treharne, ed., The Old English Life of St Nicholas with the Old English Life of St Giles, Leeds Texts and Monographs 15 (Leeds, 1997), 218 pp., ISBN 0 902296 25 6.
• E. M. Treharne and D. F. Johnson, eds., Readings in Medieval Texts: Interpreting Old and Middle English Literature (Oxford University Press, 2005), 0-19-926163-6, 380pp.
• E. M. Treharne, ed. and intro., Writing Gender and Genre in Medieval Literature: Approaches to Old and Middle English Texts, Essays and Studies (Boydell and Brewer, 2002), 145pp., ISBN 0 85991 760 6.
• Mary Swan and E. M. Treharne, eds., Rewriting Old English in the Twelfth Century, Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England 30 (CUP, 2000), 220 pp., ISBN 0 521 623723.