Elaine Treharne is a medievalist, manuscript historian, and text technologist. She is the Roberta Bowman Denning Professor of Humanities and a Professor of English. She directs the Center for Spatial and Textual History, and is PI of Stanford Text Technologies. She has published widely on literary and cultural history, and runs funded projects on Digital Humanities and the long history of human communication. She is currently investigating Layered Landscapes, especially on the western fringes; and she is researching Immortality in literature and technology. She is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, of the Royal Historical Society, and of the English Association.
