Stanford Faculty and Staff
Elaine Treharne
The Roberta Bowman Denning Professor
Professor, by Courtesy, of German Studies
Research Areas:
- Early British manuscripts
- Religious poetry and prose
- Medieval materiality and culture
Education:
- BA, English, First Class Honors, University of Manchester, 1986
- MA, Archive Administration, University of Liverpool, 1987
- PhD, Medieval Literature, University of Manchester, 1992
Ron Egan
Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures
Research Areas:
- Chinese Poetry
- Song dynasty Poetry and literati Culture
- The social and historical context of Song dynasty aesthetics
Education:
- BA, Far Eastern Languages and Literatures, University of Washington, 1970
- AM, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University, 1974
- PhD, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University, 1976
Benjamin Albritton
Digital Manuscripts Program Manager, Stanford University Libraries
Benjamin Albritton is the Digital Manuscripts Program Manager at Stanford University Libraries. He oversees a number of digital manuscript projects, including Parker Library on the Web, Stanford University's digitized medieval manuscripts, and a number of projects devoted to interoperability and improving access to manuscript images for pedagogical and research purposes. His research interests include the intersection of words and music in the fourteenth century, primarily in the monophonic works of Guillaume de Machaut; the uses of digital medieval resources in scholarly communication; and transmission models in the later Middle Ages.
Affiliates
Orietta Da Rold
Lecturer of English, University of Cambridge
Research Areas:
- Medieval literature and texts
- Circulation and transmission of texts
- Codicology and palaeography of manuscripts
Andrew Prescott
Professor of Digital Humanities, University of Glasgow
Experience:
- Curator of manuscripts at the British Library
- A chief curatorial contact and an editor of the volume recording the work for the British Library’s Initiatives for Access program
- The lead British Library contact for the award-winning Electronic Beowulf project
- A member of the team which helped create the British Library’s first web site
Siân Echard
Professor of English, University of British Columbia
Research Areas:
- Anglo-Latin literature
- Arthurian literature
- John Gower
- Manuscript studies and book history
Education:
- BA, Queen's University at Kingston, 1984
- MA & PhD, Centre for Medieval Studies at University of Toronto, 1990
