Professor Elaine Treharne of the Department of English has been elected a fellow of the Royal Historical Society, a scholarly organization chartered by Britain’s Queen Victoria in 1868.

“Since then the society has evolved from being a club for scholarly gentlemen to its current status as the foremost body for those engaged professionally in the study of the past,” the group’s website says. In addition, the website says that those elected to the rank of fellow must have made “an original contribution to historical scholarship in the form of significant published work.”

Headquartered in London, the organization “of nearly 3,000 fellows and members draws together individuals from across the world, engaged professionally in researching and presenting public history, whether in archives, libraries, museums or the heritage industry.”

Treharne, who is a member of FSU’s interdisciplinary History of Text Technologies (HoTT) program, specializes in Anglo-Saxon and later medieval manuscripts and texts. In 2009, she was elected a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries (of London), one of the oldest and most prestigious Royal Societies in the world.