Janel Mueller

Janel Mueller is an American academic.

She is the William Rainey Harper Distinguished Service Professor Emerita in English Language & Literature and the College at University of Chicago and was the Dean of the Division of Humaniites. She is an expert on the writings of Catherine Parr, the first woman to publish under her own name in English, including Psalms or Prayers, Prayers or Meditations and The Lamentation of a Sinner. In 1972, she was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship. She is the co-editor of four volumes of the writings of Elizabeth I, all published by the University of Chicago Press.