Eleanor Janega is an American broadcaster and medievalist. Her scholarship focuses on gender and sexuality; apocalyptic thought; propaganda; and the urban experience, in the late medieval period.
Janega gained her undergraduate degree in History (with honours) from Loyola University Chicago, and holds an MA (with distinction) in Medieval Studies and a PhD in history, both from University College London. Her doctoral thesis on the 14th-century Bohemian preacher MilÃÂàof KromÃÂà ÂÃÂà ¾ was titled Jan MilÃÂàof KromÃÂà ÂÃÂà ¾ and Emperor Charles IV: Preaching, Power, and the Church of Prague, and was supervised by Martyn Rady.
She is a guest teacher in the London School of Economics Department of International History, and teaches a standalone online course on Medieval Gender and Sexuality.
Janega co-hosts the Going Medieval documentary strand on the History Hit streaming service. She also co-hosts the Gone Medieval podcast as well as the "We're Not So Different" podcast and has appeared as a talking head on radio and television.