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Janie Rees-Miller (born in 1950 in Columbia, Missouri) is an English-language linguist. She was raised in Columbia, Missouri(USA) and is still living there. She was the author of many linguistic books, collaborated with people of the English-language field.

EDUCATION: Janie went to Hickman High School in Columbia. Her first degree was optained in 1970 in Oberlin College, Ohio.She went abroad for studies in Lebanon, specifically in the American University of Beirut(AUB), where she got her second degree in 1975. She had done her PhD Linguistics in Guayaquil,Ecuador.

CAREER: Her aim as an English-language linguist was to help students from all around the globe to understand and speak fluently English. She created ESL, which stands for English as a Second Language, encouranging people from Asia, Europe and Africa to learn the language. She had worked for 2 decades in Marietta College as a lecturer-linguist of the English Language. In 2018, she got retired, specifically April 27th, celebrated in Marietta College, in the age of 68.

BOOKS:
 * Contemporary Linguistics: An Introduction
 * Linguistics at the beginning of the 21st century: Review of Handbook of Linguistics
 * Handbook of Linguistics
 * Power,severity and context in disagreement
 * Compliments revisited: Contemporary compliments and gender
 * Morphological Adaptation of English Loanwords in Algonquian
 * Second Language Pedagogy:Where Theory Meets Practise
 * Study Guide for Contemporary Linguistics

REFERENCES:
 * https://www.marietta.edu/mag/sp18/immeasurable-impact
 * https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/34708.Janie_Rees_Miller
 * https://www.facebook.com/janie.reesmiller
 * https://www.waterstones.com/author/janie-rees-miller/1138010
 * https://www.whitepages.com/name/Janie-Rees-Miller