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Adeline Mueller serves as Faculty Associate Professor of Music and Chair of Music at Mount Holyoke College, specializing in eighteenth-century vocal and theatrical music within German-speaking Europe. Her interdisciplinary work bridges historical musicology with disability studies, childhood constructions, and marginalized composer recovery.
Her educational background includes a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley and an M.A. from the University of Sussex.
Professor Mueller's research critically examines music as a site for social experimentation, particularly through print culture and performance. Current projects investigate blindness education through music in pre-Braille Europe (1780-1840), revealing how tactile notation systems and institutional practices reshaped disability history. Her scholarship consistently centers marginalized perspectives including children, blind musicians, and racial dynamics in canonical works like Mozart's Die Zauberflöte.
Recent publications demonstrate growing emphasis on disability studies and accessibility, evolving from Mozart-focused historiography toward material culture analysis of music's role in special education. This trajectory culminated in her co-organized 2024 Paradis Symposium examining blind musicianship.
Scientific recognition includes:
- 2020 publication subvention by the American Musicological Society
Professor Mueller actively mentors student researchers like Siggy Ehrlich '26 for symposium exhibitions while securing collaborative funding through institutional partnerships. Her Paradis Symposium involved multiple performers, panelists, and the Fimbel Maker and Innovation Lab for tactile replica development.
She maintains strong ties with the Fimbel Maker and Innovation Lab for creating accessible research tools, and leads international collaborations evidenced by the 2024 Paradis Symposium's transatlantic participation.
