Office: Trinity Hall 134   
Tel: (530) 898-6195   
E-mail: mmueller@csuchico.edu 
Webpage: http://www.csuchico.edu/~mmueller 
                                              

Dr. Mueller has been teaching German at CSU, Chico since 1993. She has also taught at Stanford University and at Columbia University. She is an active scholar, a specialist on German feminist thought and on the philosophy of Ernst Bloch. During Fall 1998, she was on sabbatical leave, revising and editing a book-length manuscript on Bloch's (post)modernism. During her sabbatical, she also co-compiled and co-edited German Feminist Writings (2001). Furthermore, she is co-editor of two collections of scholarly articles entitled Gender Politics and Post-Communism: Reflections from Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union (1993) and Gender and Germanness: Cultural Productions of Nation (1997). She has published articles on the topics of German intellectual history, aesthetic theory, the GDR, and contemporary German literature, film, culture, theology, feminist theology, and feminist studies. She has presented papers at a variety of national and international conferences and workshops, including the meetings organizations at the forefront of German Studies: the ACTFL/AATG, the German Studies Association, and the Modern Language Association. Dr. Mueller is the book review editor of the Women in German Newsletter and Online Project. She is an editorial associate of Telos. A Quarterly Journal of Critical Thought, and serves on the editorial board of Die Unterrichtspraxis, a journal specializing in the teaching of German. She is also a reader for several publishers and scholarly journals. For the term 2001/02, Dr. Mueller is again severing as the President of the American Association of Teachers of German of Northern California; from 1996-1998 she also served as the president of that organization. She has held workshops for instructors of German at all levels and has written a manual on the implementation of a successful German Day. She has won several awards and she is the 2001 AATG and Goethe Institute Certificate of Merit recipient.
 

Office: Trinity Hall 146   
Tel: (530) 898-5166
E-mail: cgoulding@csuchico.edu 
Webpage: http://www.csuchico.edu/~goulding/ 
                                        
 

Dr. Goulding joined the German faculty in 1998. She has two broad areas of specialization: 18th- and 19th-century German literature and German pedagogy. Within her first area of interest, German literature, Dr. Goulding has written articles on 18th-century aesthetics and has presented numerous papers on various aspects of German literature at conferences of national and international professional organizations, including the German Studies Association (GSA) and the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS), and the International Nineteenth-Century Studies Society (INCS). She has also published translations in the tradition of German feminist philosophy and is a book reviewer for journals German Studies Review, Colloquia Germanica, the Lessing Yearbook, the Women in German Newsletter, Eighteenth-Century Women, and The Modern Language Journal. She is currently producing a book-length manuscript on the aesthetics of German wit.

In her second area of interest, German pedagogy, Dr. Goulding is co-author of the first-year textbook Alles klar (2004), along with the accompanying supplements. Her long interest in computer applications for Foreign Language learning led her to publish a role-playing murder mystery for intermediate German called Mord in Mainz. As an early pioneer in the use of the Web in foreign language instruction, she co-authored the Internet workbook Surf’s Up! Website Workbook for Basic German (1996-99) and collaborated on producing an interactive website to accompany the first-year German textbook Kontakte. She has also published on teaching and the use of computer technology in the foreign language classroom and has presented papers and given workshops in various venues, including the annual conferences of the American Association of Teachers of German (AATG) and the Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium (CALICO). She is currently collaborating on a second-year textbook for Prentice Hall called Immer weiter.

Cindy Bumgarner, Lecturer, M.A., California State U, Fullerton, ABD, Pepperdine U.

Cindy Bumgarner joined the CSU, Chico Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures in 1998 as the Director the Multimedia Language Learning Center (MLLC), a position she still holds. With a Master's degree in German, she is also a lecturer in the German program. She is co-author of the first-year textbook Alles klar (2004), along with the accompanying supplements. She is currently completing her dissertation at Pepperdine University and will graduate with a doctorate in Educational Technology.

Patricia Black, Professor, Ph.D., Cornell U.

Dr. Black is currently Chair of the Department of Foreign Languages & Literatures and a Professor of French, whose proficiency in multiple languages, including German, enables her to teach a German course from time to time.

Esther Molar-Ming, instructor on exchange from the Universities of Bonn and Köln (Cologne), Germany.   

Nicole Siepmann, teaching assistant on exchange from Johannes-Gutenberg-Univ., Mainz, Germany.

Kathrin Porten, teaching assistant from Johannes-Gutenberg-Univ., Mainz, Germany, 1998/99.