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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE German Teacher Wins Prestigious Award Magda Mueller, Ph.D., director of the German Studies Program at California State University, Chico, is one of nine recipients of an award for outstanding achievement in furthering the teaching of German in the United States. The American Association of Teachers of German (AATG) and the Goethe-Institut New York have presented the award since 1978.Professor Mueller came to CSU, Chico in 1993. She has developed a strong German Studies Program, initiating many new activities and bringing the first Goethe Institut German language proficiency exam to Chico. The exam is a form of accreditation for the program. Mueller organized the first German Day in 1994. The program brings 300-400 high school students and teachers to campus each spring to participate in activities related to the German language and culture. She also created the German brown bag lunch series and German film festivals. Before coming to Chico, Mueller taught at Stanford University and Columbia University. She is a specialist on German feminist thought and on the philosophy of Ernst Bloch. She is a co-editor of German Feminist Writings (2001), co-editor of two collections of scholarly articles titled Gender Politics and Post-Communism: Reflections from Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union (1993) and Gender and Germanness: Cultural Productions of Nation (1997). Mueller is serving as the 2001-2002 president of AATG. She is also 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. Mueller will receive the award at the Nov. 16 annual meeting of AATG in Washington, D.C. As part of the award, she will receive a cash prize and a certificate toward the purchase of German teaching materials. ### 
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