Overview
Kora von Wittelsbach teaches in the Italian Program and is an affiliate faculty member in the Jewish Studies Program. She is a member of the Editorial Board for Women in Judaism, a multi-disciplinary academic journal, and a literary translator.
Von Wittelsbach is a recipient of the Kendall S. Carpenter Memorial Advising Award and of the John M. and Emily B. Clark Distinguished Teaching Award, and a Faculty Fellow in Engaged Scholarship and Engaged Learning at Cornell's Einhorn Center for Community Engagement.
She is the current Chair of the Elections and Nominations Committee of AATI, the largest professional organization of Italianists in North America.
Research Focus
Jewish Italy
Algerian Literature in French
Ladino
Literature in the Second-Language Classroom
Teaching for Listening Proficiency
L2 Testing
Imagology and Regional Themes in Italian and Swiss Literature
In the news
- Reclaiming experience: Approaches to trauma
- Engaged faculty network grows with 28 new fellows
- Talk by Italian author on his writing and his papers donated to the library, March 26
- Two dozen Engaged Faculty Fellows announced
- ‘A Tale of Three Cities’ continues Cornell-NYC Center for Jewish History collaboration
- Bible's Joseph is topic of lecture March 20 in NYC
Courses - Fall 2026
- ITAL 1113 : FWS: Writing Italy, Writing the Self: Jewish-Italian Lit and the Long 20th Century
- ITAL 2201 : Italian III