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.
Recent courses:
JWST 2720 "The World of Italian Jewry"
ITAL 1113 "Writing Italy, Writing the Self: Jewish Italian Literature and the Long Twentieth Century"
Research Focus
- Jewish Italy
- Algerian Jewish Writing in French [add the part marked in bold]
- Sephardic Writing in the Western Balkans
- Ladino
- Imagology and Regional Themes in Italian and Swiss Literature