K. E. Bättig von Wittelsbach
Senior Lecturer of Italian Language

E-mail: wittelsbach@cornell.edu
E-mail: K_Battig@alumni.brown.edu

K. E. Bättig von Wittelsbach's graduate and undergraduate studies have been in Romance Philology, English Philology, Comparative Literature, and Classics. Her teaching and research interests include: literature (especially poetry) in L2 classroom; development of aural comprehension in L2 learners; multilingualism and lexical interference; Italian-speaking communities and writing in Italian outside of Italy (Switzerland and Istria); Jewish-Italian writers; African literature in French and English; and 18th-century Franco-Italian literary influences.

She is the recipient of the Clark Award for Distinguished Teaching, and several grants from the Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning. She has authored teaching materials and standardized exams for Cengage Learning (U.S.) and the International Baccalaureate Organization (U.K. and Switzerland; L2 and World Literatures sections), where she has also worked as an evaluator of language examiners. In Europe she developed, directed, and taught Corsi Integrativi (Italian language and literature, history) organized by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs for school-age native speakers of Italian living abroad. At Cornell she has taught and developed courses in the Departments of Romance Studies, German, Near Eastern Studies, and Linguistics/Russian. She keeps reminding her students that Latin and Greek are the key to it all, and some listen.

RECENT COURSES

Italian 3130: Advanced Italian - Language in Italian Culture