Faculty

Elissa Tognozzi (Ph.D. Italian, UCLA) is a Senior Lecturer SOE in the Department of Italian at UCLA. As Director of Italian Language Studies, she teaches graduate seminars in methods and in technology, coordinates the language program and supervises the department’s teaching assistants. Her upper-division courses include advanced composition, culture, opera, and theater. In addition, she is undergraduate advisor. She co-authored the second-year Italian text, Ponti, now in its second edition with Cengage. She has undertaken numerous research projects in technology and foreign language pedagogy and published results. From 2003-2008 she was Chair of the AP Italian Development Committee. Since 2003 she has been Editor of the AATI Newsletter.