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Frau, O. (2021) “Maraini’s Isolina Thirty-Five Years Later”, in (M. La Luna ed.), A Life Devoted to Writing. Festschrift in Honor of Dacia Maraini, ConSenso Publishing, 169-185.
Frau, O. (2020). “Le Memorie di Collegio di Mantea: Un Cuore ribelle nella Torino Fin de Siècle”, Special issue of Il lettore di provincia, L (153), 63-78.
Frau, O. (2020). “La mia azienda:” Matilde Serao e Il Giorno. Lettere inedite [‘My company’: Matilde Serao and Il Giorno. With unpublished correspondence]. Oblio. Osservatorio Bibliografico della Letteratura Italiana Otto-Novecentesca, 36 (2019), 122-138.
Ombretta Frau presented "Sacred Spiritual Awakenings in Nineteenth Century Venice." Religions, Beliefs, and the Supernatural in Italy and across Italian Mobilities conference, April 24–25, 2026, at the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, New York City.
From May 1-3, 2025, Ombretta Frau presented “Sustainability in Zorzi’s Prophetic Osservazioni,” during the Ottocentismi Conference at the University of Toronto.
On April 4, 2025, Ombretta Frau delivered a talk on "Alvise Zorzi e la polemica sui restauri della Basilica di San Marco" at the Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti ("Cultura letteraria e arti a Venezia dalla Restaurazione alla fine del XIX secolo")
On March 7, 2025, Ombretta Frau gave a talk on “San Michele: a Venice Experiment between Life and Death” at the NEMLA conference in Philadelphia.
On March 14, 2025, Ombretta Frau gave a talk on “Stationery Shopping on the Way to Autonomy and Emancipation” at the American Association for Italian Studies conference at the University of Pennsylvania.
On March 6, 2025, Ombretta Frau delivered a lecture at the America Italy Society of Philadelphia: "Venice’s San Michele. A Cosmopolitan Memoryscape."
