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Ombretta Frau

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Frau, O. (2025) “Giorgia Meloni’s Contradictory Feminist Rhetoric” ALAC Symposium on the far right, Amherst College, 9 May 2025

Frau, O. (2025) “A Wonder Woman,” Wonder Women Festival, Domus Artist Residency, Galatina (Italy), 23-26 July 2025 

Frau, O. (2025). Grazia Deledda’s Landscape Writings: Ignacio Zuloaga’s Pictorial Suggestions in L’uomo nuovo and Lasciare o prendere? in A. Guiso, & V. Picchietti (eds.), Grazia Deledda’s Painterly Aesthetic (pp. 51-73).  Rowman and Littlefield.

Frau, O., Guest Editor (with J. Guzzetta), Conservative Feminism. Journal Issue: gender/sexuality/italy, 10, I-II (2023-2024)

Frau, O., Guzzetta J. Donne di destra / Women of the Right. gender/sexuality/italy (10 I, II),  https://doi.org/10.15781/kf73-6c95

Frau, O. (2024). Mara Antelling, Matilde Serao, Angelo De Gubernatis. Triangoli epistolari e giochi ad incastro nel Dizionario biografico degli scrittori contemporanei. In A. Bussotti & C. Licameli (Eds.), Biografie. Scrittrici e scrittori fra Otto e Novecento. Edizioni dell’Orso.

Frau, O. (2024). Mara Antelling, Matilde Serao, Angelo De Gubernatis. Triangoli epistolari e giochi ad incastro nel Dizionario biografico degli scrittori contemporanei. In A. Bussotti & C. Licameli (Eds.), Biografie. Scrittrici e scrittori fra Otto e Novecento. Edizioni dell’Orso.

Frau, O. (2024) The Making of Il Giorno. Matilde Serao’s Letters to Luigi Luzzatti. In Claire E. Martin, Clorinda Donato (eds.). The Palgrave Handbook of Transnational Women’s Writing in the Long Nineteenth Century (641-658). Palgrave MacMillan.

Frau, O. (2023). “From Il signorino to Tanino e Tanotto: Pirandello’s ‘double’ conflict.” PSA. The Journal of the Pirandello Society of America, XXXV, 2022-2023, 24-44.

Frau, O. (2023). Italo Calvino’s Lecture at Mount Holyoke College: Description and the Future of Literature. California Italian Studies Themed Issue Calvino’s Memos: Between the Old and the New Millennium, 12.