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Ellen Alvord, Ombretta Frau. Old Things Considered: Museum Objects and the Study of 19th-Century Italian Literature (2023). In Heather Flaherty and Jodi Kovach (eds.). Language Learning in Academic Museums: New Paradigms for Cultural Study, Language Acquisition and Campus Engagement (pp. 65-80). Rowman and Littlefield.
Frau, O. (2023). Jolanda, Angiolo Orvieto, and Cosimo Giorgieri-Contri: Asymmetric Mentoring Relationships. In Catherine Ramsey-Portolano, Sharon Hecker (eds.), Female Cultural Production in Modern Italy (pp. 159-172). Palgrave MacMillan.
Frau, O. (2023). The Social Role of Jewelry in Italian Short Stories. The Case of Contessa Lara and Marchesa Colombi. In Chiara Giuliani, Kate Hodgson (eds.), Memory, Mobility and Material Culture (pp. 155-170). Routledge.
Frau, O. (2022). “Vagliami il lungo studio e il grande amore. Valentine Giamatti’s Dante Collection at Mount Holyoke College.” CoSMo. Comparative Studies in Modernism, 18, Spring 2021: 231-248.
Frau, O. (2021). Tazenda. The Italian Song. https://theitaliansong.com/singers/tazenda/
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 With unpublished correspondence].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.
