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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 With unpublished correspondence].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 was a Baccalaureate Speaker, at Mount Holyoke College, May 2026
Ombretta Frau presentation of Laura Benedetti’s new novel Al mondo intero: il romanzo di Margaret Fuller, Warwick Venice Centre, Palazzo Giustinian Lolin, Venice, July 7 22, 2026.
Ombretta Frau delivered a paper, “Edith Wharton’s Rome Then and Now,” at the AATI Conference, in Rome, July 2026.
Ombretta Frau with Professor Juliet Guzzetta (Michigan State U.), organized a round table on Neofascist Neofeminism at the American Association for Italian Studies, University of Sassari, Italy, June 2026
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")
