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Ombretta Frau

Publication

Frau, O. (2020). Prefazione (Foreword). In Flavia Steno, La nuova Eva (5-40). Papero Editore.  

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 With unpublished correspondence].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.

Honor

Ombretta Frau. Organizer, curator and moderator for the inaugural American Association for Italian Studies' Giornata di Studio on Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's conservative feminism, January 27, 2023

Ombretta Frau. First-Generation Cording Ceremony Speaker, Mount Holyoke College, April 30, 2023.

Ombretta Frau. Lecture on XVIII century Venice and Carlo Goldoni’s Theatre for Professor Monika Schmitter, U. of Massachusetts Amherst, April 21, 2023.

Ombretta Frau. Rembrandt’s suggestions in Grazia Deledda’s early fiction. Ottocentismi Conference, Seton Hall University, March 30-31, 2023.

Ombretta Frau. “Trauma and Resilience in Pirandello’s L’altro figlio,” NEMLA Conference, March 23-26, 2023.

Delivered the following 2 talks:

• “Catabasi e anabasi in Una fra tante di Emma,” American Association for Italian Studies Conference Bologna, May 29-1June 2022

• “Lo sguardo di Anna. La vacanza di Dacia Maraini sessant’anni dopo,” Molestias textuales. Escritoras contra la violencia conference, Universidad de Sevilla, 19-21 May, 2022

Discussed her work on material culture and literature at a round table on Lettrici italiane tra arte e letteratura dall'Ottocento al modernismo at the Society for Italian Studies conference, Warwick University, UK, 20-22 April, 2022.