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Ombretta Frau

Grant

Received a grant from the Consulate General of Italy, Boston, to support an Italian tutor.

Publication

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

Frau, O. (2023). 鈥淔rom Il signorino to Tanino e Tanotto: Pirandello鈥檚 鈥榙ouble鈥 conflict.鈥 PSA. The Journal of the Pirandello Society of America, XXXV, 2022-2023, 24-44.

Frau, O. (2023). Italo Calvino鈥檚 Lecture at 欧美AV: Description and the Future of Literature. California Italian Studies Themed Issue Calvino鈥檚 Memos: Between the Old and the New Millennium, 12.

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). 鈥淰agliami il lungo studio e il grande amore. Valentine Giamatti鈥檚 Dante Collection at 欧美AV.鈥 CoSMo. Comparative Studies in Modernism, 18, Spring 2021: 231-248.

Frau, O. (2021). Tazenda. The Italian Song. 

Frau, O. (2021) 鈥淢araini鈥檚 Isolina Thirty-Five Years Later鈥, in (M. La Luna ed.), A Life Devoted to Writing. Festschrift in Honor of Dacia Maraini,  ConSenso Publishing, 169-185.