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Gave a talk at the NEMLA conference: 鈥淎 鈥榙ouble鈥 class conflict in Tanino e Tanotto鈥 NEMLA Conference, March, 10, 2022.


Invited to lecture on 鈥淩egulating Prostitution in Nineteenth Century Italy: the Cavour Law,鈥 University of Rhode Island鈥檚 Women鈥檚 Day Celebration with author Dacia Maraini, March 9, 2022


Invited to lecture on 鈥淩egulating Prostitution in Nineteenth Century Italy: the Cavour Law,鈥 University of Rhode Island鈥檚 Women鈥檚 Day Celebration with author Dacia Maraini, March 9, 2022


Was selected to be Visiting Professor at Sapienza University of Rome in early Spring 2022.


Was invited to deliver the following two lectures in Italy: 1. 鈥淎merican Dante: The Divine Comedy Revisited鈥, Centro Studi Americani, Rome, 13 September 2021 2. 鈥淯na congiura di buoni. L鈥檈silio dell鈥檃nima in Una fra tante鈥, University of Rome La Sapienza, 15 September 2021 She also delivered a paper on 鈥淎rchaeological Recollections in Pirandello鈥檚 Sicilian short-stories鈥 at The Tales of Archaeology. Towards a Literary 'Memory Map' of the Mediterranean Space Conference at the Academia Belgica in Rome on 16-18 September 2021.

 

Was invited to speak at an event to 鈥淐elebrate Dacia Maraini on International Women鈥檚 Day鈥 at the University of Rhode Island on March 5, 2021.


Was invited to speak at a Career Panel at Harvard University鈥檚 Department of Romance languages on April 19, 2021.


Was invited to deliver a lecture at the University of Illinois Chicago titled "School as Family, and Magazines as Social Media: A Nineteenth Century Girl鈥檚 Education鈥 on February 26, 2021.


Frau, O. (23 October 2020) Un rompicapo incompleto: il triangolo Antelling, De Gubernatis, Serao fra mentoring e documenti inediti [An Unfinished Puzzle: the Antelling, De Gubernatis, Serao Triangle between Mentoring and Unpublished Documents], Presented at the Ottocentismi: Inaugural Symposium of the Interdisciplinary Network for Nineteenth-Century Italian Studies (INNCIS), Seton Hall U. (delivered on Zoom)


Invited to deliver a lecture at the University of Rome La Sapienza on December 12, 2019, titled "Un 'Cuore' in esilio. Le memorie di Mantea鈥 [An Exiled 鈥楬eart鈥. Mantea鈥檚 memoir鈥漖.