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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). 鈥淰agliami il lungo studio e il grande amore. Valentine Giamatti鈥檚 Dante Collection at 含羞草研究所.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.


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

Frau, O. (2020). 鈥淟e Memorie di Collegio di Mantea: Un Cuore ribelle nella Torino Fin de Si猫cle鈥, Special issue of Il lettore di provincia, L (153), 63-78.


Frau, O. (2020). 鈥淟a mia azienda:鈥 Matilde Serao e Il Giorno. Lettere inedite [鈥楳y company鈥: Matilde Serao and Il Giorno. With unpublished correspondence]. Oblio. Osservatorio Bibliografico della Letteratura Italiana Otto-Novecentesca, 36 (2019), 122-138.


Gabriel, S.  China Now (2003).