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Ombretta Frau

Publication

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 With unpublished correspondence].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.

Honor

Ombretta Frau. Keynote Lecture, 鈥淚n limine. Women and the City / Women in the City鈥 University of Toronto GSAIS conference, 2 November 2024

Ombretta Frau. Keynote Lecture, GSAIS Conference, University of Toronto, 1-3 November 2024