Ombretta Frau
Title
Dorothy Rooke McCulloch Professor of Italian
Institution
Mount Holyoke College
Current Research
nineteenth and early twentieth century Italian literature and cultural history; the city of Venice
Recent Publications
“Jolanda” entry for Dizionario biografico e tematico delle donne in Italia 1730-2020, ed. Emma Giammattei, v. 1, Treccani, Rome 2026, 476-480.
“Grazia Deledda’s Landscape Writings: Ignacio Zuloaga’s Pictorial Suggestions in ‘L’uomo nuovo’ and ‘Lasciare o prendere?’”, in Grazia Deledda’s Painterly Aesthetic, ed. Angela Guiso, and Virginia A. Picchietti, Rowman and Littlefield, 2025: 51-73.
“Mara Antelling, Matilde Serao, Angelo De Gubernatis. Triangoli epistolari e giochi ad incastro nel Dizionario biografico degli scrittori contemporanei”, in Biografie. Scrittrici e scrittori fra Otto e Novecento, ed. Alviera Bussotti, and Chiara Licameli, Alessandria, Edizioni dell’Orso, 2024: 101-118.
“The Making of Il Giorno. Matilde Serao’s letters to Luigi Luzzatti,” in The Palgrave Handbook of Transnational Women’s Writing in the Long Nineteenth Century, edited by Claire E. Martin, Clorinda Donato, Palgrave MacMillan, 2024: 641-658.
Guest editor and author (with Juliet Guzzetta) of a special issue of Gender/Sexuality/Italy on Conservative Feminism / Femminismi di destra, g/s/i 10 I-II (2023-2024)
“Grazia Deledda’s Landscape Writings: Ignacio Zuloaga’s Pictorial Suggestions in ‘L’uomo nuovo’ and ‘Lasciare o prendere?’”, in Grazia Deledda’s Painterly Aesthetic, ed. Angela Guiso, and Virginia A. Picchietti, Rowman and Littlefield, 2025: 51-73.
“Mara Antelling, Matilde Serao, Angelo De Gubernatis. Triangoli epistolari e giochi ad incastro nel Dizionario biografico degli scrittori contemporanei”, in Biografie. Scrittrici e scrittori fra Otto e Novecento, ed. Alviera Bussotti, and Chiara Licameli, Alessandria, Edizioni dell’Orso, 2024: 101-118.
“The Making of Il Giorno. Matilde Serao’s letters to Luigi Luzzatti,” in The Palgrave Handbook of Transnational Women’s Writing in the Long Nineteenth Century, edited by Claire E. Martin, Clorinda Donato, Palgrave MacMillan, 2024: 641-658.
Guest editor and author (with Juliet Guzzetta) of a special issue of Gender/Sexuality/Italy on Conservative Feminism / Femminismi di destra, g/s/i 10 I-II (2023-2024)
Forthcoming Publications
“Female Sovereignty: Disorienting Feminist Rhetoric in the Italian Far Right”, Public Humanities, (with Juliet Guzzetta), 2026 (accepted and forthcoming)
“Archaeological Recollections in Luigi Pirandello’s Il capretto nero,” in The Tales of Archaeology. Towards a Literary ‘Memory Map’ of the Mediterranean, edited by Martina Piperno, Chiara Zampieri, (accepted and forthcoming)