Ombretta Frau
Title
Dorothy Rooke McCulloch Professor of Italian
Institution
Mount Holyoke College
Current Research
nineteenth and early twentieth century Italian literature and history of culture.
Recent Publications
“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.
“Jolanda, Angiolo Orvieto, and Cosimo Giorgieri-Contri: Asymmetric Mentoring Relationships,” in Female Cultural Production in Modern Italy, edited by Catherine Ramsey-Portolano, Sharon Hecker, Palgrave MacMillan 2023: 159-172
“Vagliami il lungo studio e il grande amore. Valentine Giamatti’s Dante Collection at Mount Holyoke College.” CoSMo. Comparative Studies in Modernism (2021): 231-248.
“Libri chiusi e pagine bianche. Lettrici ingannevoli in Jolanda e Sfinge”, in Lettrici italiane tra arte e letteratura, eds. Giovanna Capitelli, Olivia Santovetti (Rome: Campisano, 2020): 81-94.
“The Social Role of Jewelry in Italian Short Stories. The Case of Contessa Lara and Marchesa Colombi”, in Memory, Mobility and Material Culture, eds. Chiara Giuliani and Kate Hodgson, (Oxford: Routledge, 2022)
*“Italo Calvino’s Lecture at Mount Holyoke College: Description and the Future of Literature.” California Italian Studies Themed Issue Calvino’s Memos: Between the Old and the New Millennium, edited by Anna Botta and Lucia Re, n. 12, 2023
*“From Il signorino to Tanino e Tanotto: Pirandello’s ‘double’ conflict.” PSA. The Journal of the Pirandello Society of America, n. XXXV, 2022-2023:24-44.
“Old Things Considered: Museum Objects and the Study of 19th-Century Italian Literature,” Language Learning in Academic Museums: New Paradigms for Cultural Study, Language Acquisition and Campus Engagement, edited by Heather Flaherty and Jodi Kovach, Rowman and Littlefield, Lanham, 2023: 65-80. (with Ellen Alvord)
“Jolanda, Angiolo Orvieto, and Cosimo Giorgieri-Contri: Asymmetric Mentoring Relationships,” in Female Cultural Production in Modern Italy, edited by Catherine Ramsey-Portolano, Sharon Hecker, Palgrave MacMillan 2023: 159-172
“Vagliami il lungo studio e il grande amore. Valentine Giamatti’s Dante Collection at Mount Holyoke College.” CoSMo. Comparative Studies in Modernism (2021): 231-248.
“Libri chiusi e pagine bianche. Lettrici ingannevoli in Jolanda e Sfinge”, in Lettrici italiane tra arte e letteratura, eds. Giovanna Capitelli, Olivia Santovetti (Rome: Campisano, 2020): 81-94.
“The Social Role of Jewelry in Italian Short Stories. The Case of Contessa Lara and Marchesa Colombi”, in Memory, Mobility and Material Culture, eds. Chiara Giuliani and Kate Hodgson, (Oxford: Routledge, 2022)
*“Italo Calvino’s Lecture at Mount Holyoke College: Description and the Future of Literature.” California Italian Studies Themed Issue Calvino’s Memos: Between the Old and the New Millennium, edited by Anna Botta and Lucia Re, n. 12, 2023
*“From Il signorino to Tanino e Tanotto: Pirandello’s ‘double’ conflict.” PSA. The Journal of the Pirandello Society of America, n. XXXV, 2022-2023:24-44.
“Old Things Considered: Museum Objects and the Study of 19th-Century Italian Literature,” Language Learning in Academic Museums: New Paradigms for Cultural Study, Language Acquisition and Campus Engagement, edited by Heather Flaherty and Jodi Kovach, Rowman and Littlefield, Lanham, 2023: 65-80. (with Ellen Alvord)
Forthcoming Publications
“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, [forthcoming, 2024]