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.
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.
Guest editor and author (with Juliet Guzzetta), Conservative Feminism / Femminismi di destra, g/s/i 10 I-II (2023-2024)
“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. A. Bussotti, C. Licameli, 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, ed. C. E. Martin, C. Donato, Palgrave MacMillan, 2024: 641-658
“Italo Calvino’s Lecture at Mount Holyoke College: Description and the Future of Literature,” California Italian Studies, ed. A. Botta, L. Re, n. 12, 2023
“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.
Guest editor and author (with Juliet Guzzetta), Conservative Feminism / Femminismi di destra, g/s/i 10 I-II (2023-2024)
“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. A. Bussotti, C. Licameli, 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, ed. C. E. Martin, C. Donato, Palgrave MacMillan, 2024: 641-658
“Italo Calvino’s Lecture at Mount Holyoke College: Description and the Future of Literature,” California Italian Studies, ed. A. Botta, L. Re, n. 12, 2023
“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.
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, 2025]