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
“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)
“Una congiura di buoni. L’esilio dell’anima in Una fra tante”, in Scrittrici in esilio tra Otto e Novecento, eds. Silvia Tatti, Chiara Licameli (Macerata: Quodlibet, 2022): 93-105.
“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)
“Una congiura di buoni. L’esilio dell’anima in Una fra tante”, in Scrittrici in esilio tra Otto e Novecento, eds. Silvia Tatti, Chiara Licameli (Macerata: Quodlibet, 2022): 93-105.
Forthcoming 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, edsClaire E. Martin, Clorinda Donato (Palgrave MacMillan)
“Jolanda, Angiolo Orvieto, and Cosimo Giorgieri-Contri: Asymmetric Mentoring Relationships,” in Female Cultural Production in Modern Italy, eds. Catherine Ramsey-Portolano, Sharon Hecker (Palgrave MacMillan)
“Jolanda, Angiolo Orvieto, and Cosimo Giorgieri-Contri: Asymmetric Mentoring Relationships,” in Female Cultural Production in Modern Italy, eds. Catherine Ramsey-Portolano, Sharon Hecker (Palgrave MacMillan)