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"Abortion Decriminalization in Uruguay: Lessons and Liabilities," Different Takes, Fall 2012


Received a grant from the National Science Foundation (subaward from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) for “Dissecting the dynamic evolution of paralogs in shaping trait variation across the Solanum pan-genome.” The project is for five years. (2022)

National Science Foundation


Received a grant from the Consulate General of Italy, Boston, to support an Italian tutor.


Frau, O. (2024) The Making of Il Giorno. Matilde Serao’s Letters to Luigi Luzzatti. In Claire E. Martin, Clorinda Donato (eds.). The Palgrave Handbook of Transnational Women’s Writing in the Long Nineteenth Century (641-658). Palgrave MacMillan.


Frau, O. (2023). “From Il signorino to Tanino e Tanotto: Pirandello’s ‘double’ conflict.” PSA. The Journal of the Pirandello Society of America, XXXV, 2022-2023, 24-44.