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Ombretta Frau

Publication

Frau, O. (2020). “La mia azienda:” Matilde Serao e Il Giorno. Lettere inedite [‘My company’: Matilde Serao and Il Giorno. With unpublished correspondence]. Oblio. Osservatorio Bibliografico della Letteratura Italiana Otto-Novecentesca, 36 (2019), 122-138.

Honor

On April 4, 2025, Ombretta Frau delivered a talk on "Alvise Zorzi e la polemica sui restauri della Basilica di San Marco" at the Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti ("Cultura letteraria e arti a Venezia dalla Restaurazione alla fine del XIX secolo")

On March 7, 2025, Ombretta Frau gave a talk on “San Michele: a Venice Experiment between Life and Death” at the NEMLA conference in Philadelphia.

On March 14, 2025, Ombretta Frau gave a talk on “Stationery Shopping on the Way to Autonomy and Emancipation” at the American Association for Italian Studies conference at the University of Pennsylvania.

On March 6, 2025, Ombretta Frau delivered a lecture at the America Italy Society of Philadelphia: "Venice’s San Michele. A Cosmopolitan Memoryscape."

On February 24, 2025, the Georgetown University Department of Italian Studies invited Ombretta Frau to deliver a lecture on “Giorgia Meloni and the Rebranding of Italian Fascism”.

Ombretta Frau. Keynote Lecture, “In limine. Women and the City / Women in the City” University of Toronto GSAIS conference, 2 November 2024

Ombretta Frau. Keynote Lecture, GSAIS Conference, University of Toronto, 1-3 November 2024

Ombretta Frau. Organizer, curator and moderator for the inaugural American Association for Italian Studies' Giornata di Studio on Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's conservative feminism, January 27, 2023

Ombretta Frau. First-Generation Cording Ceremony Speaker, Mount Holyoke College, April 30, 2023.