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Ombretta Frau

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Ombretta Frau. Rembrandt’s suggestions in Grazia Deledda’s early fiction. Ottocentismi Conference, Seton Hall University, March 30-31, 2023.

Ombretta Frau. “Trauma and Resilience in Pirandello’s L’altro figlio,” NEMLA Conference, March 23-26, 2023.

Delivered the following 2 talks:

• “Catabasi e anabasi in Una fra tante di Emma,” American Association for Italian Studies Conference Bologna, May 29-1June 2022

• “Lo sguardo di Anna. La vacanza di Dacia Maraini sessant’anni dopo,” Molestias textuales. Escritoras contra la violencia conference, Universidad de Sevilla, 19-21 May, 2022

Discussed her work on material culture and literature at a round table on Lettrici italiane tra arte e letteratura dall'Ottocento al modernismo at the Society for Italian Studies conference, Warwick University, UK, 20-22 April, 2022.

Gave a talk at the NEMLA conference: “A ‘double’ class conflict in Tanino e Tanotto” NEMLA Conference, March, 10, 2022.

Invited to lecture on “Regulating Prostitution in Nineteenth Century Italy: the Cavour Law,” University of Rhode Island’s Women’s Day Celebration with author Dacia Maraini, March 9, 2022

Invited to lecture on “Regulating Prostitution in Nineteenth Century Italy: the Cavour Law,” University of Rhode Island’s Women’s Day Celebration with author Dacia Maraini, March 9, 2022

Was selected to be Visiting Professor at Sapienza University of Rome in early Spring 2022.

Was invited to deliver the following two lectures in Italy: 1. “American Dante: The Divine Comedy Revisited”, Centro Studi Americani, Rome, 13 September 2021 2. “Una congiura di buoni. L’esilio dell’anima in Una fra tante”, University of Rome La Sapienza, 15 September 2021 She also delivered a paper on “Archaeological Recollections in Pirandello’s Sicilian short-stories” at The Tales of Archaeology. Towards a Literary 'Memory Map' of the Mediterranean Space Conference at the Academia Belgica in Rome on 16-18 September 2021.

 

Was invited to speak at an event to “Celebrate Dacia Maraini on International Women’s Day” at the University of Rhode Island on March 5, 2021.