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Amy Frary

Grant

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

Ombretta Frau

Grant

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

Publication

Frau, O. (2024). Mara Antelling, Matilde Serao, Angelo De Gubernatis. Triangoli epistolari e giochi ad incastro nel Dizionario biografico degli scrittori contemporanei. In A. Bussotti & C. Licameli (Eds.), Biografie. Scrittrici e scrittori fra Otto e Novecento. Edizioni dell’Orso.

Frau, O. (2024). Mara Antelling, Matilde Serao, Angelo De Gubernatis. Triangoli epistolari e giochi ad incastro nel Dizionario biografico degli scrittori contemporanei. In A. Bussotti & C. Licameli (Eds.), Biografie. Scrittrici e scrittori fra Otto e Novecento. Edizioni dell’Orso.

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.

Frau, O. (2023). Italo Calvino’s Lecture at ɬ: Description and the Future of Literature. California Italian Studies Themed Issue Calvino’s Memos: Between the Old and the New Millennium, 12.

Ellen Alvord, Ombretta Frau. Old Things Considered: Museum Objects and the Study of 19th-Century Italian Literature (2023). In Heather Flaherty and Jodi Kovach (eds.). Language Learning in Academic Museums: New Paradigms for Cultural Study, Language Acquisition and Campus Engagement (pp. 65-80). Rowman and Littlefield.

Frau, O. (2023). Jolanda, Angiolo Orvieto, and Cosimo Giorgieri-Contri: Asymmetric Mentoring Relationships. In Catherine Ramsey-Portolano, Sharon Hecker (eds.), Female Cultural Production in Modern Italy (pp. 159-172). Palgrave MacMillan.

Frau, O. (2023). The Social Role of Jewelry in Italian Short Stories. The Case of Contessa Lara and Marchesa Colombi. In Chiara Giuliani, Kate Hodgson (eds.), Memory, Mobility and Material Culture (pp. 155-170). Routledge.