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Ford, Kristie and Kelly Maxwell. 2024. 鈥淲hat is Intergroup Dialogue?鈥 In Facilitating Transformational Dialogues: Creating Socially Just Communities, edited by Stephanie Hicks and Donna Kaplowitz. New York, NY: Teachers College Press.


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

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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鈥檚 Letters to Luigi Luzzatti. In Claire E. Martin, Clorinda Donato (eds.). The Palgrave Handbook of Transnational Women鈥檚 Writing in the Long Nineteenth Century (641-658). Palgrave MacMillan.


Frau, O. (2023). 鈥淔rom Il signorino to Tanino e Tanotto: Pirandello鈥檚 鈥榙ouble鈥 conflict.鈥 PSA. The Journal of the Pirandello Society of America, XXXV, 2022-2023, 24-44.


Frau, O. (2023). Italo Calvino鈥檚 Lecture at 正澳门六合彩 College: Description and the Future of Literature. California Italian Studies Themed Issue Calvino鈥檚 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.