Beverly Allen

Beverly Allen studies how humans create meaning. She is Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature and Tolley Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Humanities. Her work treats narrative, poetry, film, national identity, human rights, genocide and international law. Rape Warfare, her book of investigative journalism, influenced the United Nations Security Council to create a new law making rape a crime against humanity. She wrote "His Name Is Daniel," a film produced in Sarajevo by Hallmark Entertainment.

With a B.A. in Music from U.C. Berkeley, a Masters in Italian from Columbia, and a Ph.D. in Italian from U.C. Berkeley, she has lived in Italy, Bosnia, Croatia, Sweden, France and Greece and traveled in Africa and Asia. She has taught at U.C. Santa Cruz, Stanford, Cornell, and the University of Zagreb and has been a Fellow of the Humanities Centers at Stanford and the University of Gothenburg. At S.U., she has directed the Humanities Doctoral Program and currently serves as chair of the Corridor Project on Visual Culture (with Cornell and the University of Rochester) and on the Humanities Council, the Syracuse International Film and Video Festival, and the Boards of Point of Contact and the Center for European Studies.

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