Beverly Allen, professor of French, Italian and comparative literature in The College of Arts and Sciences, has completed her third screenplay, “The Bitter Chalice,” an action-drama love story set against the Siege of Sarejevo in the 1990s. Recently named best feature-length screenplay in a competition for unproduced scripts at the Roma Independent Film Festival, the story draws on two sources-her co-writer Jacques Lipkau Goyard’s wartime love story, “Una donna, una vita,” and Allen’s own book, “Rape Warfare,” an exposé about rape/death camps in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia. The script addresses the issue of mass rape in warfare, which remains a problem in many parts of the world.
Allen, a William P. Tolley Distinguished Teaching Professor from 2005-08, holds a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley.
