Professor Stefania Benini has been selected as a Penn Humanities Forum Mellon Faculty Fellow for the 2013-14 academic year. Through this award she will become a member of the Forum's weekly Mellon Research Seminar on "Violence",which will be led by Karen Beckman, Topic Director for "Violence" and Acting Director of the Humanities Forum. Members of the seminar include Mellon postdoctoral fellows and faculty fellows from regional colleges as well as from Penn, representing the full range of disciplines in the humanities.