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Professor of English

Nancy Ann Bentley is the Donald T. Regan Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania.

Education[edit]

Bentley earned her Bachelor of Arts from Brigham Young University (BYU) and her Master’s degree and PhD from Harvard University.[1] While at BYU, she was a member of Phi Eta Sigma.[2]

In 1994, Bentley published her first book “The Ethnography of Manners” through the Cambridge University Press.[3][4] In 1995, she was promoted to Assistant Professor of English.[5] The next year, she was the recipient of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library John D. and Rose H. Jackson Fellowship.[6]

In 1999, she was promoted to Associate Professor of English.[7] She took an academic leave of absence in 2004.[8] As an Associate professor, she was the recipient of the 2007 Lindback Award for excellence in teaching.[9] In 2009, she was elected to a three-year term on the Senate Committee on Academic Freedom and Responsibility.[10] That year, she also published “‘Frantic Panoramas: American Literature and Mass Culture 1870-1920.“[11]

From 2010 until 2014, Bentley sat on the American Literature Section as a Chair and member of the advisory council.[12] She also sat on the Editorial Board of The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists and American Literary History.[13][14] In April 2017, Bentley was named the Donald T. Regan Professor of English.[15]

Personal life[edit]

She is married to fellow University of Pennsylvania professor, Karl Ulrich, and they have two sons together.[16][17]

References[edit]

  1. ^ “Lindback and Provost’s Awards—Sketches of the 2007 Winners”. almanac.upenn.edu. April 17, 2007. Retrieved October 24, 2019.
  2. ^ “1979-1982 Inductees”. pes.byu.edu. Retrieved October 24, 2019.
  3. ^ O’Donnell, Heather (1998). “Review of Nancy Bentley, “The Ethnography of Manners: Hawthorne, James, Wharton” (Book Review)”. The Henry James Review. 19 (2). doi:10.1353/hjr.1998.0015. S2CID 161083881. Retrieved October 24, 2019.
  4. ^ “UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA Department of English Newsletter Winter 1994”. upenn.edu. 1994. Retrieved October 24, 2019.
  5. ^ “Faculty Appointment and Promotions, March 1995 through June 1996”. almanac.upenn.edu. Retrieved October 24, 2019.
  6. ^ “1996 SAS Faculty Honors”. sas.upenn.edu. Retrieved October 24, 2019.
  7. ^ “Faculty Appointments and Promotions January 1, 1999, through October 7, 1999”. almanac.upenn.edu. Retrieved October 24, 2019.
  8. ^ “Scholarly leave of absences” (PDF). upenn.edu. November 7, 2003. p. 13. Retrieved October 24, 2019.
  9. ^ “Lindback Awards 2007” (PDF). almanac.upenn.edu. April 17, 2007. Retrieved October 24, 2019.
  10. ^ “SENATE From the Senate Office” (PDF). upenn.edu. March 24, 2009. p. 2. Retrieved October 24, 2019.
  11. ^ Cordelia E. Barrera (2010). “Frantic Panoramas: American Literature and Mass Culture 1870–1920 by Nancy Bentley”. The Journal of Popular Culture. 43 (2): 409–411. doi:10.1111/j.1540-5931.2010.00748_1.x.
  12. ^ “American Literature Section Officers 2012”. als-mla.org. Retrieved October 24, 2019.
  13. ^ “J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists”. muse.jhu.edu. Archived from the original on October 24, 2019. Retrieved October 24, 2019.
  14. ^ “Editorial Board”. academic.oup.com. Archived from the original on October 15, 2019. Retrieved October 24, 2019.
  15. ^ “Nancy Bentley Named Donald T. Regan Professor of English”. sas.upenn.edu. April 28, 2017. Retrieved October 24, 2019.
  16. ^ “Karl T. Ulrich”. opim.wharton.upenn.edu. Retrieved September 8, 2019.
  17. ^ Pompilio, Natalie (June 2008). “Practicing What He Preaches”. whartonmagazine.com. Retrieved September 8, 2019.