Nancy Bentley
{{Short description|American academic}}
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M.A., PhD., English Literature, 1988, Harvard University
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Nancy Ann Bentley is the Donald T. Regan Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania.
Education
Bentley earned her Bachelor of Arts from Brigham Young University (BYU) and her Master's degree and PhD from Harvard University.{{cite journal |title=Lindback and Provost's Awards—Sketches of the 2007 Winners |url=https://almanac.upenn.edu/archive/volumes/v53/n30/awards.html |journal=University of Pennsylvania Almanac |volume=53 |issue=30 |date=17 April 2007 }} While at BYU, she was a member of Phi Eta Sigma.{{cite web |title=1979-1982 Inductees |url=https://pes.byu.edu/content/1979-1982-inductees |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130629154312/https://pes.byu.edu/content/1979-1982-inductees |archive-date=June 29, 2013 |access-date=October 24, 2019 |website=pes.byu.edu}}
Career
In 1994, Bentley published her first book "The Ethnography of Manners" through the Cambridge University Press.{{cite journal |last1=O'Donnell |first1=Heather |title=Book Review: The Ethnography of Manners: Hawthorne, James, Wharton |journal=The Henry James Review |date=1998 |volume=19 |issue=2 |pages=195–197 |id={{ProQuest|1297916577}} |doi=10.1353/hjr.1998.0015 |s2cid=161083881 }}{{cite web |title=UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA Department of English Newsletter Winter 1994 |url=http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/newsletter94.html |website=upenn.edu |access-date=October 24, 2019 |date=1994}} In 1995, she was promoted to Assistant Professor of English.{{cite journal |title=Faculty Appointment and Promotions, March 1995 through June 1996 |url=https://almanac.upenn.edu/archive/v43/n08/appoint.html |journal=Almanac |volume=43 |issue=8 |date=15 October 1996 }} The next year, she was the recipient of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library John D. and Rose H. Jackson Fellowship.{{cite web |title=1996 SAS Faculty Honors |url=https://www.sas.upenn.edu/sasalum/newsltr/winter97/Faculty.html |website=sas.upenn.edu |access-date=October 24, 2019}}
In 1999, she was promoted to Associate Professor of English.{{cite web |title=Faculty Appointments and Promotions January 1, 1999, through October 7, 1999 |url=https://almanac.upenn.edu/archive/v46/n16/Apps-Promos2K.html |website=almanac.upenn.edu |access-date=October 24, 2019}} She took an academic leave of absence in 2004.{{cite web |title=Scholarly leave of absences |url=https://archives.upenn.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/20031107res.pdf |website=upenn.edu |access-date=October 24, 2019 |page=13 |date=November 7, 2003}} As an associate professor, she was the recipient of the 2007 Lindback Award for excellence in teaching.{{cite web |title=Lindback Awards 2007 |url=https://almanac.upenn.edu/archive/volumes/v53/n30/pdf_n30/041707.pdf |website=almanac.upenn.edu |access-date=October 24, 2019 |date=April 17, 2007}} In 2009, she was elected to a three-year term on the Senate Committee on Academic Freedom and Responsibility.{{cite web |title=SENATE From the Senate Office |url=https://almanac.upenn.edu/archive/volumes/v55/n26/pdf_n26/032409.pdf |website=upenn.edu |access-date=October 24, 2019 |page=2 |date=March 24, 2009}} That year, she also published "'Frantic Panoramas: American Literature and Mass Culture 1870-1920.''"{{cite journal |author1=Cordelia E. Barrera |title=Frantic Panoramas: American Literature and Mass Culture 1870–1920 by Nancy Bentley |journal=The Journal of Popular Culture |date=2010 |volume=43 |issue=2 |pages=409–411 |doi=10.1111/j.1540-5931.2010.00748_1.x }}
From 2010 until 2014, Bentley sat on the American Literature Section as a chair and member of the advisory council.{{cite web |title=American Literature Section Officers 2012 |url=http://als-mla.org/ALSOfficers.htm |website=als-mla.org |access-date=October 24, 2019}} She also sat on the Editorial Board of The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists and American Literary History.{{cite web |title=J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/33473/doc/editorial.html |website=muse.jhu.edu |access-date=October 24, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191024210501/https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/33473/doc/editorial.html |archive-date=October 24, 2019}}{{cite web |title=Editorial Board |url=https://academic.oup.com/alh/pages/Editorial_Board |website=academic.oup.com |access-date=October 24, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191015165712/https://academic.oup.com/alh/pages/Editorial_Board |archive-date=October 15, 2019}} In April 2017, Bentley was named the Donald T. Regan Professor of English.{{cite web |title=Nancy Bentley Named Donald T. Regan Professor of English |url=https://www.sas.upenn.edu/news/nancy-bentley-named-donald-t-regan-professor-english |website=sas.upenn.edu |access-date=October 24, 2019 |date=April 28, 2017}}
Personal life
She is married to fellow University of Pennsylvania professor, Karl Ulrich, and they have two sons together.{{cite web |title=Karl T. Ulrich |url=http://opim.wharton.upenn.edu/~ulrich/bio.html |website=opim.wharton.upenn.edu |access-date=September 8, 2019}}{{cite web |last1=Pompilio |first1=Natalie |title=Practicing What He Preaches |url=http://whartonmagazine.com/issues/summer-2008/practicing-what-he-preaches/#sthash.iP4ieAuD.dpbs |website=whartonmagazine.com |date=June 2008 |access-date=September 8, 2019}}
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