Nancy Bentley

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]

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