Rate Professor Nancy Bentley

Academic Background

Ph.D., Harvard University, specializing in 19th- and 20th-century American literature and culture.

Research Interests

American literature and culture; sexuality; kinship studies; law and literature; history of American and African American literature; New World kinship and the American novel.

Appointments

Donald T. Regan Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania; former Chair, Department of English; member, Faculty Senate’s Committee on Academic Freedom and Responsibility; Penn Arts and Sciences Personnel Committee.

Awards

Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching.

Publications

• Frantic Panoramas: American Literature and Mass Culture, 1870-1920, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009.
• The Ethnography of Manners, Cambridge University Press, 1996.
• Essays in Critical Inquiry, ALH, American Literature, ELH, NOVEL, Chicago-Kent Law Review.

Additional Contributions

Interviewed on kinship work by Transatlantica journal.