Nancy Ann Bentley is the Donald T. Regan Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania.
[5] The next year, she was the recipient of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library John D. and Rose H. Jackson Fellowship.
"[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.
[15] She is married to fellow University of Pennsylvania professor, Karl Ulrich, and they have two sons together.