Background
BENTLEY, Gerald was born on August 23, 1930 in Chicago, 111. Son of Gerald Eades Bentley and Esther Felt Bentley.
scholar and professor of English
BENTLEY, Gerald was born on August 23, 1930 in Chicago, 111. Son of Gerald Eades Bentley and Esther Felt Bentley.
Princeton University and Oxford University, United Kingdom.
Instructor, University of Chicago Department, of English 1956-1960. Assistant, later full Professor, of English, University of Toronto, Canada since 1960. Fulbright Lecturer, University of Algiers 1967-1968, University of Poona, India 1975-1976, Fudan University, Shanghai, People"s Republic of China 1982-1983.
Visiting Fellow, University College, Swansea 1985, University of Hyderabad (India) 1988, Fudan University (China) 1988.
Guggenheim Fellow, London 1958-1959. Fellow of Canada Council and successor Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada 1963-1964, 1970-1971, 1977-1978, 1984-1985.
Harold White Fellow, National Library of Australia 1989. Company-founder Conference on Editorial Problems since 1964, currently Chairman.
Married Elizabeth Budd in 1952.