Bruce Lentall co-leads CETLI at the University of Pennsylvania. He oversees the work CETLI does to support faculty, lecturers, and graduate students, setting programing priorities and developing initiatives to support teaching and learning at Penn. He also guides CETLI’s engagement in thinking about the instructional technology systems for effective teaching, and CETLI’s web-based teaching resources for instructors and staff, as well as supports the management of marketing services CETLI offers for online programs teams. He works in collaboration with schools, departments, programs, and central administration to help them develop strategies and programs to enhance their teaching and the education of their students.
Bruce is also an adjunct associate professor in the Department of History. He earned his Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Pennsylvania and his B.A. from Carleton College. Prior to returning to Penn, he taught in the history departments at Bryn Mawr College and Barnard College. In his own teaching and research, he explores 20th-century U.S. cultural, political, and social history, as well as the history of media. He is the author of a book on radio in the United States in the 1930s, “Radio America: The Great Depression and the Rise of Modern Mass Culture.”