Benjamin Fancy provides intellectual and administrative leadership for the Writing Center—the Writing Program's one-on-one conferencing service. The Writing Center is staffed by peer Fellows (Princeton undergraduate and graduate students as well as Writing Program faculty) who work with student writers at all levels on their writing and at any stage of the writing process.

Outside of his administrative role, Ben studies the literature and culture of early modern France. His past work has explored conventions and practices surrounding narration, mourning, and the self in seventeenth-century French literature. Ben's research interests also include language and writing pedagogy.