Nathan Hensley / Instructor
Nathan K. Hensley is Associate Professor of English at Georgetown University, where he works on nineteenth-century British literature, critical theory, environmental humanities, and the novel. Other interests include Anglophone modernism and the cultures of globalization. His first book, Forms of Empire: The Poetics of Victorian Sovereignty (Oxford, 2016, paperback 2018), explores how Victorian writers expanded the capacities of literary form to account for the ongoing violence of liberal modernity. A second project is about action, and draws on ecological thinking to understand how literary works imagine categories like will and personhood in the context of failing systems. With Philip Steer (Massey University, NZ), he has coedited a collection of essays, Ecological Form: System and Aesthetics in the Age of Empire (Fordham UP, 2019 [pub. Dec., 2018); and with Tommy Davis (Ohio State), he coedited a cluster on Modernism/Modernity‘s Print + platform called “Scale and Form; or what was Global Modernism” (2018).