Nathan K. Hensley

Nathan K. Hensley is 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. With Philip Steer (Massey University, NZ), he is coeditor of Ecological Form: System and Aesthetics in the Age of Empire (Fordham UP, 2019).

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Hensley was born in Fresno, California, and holds degrees from Vassar College (B.A.), the University of Notre Dame (M.A.), and Duke (Ph.D), where he was also a Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellow. Before coming to Georgetown, he was assistant professor of English at Macalester College. He lives in Silver Spring, Maryland.