Nathan K. Hensley is&nbsp;associate&nbsp;professor of English at Georgetown University and the author of&nbsp;Forms of Empire: The Poetics of Victorian Sovereignty. He was born and raised in Fresno, California.

Nathan K. Hensley

Remapping White Childhood: On Fresno Redlining

"You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to." — Molly Ivins

Politics

"Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history." — George Bernard Shaw

History

Our Ghosts: On Japanese Internment in Fresno

"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them." — Federico García Lorca

Nonfiction

Nathan K. Hensley is&nbsp;associate&nbsp;professor of English at Georgetown University and the author of&nbsp;Forms of Empire: The Poetics of Victorian Sovereignty. He was born and raised in Fresno, California.