Nate Heneghan
Seattle, WA
About
Nate Heneghan is an independent scholar, poet, playwright, and punk rock drummer based in Seattle, WA. He received his PhD from the University of Southern California, and his research examines the evolution of Zainichi Korean representation in literature and film from the colonial period to present. His current project explores notions of confession and “coming out” in recent Zainichi cultural production.
Nathaniel’s recent programs
- Workshop Double Desire: Navigating Post-3/11 Relationships in Hamaguchi Ryūsuke’s “Asako I & II” (2018) – NCTA Online Film Club (May 2024)
- Workshop Collaboration and Subversion—Reconsidering Colonial Era Cinema in “Tuition”(1940), online program (2023)
- Workshop Animating Catastrophe—Collective Trauma, Memory, and Reconciliation in the Anime Film “your name.” （君の名は。(kimi no na wa), 2016) (2022)
- Workshop Locating Korean-ness in Postcolonial Japan: Zainichi Korean Identity in the documentary film “Our School” (2021)