Body Manufacture and the Rhetoric of Chineseness in the Body Worlds Exhibits and Beyond

Larissa Heinrich, Associate Professor in the Department of Literature at University of California, San Diego will speak on Chineseness in the body worlds exhibits at Columbia University.

Larissa Heinrich received her Master’s degree in Chinese Literature from Harvard University in 1995, and the Ph.D. in Chinese Studies from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2002. Previously she taught at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia; as a visitor at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; and at Reed College, in Portland, Oregon. She has received fellowships, research support, and publication subsidies from the Fulbright-Hays Program, the Australian Academy of the Humanities, the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation, the Association for Asian Studies, and others. Her research interests include literary and cultural figurings of science and medicine; cultural notions of authenticity, copyright, replication, and reproduction; the use of visual culture in literary studies; science fiction and utopian imaginings; and global queer cultures. She is co-editor with Fran Martin of Embodied Modernities: Corporeality and Representation in Chinese Cultures (University of Hawai’i Press, 2006).