Larissa N HEINRICH Primary Office: LIT 342 Primary Phone: (858) 534-2395 Email: larissa@ucsd.edu Associate Professor of Modern Chinese Literature, Comparative Literature, and Cultural Studies; Visual Culture; Literary and Cultural History; Cultural and Literary Studies of Medicine and Science; Transnational Culture. 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). Her book, The Afterlife of Images: Translating the Pathological Body Between China and the West, is forthcoming from Duke University Press.

Selected Publications: 《病态的身体：林华的医学绘画》，新史学评论（1）：感觉、图像与叙事，北京：中华书局2007年版 ["The Pathological Body:  Lam Qua's Medical Paintings," trans. Liu Xian, in Xinshixue pinglun (1): ganjue, tuxiang yu xushi, ed. Nianqun YANG, Beijing:  Zhonghua Books, 2007]. "How China Became the Cradle of Smallpox:  Transformations in Discourse, 1726-2002," positions:  east asia cultures critique, 15.1 (2007): 7-34. "Souvenirs of the Organ Trade:  The Diasporic Body in Contemporary Chinese Literature and Art," Embodied Modernities:  Corporeality and Representation in Chinese Cultures, Larissa Heinrich and Fran Martin eds. (Honolulu:  University of Hawai’i Press, 2006):  134-153.  "The Pathological Empire:  Early Medical Photography in China," History of Photography, 30.1 (2006):  26-37. "The Establishment of 'Urban Health Demonstration Districts' and the Supervision of Life and Death in Early Republican Beijing," by Yang Nianqun [Translation].  East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine, v. 22 (2004):  68-95. "Handmaids to the Gospel:  Lam Qua's Medical Portraiture," Tokens of Exchange:  The Problem of Translation in Global Circulations, ed. Lydia Liu (Durham:  Duke University Press, 2000):  239 - 275.