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DR TESS DO



Contact Details

Organization: Languages and Linguistics
Position: LECTURER IN FRENCH
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Homepage: http://www.fritss.unimelb.edu.au/about/staff/do.html
Work: 8344 6987
Fax: 9347 2489
Room: 636
Level: 06
Building: Arts Centre
Campus: Parkville

Biography

Dr Do's article "Bargirls and Street Cinderella: Women, Sex and Prostitution in Le Hoang's Commercial films", Asian Studies Review, Vol. 30, Special Issue, June 2006: 175-188 was translated into French under the following title and was published in this book:

“Filles de bar et cendrillons de la rue: femmes, sexe et prostitution dans le cinema commercial de Le Hoang”, Le cinema vietnamien/ Vietnamese Cinema , Asiexpo Edition, Lyon 2007, pp. 153-174

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Country of Expertise
Francophone literature France, Viet Nam, Canada, New Caledonia
French Womens Writing France, Canada
Vietnamese cinema Viet Nam, United States of America

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Arts (honours) The University of Auckland 31-Dec-1989
Master of Arts The University of Auckland 31-Dec-1991
Doctor of Philosophy University of Western Ontario 31-Dec-1998

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Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2008

Book Chapters

  • Exile: Rupture and continuity in Jean Vanmai's Chân Dang  and Fils de Chân Dang


    Year: 2008
    Book: Exile cultures, misplaced identities
    Publisher: Rodopi(Amsterdam)
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Journal Articles

  • Outsider and insider views of Saigon/Ho Chi Minh City: The Lover/L'Amant, Cyclo/Xích lô, Collective Flat/Chung cu and Bargirls/Gái nhay


    Year: 2008
    Journal: Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography
    Volume: 29
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 55-67
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  • Guilt and betrayal in the works of Azouz Begag and Linda Lê
    Year: 2008
    Journal: French Cultural Studies
    Volume: 19
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 39-56
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Publications in 2006

Journal Articles

  • Bargirls and Street Cinderella: Women, Sex and Prostitution in Le Hoang's Commercial films
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Asian Studies Review
    Volume: 30
    Page numbers: 175-188
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Publications in 2005

Book Chapters

  • From incest to exile: Linda Lê and the incestuous Vietnamese immigrants
    Year: 2005
    Book: France and "Indochina": Cultural representations
    Publisher: Lexington Books(Lanham)
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Journal Articles

  • Exile: Rupture and continuity in Jean Vanmai's Chan Dang and Fils de Chan Dang
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Portal
    Volume: 2
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 1-20
    Publisher: University of Technology, Sydney, Institute for International Studies(Sydney)
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Publications in 2004

Journal Articles

  • Entre salut et damnation: métaphores chez Linda Lê
    Year: 2004
    Journal: French Cultural Studies
    Volume: 15
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 142-157
    Publisher: Sage Publications
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  • The Vietnamese cooking legacy: A cultural and post-colonial exploration of food metaphors in Linda Lê's Les Trois Parques
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Essays in Modern Italian & French Literature: in recollection of Tom O'Neill - Spunti e ricerche
    Volume: Special edition
    Page numbers: 40-49
    Publisher: Spunti e Ricerche
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Publications in 2003

Conference Publications/Papers

  • Nourriture ou pourriture: une exploration de l'impact post-colonial du patrimoine français parmi les immigrants vietnamiens dans les romans de Linda Lê
    Year: 2003
    Event name: 15th C.O.R.A.I.L. conference: "Les vivres & le vivre en Oceanie"
    Conference Publication: Food and lifestyles in Oceania - Actes du Colloque C.O.R.A.I.L. 2002
    Page numbers: 141-151
    Publisher: C.O.R.A.I.L. & University of New Caledonia(Noumea)
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Publications in 2001

Book Chapters

  • Qui a créé la créatrice? De la création du texte de femme à la création du "meilleur livre de l'année"


    Year: 2001
    Book: Repenser les processus createurs - Rethinking creative processes
    Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing(New York)
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Journal Articles

  • Confessor and female sinner: conversion and subversion in Léon Morin, Prêtre by Béatrix Beck
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Women in French Studies
    Volume: 9
    Issue: 2001
    Page numbers: 79-91
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