School of Languages & Linguistics French, Italian and Spanish Studies

Dr Tess Do

Lecturer - French Studies

Contact

Tel. 8344 6987
email: dot@ unimelb.edu.au
room 636, Arts Centre Building

Biography

BA (Auckland); MA (Auckland); PhD (Western Ontario).

Research field and areas of supervision

Tess Do’s research interests include francophone cultural studies, post-colonialism, immigration and French literary awards (Prix Femina, Prix Goncourt).  She has published articles on Francophone-Vietnamese writers (Linda Lê and Jean Vanmai) and is currently working on a major project exploring the concept of the homeland in the narratives of Linda Lê, Kim Lefèvre, and Anna Moï. Recently her research has extended to Vietnamese cinema focusing on the films by Le Hoang, Victor Vu, Tran Anh Hung, and Tony Bui.

Publications

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