School of Languages & Linguistics French, Italian and Spanish Studies

Recent publications

Journal Articles and Book Chapters

Lay-Chenchabi, Kathryn and Tess Do. “Guilt and Betrayal in the Works of Azoug Begag and Linda Lê”, French Cultural Studies, February 2008: 39-56.

Do, Tess. "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.
This article was translated into French and published in Le cinema vietnamien / Vietnamese Cinema, ed Jean-Pierre Gimenez, Asiexpo Edition, 2007

Do, Tess. "From Incest to Exile: Linda Lê and the Incestuous Vietnamese Immigrants" in Indochina, India and France: Cultural Representations, ed. Jennifer Yee and Kathryn Robson, Lexington Books, 2005: 165-177.

Do, Tess. “Exile: Rupture and Continuity in Jean Vanmai's Chan Dang and Fils de Chan Dang” in Portal (e-Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies), July-August 2005. http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/ojs/index.php/portal/article/view/113

Do, Tess. "The Vietnamese Cooking Legacy: A Cultural and Post-colonial Exploration of Food Metaphors in Linda Lê's Les Trois Parques", in Essays in Modern Italian & French Literature, Special Number “In Recollection of Tom O’ Neill”, ed. Alaistair Hurst & Tony Pagliaro, Spurti e Ricerche, 2004: 40-49.

Do, Tess. "Entre salut et damnation: une exploration de l'héritage post-colonial des exilés vietnamiens à travers les métaphors de la nourriture chez Linda Lê" French Cultural Studies, July 2004: 142-157.

Do, Tess. "Nourriture ou pourriture: une exploration de l'impact post-colonial du patrimoine français parmi les immigrants vietnamiens dans les romans de Linda Lê" in Food and Lifestyles in Oceania, Actes du Colloque CORAIL 2002, ed. Sonia Lacabanne, Noumea, 2003: 141-155.

Do, Tess. "Confesseur et pécheresse: conversion et subversion dans Léon Morin, prêtre": Women In French, 2002: 79-91.

Do, Tess. "Qui a créé la créatrice? De la création du texte de femme à la création du meilleur livre de l’année," Repenser les processus créateurs/Rethinking Creative Process, ed. Françoise Grauby, Michelle Royer, Peter Lang SA, 2001: 133-147.

Work in progress

Aspects of Saigon/Ho Chi Minh City in L’Amant/The Lover (1992), Xich lo/Cyclo (1995), Chung Cu/Collective Flat (1999) and Gai Nhay/Bar Girls (2003)

Voices beyond the grave: karma and the female ghosts in Victor Vu's Spirits

Women, gender and power in Bargirls (2003), Street Cinderella (2004) and Thieves of heart (2005)

Order and disorder in Indochine and Pepe le Moko"

"Aspects of Saigon/Ho Chi Minh City in L’Amant/The Lover (1992), Xich lo/Cyclo (1995), Chung Cu/Collective Flat (1999) and Gai Nhay/Bar Girls (2003)" (in collaboration with Dr Carrie Tarr)

"Guilt and betrayal in the works of Azoug Begag and Linda Lê" (in collaboration with Dr Kathryn Lay-Chenchabi)

"Voices beyond the grave: karma and the female ghosts in Victor Vu's Spirits"

"Masculinity in crisis? The gay man in Vietnamese commercial cinema"

“Exploring Linda Lê’s Homeland: Myth, Return and (Re)construction”.

"Order and disorder in Indochine and Pepe le Moko" (in collaboration with Dr Kathryn Lay-Chenchabi)

Research projects