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CURRICULUM VITAE

NAME: Tuan Ngoc Nguyen (in Vietnamese, with full diacritical marks: Nguyễn Ngọc Tuấn)

PEN NAME: Nguyen Hung Quoc (with full diacritical marks: Nguyễn Hưng Quốc)

QUALIFICATIONS:

• B.Ed (Vietnam)
• Ph.D. (VU, Australia)

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Vietnamese language, literature, media, and culture
• The Vietnam War
• Socialist realism in literature
• Postmodernism
• Diaspora and identity

TEACHING INTERESTS

• Vietnamese language (for beginners and advanced levels)
• Vietnamese literature and culture

TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

1993- present: Lecturer in Vietnamese Language, Literature and Culture at the School of Communication, Culture and Languages, Victoria University.

Subjects to teach:

• Vietnamese for Beginners and Advanced Vietnamese:

-         ACV1001 Basic Vietnamese A

-         ACV1002 Basic Vietnamese B

-         ACV2001 Intermediate Vietnamese A

-         ACV2002 Intermediate Vietnamese B

-         ACV3011 Vietnamese for Business

-         ACV3012 Vietnamese Folklore and Society

-         ACV3021 Vietnamese Language and Culture

-         ACV3022 Vietnamese Film and Media

-         ACV3031 Survey of Vietnamese Literature

-         ACV3032 Special Topics in Vietnamese Literature

• Many Vietnams: War, Culture, and Memory (Asian Studies)

1997:   Visiting Lecturer in Vietnamese Language and Literature at Monash University.

1995: Visiting Lecturer in Vietnamese Language and Literature at the School of Languages, the University of Melbourne.

1991- 1993: Lecturer in Vietnamese Language and Literature at

-         Department of Intercultural and Language Studies, Phillip Institute of Technology (now RMIT)

-         Department of Social Sciences (Asian Studies Program), Australian Catholic University (Mercy Campus)

-         Department of Humanities, Footscray Institute of Technology (now Victoria University)

-         Faculty of Arts, Victoria College (now Deakin University)

1979-1982: Lecturer in Vietnamese literature at the School of Education, University of Ho Chi Minh City

EDITORIAL EXPERIENCE:

• 1998 – 2001: Editor-in-chief of VIET journal (Melbourne). This journal ceased publication in the year 2001, following volume 8, however, all volumes are still available online: http://www.tienve.org/home/viet/viewVietJournals.do;jsessionid=04FDED76AEFC47128544716051617D37



• 2002- present: Co-founder and co-editor-in-chief of TIENVE, an Online Centre for Vietnamese Literature and Arts at http://tienve.org

PUBLICATIONS:

• Books (in Vietnamese):

1.                   Tìm hiểu nghệ thuật thơ Việt Nam (Understanding the Art of Vietnamese Poetry), Quê Mẹ,  Paris, 1988.



2.                   Nghĩ về thơ (Thoughts on Poetry),  Văn Nghệ, California, 1989.



3.                   Văn học Việt Nam dưới chế độ cộng sản (Vietnamese Literature under the Communist Regime, 1945-90), Văn Nghệ, California, 1991, reprinted 1996.



4.                   Thơ, v.v... và v.v... (Poetry, etc.), Văn Nghệ, California, 1996.



5.                   Võ Phiến (Vo Phien, a Great Writer), Văn Nghệ, California, 1996.



6.                   Văn học Việt Nam từ điểm nhìn h(ậu h)iện đại (Vietnamese Literature, Through a (Post)modernist View), Văn Nghệ, California, 2001.



7.                   Văn hoá văn chương Việt Nam (Literary Culture in Vietnam), Văn Mới, California, 2002.



8.                   Sống với chữ (Living with Words), Văn Mới, California, 2004.

• Chapters:

A. In English:

1.                   "Vietnamese Communist Literature, 1975-1990";
2.                   "Vietnamese Literature in Exile, 1975-1990".

Both are published in Vietnamese Studies in a Multicultural World, ed. by Nguyen Xuan Thu, Vietnamese Language & Culture Publications, Melbourne, 1994.

B. In Vietnamese:

1.                   “Nguyen Trai, a great poet” in Nguyen Trai (a Collection of Essays on Nguyen Trai), Institute of Social Sciences of Ho Chi Minh City, 1981.
2.                   "Literary Renewal in Vietnam”, an introduction written to the anthology entitled The Hundred Flowers are still Blooming in Vietnam, Le Tran, California, 1990.
3.                   “20 Years of Overseas Vietnamese Literature”, an introduction written to the anthology 20 Years of Overseas Vietnamese Literature, 1975-95, Dai Nam, California, 1995.
4.                   “Vietnamese Poetry Entering the 21th Century”, an introduction written to the anthology “26 Vietnamese Contemporary Poets”, Tan Thu, California, 2002.

• Articles:

About 100 critical writings on Vietnamese literature in major Vietnamese literary magazines such as Que Me (Paris), Van (California), Van Hoc (California), Van Lang (California), The Ky 21 (California), Hop Luu (California), Van Xa (Toronto), and Viet Journal (Melbourne).

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