Dr Nathalie Nguyen

Biography

Dr Nathalie Nguyen holds an Australian Research Fellowship from the Australian Research Council 2005-2010 for her project Vietnamese Women: Voices and Narratives of the Diaspora. She is also the recipient of a 2007 Harold White Fellowship from the National Library of Australia.

Nathalie is a graduate of the Universities of Melbourne (BA Hons) and Oxford (DPhil). She was awarded the Professor Alan Rowland Chisholm Memorial Prize and the Dwight Final Examination Prize at Melbourne, and won a Commonwealth Scholarship and Fellowship Award to do her doctorate at Oxford, where she specialized in Vietnamese Francophone literature. On returning to Australia, Nathalie taught French at the Universities of Adelaide and Newcastle before taking up her ARC Fellowship at Melbourne.

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Research

Nathalie’s work focuses on women's written and oral narratives. It encompasses oral histories of Vietnamese women, as well as a comparative literary analysis of the published memoirs of Vietnamese women in the 4 major countries of resettlement in the West.

Her book Voyage of Hope: Vietnamese Australian Women’s Narratives (Common Ground Publishing, 2005) was shortlisted for the prestigious 2007 New South Wales Premier’s Literary Award in the Community Relations Commission Award category.

Her first book Vietnamese Voices: Gender and Cultural Identity in the Vietnamese Francophone Novel (Southeast Asia Publications, Northern Illinois University, 2003) was nominated for 4 international awards, including the MLA Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for French and Francophone Studies and the Kiriyama Prize.

She is currently working on her third book, Memory is Another Country: Women of the Vietnamese Diaspora.

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Publications

Books

• Nguyen, N.H.C. (in progress) Memory is Another Country: Women of the Vietnamese Diaspora
• Nguyen, N.H.C. (forthcoming 2008) Hành Trình Hy Vong, Melbourne: Australian Vietnamese Women’s Welfare Association
• Nguyen, N.H.C. (2005) Voyage of Hope: Vietnamese Australian Women’s Narratives, Altona, Vic.: Common Ground Publishing. xvi + 207 pp. Includes bibliographical references and index
  *Shortlisted for the 2007 New South Wales Premier’s Literary Award
• Nguyen, N.H.C. (2003) Vietnamese Voices: Gender and Cultural Identity in the Vietnamese Francophone Novel, DeKalb, Ill.: Southeast Asia Publications, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Northern Illinois University. Monograph Series on Southeast Asia Number 6. xi + 239pp. Includes bibliographical references and index

Book Chapters

• Nguyen, N.H.C. (2007) “Landscapes of War: Traumascapes in the Works of Kim Lefèvre and Phan Huy Duong”, in Land and Landscape in Francographic Literature: Remapping Uncertain Territories Eds. Magali Compan and Katarzyna M. Pieprzak. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. pp. 88-103
• Nguyen, N. (2001) “Across Colonial Borders: Patriarchal Constraints and Vietnamese Women in the Novels of Ly Thu Ho”, in Of Vietnam: Identities in Dialogue, Eds. Jane Bradley Winston and Leakthina Chau-Pech Ollier. New York: Palgrave. pp. 193-210

Refereed Journal Articles

• Nguyen, N.H.C. (2005) “War Through Women’s Eyes: Nam Phuong’s Red on Gold and Yung Krall’s A Thousand Tears Falling”, in Intersections: Gender, History and Culture in the Asian Context, Issue 11. pp. 1-15
• Nguyen, N.H.C. (2005) “Eurasian/Amerasian Perspectives: Kim Lefèvre’s Métisse blanche (White Métisse) and Kien Nguyen’s The Unwanted”, in Asian Studies Review, 29:2. pp. 107-122
• Nguyen, N.H.C. (2004) “Images of Postwar Vietnam in Phan Huy Duong’s Un Amour métèque: nouvelles”, in The French Review. Special Issue on Le Monde Francophone. 77:6. pp. 1206-1216
• Nguyen, N.H.C. (2004) “Memory and the Vietnam War: A Daughter’s Choice in Yung Krall’s A Thousand Tears Falling”, in Asia Pacific: Perspectives, Issue 4:1. pp. 31-36
• Nguyen, N. (2004) “Le désir contrecarré: l’amour dans un contexte colonial chez Pham Duy Khiem et Truong Dinh Tri/ Albert de Teneuille”, in Etudes Francophones, 19:1. pp. 7-16
• Nguyen, N. (2003) (Reprint) “A l’écoute de Kim Lefèvre. Métisse Blanche: Un entretien avec Kim Lefèvre”, in Mots Pluriels: Revue internationale en ligne de Lettres et de Sciences Humaines, No. 23. pp. 1-7
• Nguyen, N. (2001) “Writing and Memory in Kim Lefèvre’s Autobiographical Narratives”, in Intersections: Gender, History and Culture in the Asian Context, Issue 5. pp. 1-13
• Nguyen, N. (2001) “‘Métisse Blanche’: Entretien avec Kim Lefèvre”, in Intersections: Gender, History and Culture in the Asian Context, Issue 5. pp. 1-8
• Nguyen, N. (2000) “A Classical Heroine and Her Modern Manifestation: The Tale of Kieu and its Modern Parallels in Printemps inachevé”, in The French Review, 73:3. pp. 454-462

Other Articles

• Nguyen, N. (2007) “Actualités littéraires de la francophonie vietnamienne”, in Nouvelles Etudes Francophones, 22 (1): pp. 235-236
• Nguyen, N.H.C. (2004) “Vietnamese Women’s Narratives Overseas”, in Phu Nu Viet: Bilingual Magazine in Vietnamese and English, Issue 51. pp. 59-61

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