| phungkien@vnu.edu.vn / phungkien03@gmail.com | |
| Position | Senior Lecturer |
| Units | Faculty of Literature |

I. BRIEF BIOGRAPHY
Full name: PHUNG NGOC KIEN Gender: Male
Date of birth: February 16, 1976 Place of birth: Hanoi
Place of origin: Nam Dinh (formerly) Ethnicity: Kinh
Highest degree: PhD; Year and country of degree: 2014, France.
Highest academic title: Associate Professor; Year of recognition: 2019
First appointing institution: Academy of Social Sciences, Vietnam Academy of Science; Year of appointment: 2019
Current workplace: Department of Cinema and Popular Arts, Faculty of Literature, University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University, Hanoi.
Second appointing institution: University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University, Hanoi; Year of appointment: 2024
Private accommodation or contact address: Faculty of Literature, 336 Nguyen Trai Street, Thanh Xuan District, Hanoi.
Phone: 0978593976 Email:phungkien@vnu.edu.vnorphungkien03@gmail.com
II. TRAINING PROCESS
1. University:
Training system: Full-time
Training institution: Faculty of Literature, Hanoi Pedagogical University Major: Literature
Country of training: Vietnam Year of graduation: 1996
2. Postgraduate
Master's degree in: Foreign Literature Year of degree: 2001
- Training institution: Faculty of Literature, Hanoi Pedagogical University, Vietnam.
Master's Degree: Master 2 (2005-2006) Year of completion: 2007
- Place of study: Université Aix-Marseille (Republic of France)
PhD in French Literature and Comparative Literature (2010-2013) Year of degree: 2014
- Place of training: Université Paris-Diderot (Paris VII) (Republic of France).
- Thesis name: Les Marqueurs de personne dans les traductions en vietnamien de Flaubert.
Foreign languages: French: proficient
He: quite
III. PROFESSIONAL WORK EXPERIENCE
| Time | Workplace | Job responsibilities |
| 2003-2016 | Foreign Literature Department, Institute of Literature | Researcher |
| 2014-2016 | Foreign Literature Department, Institute of Literature | Deputy Head of Department, NCV |
| 2017-2018 | Editorial Department of the Journal of Literary Studies | Head of Department, NCVC |
| 2018-November 2023 | Foreign Literature Department | Head of Department, NCVCC |
| November 2023 – July 2024 | Foreign Literature Department | NCVCC |
| August 2024 to present | Department of Cinema and Popular Arts, Faculty of Literature | Senior Lecturer |
IV. SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH PROCESS
1. Some key scientific research topics
| TT | Research topic title/Application field | Year of completion | Level-up topic | Responsibility for participation in the project |
| Literary theory trends of the 20th century (2003-2005) | 2005 | Ministry-level project | Member | |
| Sociology of Literature (2007-2008) | 2008 | Ministry-level task | Key members | |
| Narratology, Theory and Application (2009-2010) | 2010 | Ministry-level projects | Key members | |
| Trends in French literary criticism theory in the 20th century (2011-2012). | 2013 | NAFOSTED Fund | Key members | |
| The Reception of French Literature in Vietnam from the Perspective of Complex Theory (2012-2013). | 2014 | NAFOSTED Fund | Key members | |
| Themes of Romanticism (2015-2016) | Ministry-level project | Main member lock | ||
| This study compares Vietnamese literature of the early 20th century with French literature. | 2022 | Funded by Nafosted | Presiding | |
| Literature of the French Resistance | 2023 | Individual projects at the grassroots level | Presiding | |
| Some characteristics of migrant literature (a study of literary creation practices in several countries around the world) (chaired by Dr. Do Thi Huong) | 2024 | Ministry-level research project | Member | |
| "Research on Vietnamese literary institutions during the period 1930-1945", (chaired by Dr. Doan Anh Duong), Institute of Literature, 2022-2024. | 2024 | Ministry-level research project | Member | |
| The Birth of the Modern Writer | 2025-2028 | Funded by Nafosted, Project Code: 602.04-2024.09. | Presiding |
2. Published scientific works: (title of work, year of publication, place of publication...)
| No. | Project name | Year of publication | Magazine name | Main author/co-author | ISI/Scopus/Other indexed journals |
| Epic time style in the novel The Sea Workers | 2002 |
Journal of Literary Studies | Independent author | ||
| The absurd rhythm and silences in Madame Bovary's novel | 2003 | Journal of Scientific Research, University of Education | Independent author | ||
| The period of reflection is a dramatic destruction in Madame Bovary's novel. | 2004 | Journal of Scientific Research, University of Education | Independent author | ||
| G. Flaubert and 20th-century novels | 2004 | Journal of Literary Studies | Independent author | ||
| The history of Western literature through the eyes of E. Auerbach | 2005 | Journal of Literary Studies (http://vienvanhoc.org.vn/reader/?id=178&menu=74) | Independent author | ||
| Concepts of French Literature in the 20th Century (joint translation) | 2005 | Literature Publishing House, 2005, 381 pages, 13x19 cm format. | Loc Phuong Thuy ch.b. | ||
| Comparative literature: research and prospects | 2005 | Selected by Tran Dinh Su, La Nham Thin, and Le Luu Oanh, University of Education Publishing House, 2005, pp. 68-83. | Independent author | ||
| The limitations in the innovative spirit of prose in Thạch Lam's short stories. | 2007 | Annual Journal of Vietnamese Studies, Hamburg Institute of Vietnamese Studies (Hamburger Gesellschaft für Vietnamistik eV (HGV), Germany) | Independent author | ||
| Limitations on the reception of Madame Bovary in Vietnam (through the case of translations) | 2007 | Journal of Literary Studies
| Independent author | ||
| The narrative structure in "Without a Family" and its reception in Vietnam. | 2007 | Foreign Literature Magazine | Independent author | ||
| Foreign literary criticism of the 20th century (joint translation) | 2007 | Education Publishing House, 2007. | Loc Phuong Thuy ch.b. | ||
| Guy de Maupassant, coll."Bibliographie des Écrivains Français" | 2008 | Y. Leclerc, N. Benhamou, E. Vincent (dir.), Turnhout, Brepols Publishers, 1690 p. Entry from Maupassant au Vietnam.http://www.fabula.org/actualites/y-leclerc-n-benhamou-e-vincent-dir-guy-de-maupassant_29363.phporhttp://www.brepols.net/Pages/ShowProduct.aspx?prod_id=IS-9788886609500-1 | Co-author of Maupassant entries in Vietnam. | ||
| "A sociological study of the case of Tran Dan" | 2009 | Vietnamese Literature Studies - Possibilities and Challenges, part of the Harvard-Yenching Social Sciences and Humanities series, World Publishing House, 434 pages, 16x24 cm format.http://www.harvard-yenching.org/publications-and-projects/vietnamese-publication-series/) | Independent author | ||
| La Structure du récit dans « Sans famille » et sa réception au Vietnam | 2009 | L'Oeuvre pour la jeunesse d'Hertor Malot (Une lecture contemporaine internationale), sous la direction de Jean Foucault, L'Harmatan (http://www.editions-harmattan.fr/index.asp?navig=catalogue&sr=7), 215 pages, size 14x21, ISBN 978-2-296-09945-6. | Independent author | ||
| "The Giát Market" from a contemporary perspective. | 2010 | Journal of Literary Studies | Independent author | ||
| The aesthetic experience of Vietnamese literature in 1936 through Hoai Thanh's "Literature and Action". | 2012 | Journal of Literary Studies | Independent author | ||
| The issue of the subject of speech in Vu Trong Phung's works. | 2013 | Journal of Literary Studies | Independent author | ||
| Discussing the effects of reading foreign literary criticism, the case of the translation of "The Zero Degree of Writing" | 2014 | Journal of Literary Studies | Independent author | ||
| French Romantic literature and the mission of freedom. | 2014 | Journal of Literary Studies | Independent author | ||
| Corneille's plays in the Nam Phong magazine and the construction of the founding myth. | 2014 | Nghe An Culture Magazine | Independent author | ||
| Sociology of Literature | 2014 | Loc Phuong Thuy, Nguyen Phuong Ngoc, Phung Ngoc Kien), National University Publishing House 2014/2018, 539 pages, 16x24 size, ISBN 978-604-939-549-9. | Co-author | ||
| « La traduction de Corneille en vietnamien dans la revue de Nam Phong » | 2014 | Théâtres français et vietnamien : un siècle d'échanges (1900-2008). Réception adaptation, metissage Corinne Flicker and Nguyen Phuong Ngoc chaired, coll. Textuelles, 178 pp., size 14.5x24, ISBN 987-2-85399-960-1, ISSN 1761-4481, PUP, November 2014. | Independent author | ||
| Mimesis - a mode of expressing reality in Western literature (E. Auerbach) | 2014 | Tri Thuc Publishing House, 707 pages, 16x24 cm format, Tinh Hoa book series. | Independent translation | ||
| The journalistic novel form in "Madame Bovary", | 2015 | Journal of Literary and Artistic Criticism | Independent author | ||
| « Lire Rousseau au Vietnam dans le premierquart du XXe siècle » in Rousseau Studies | 2015 | Rousseau en Asie, Geneva, p. 97-109, no3, revue annuelle editée par les Editions Slatkine, Geneva, 2015. Directeur et Fondateur de publication : Tanguy L'Aminot et Catherine Labro.Un volume 14.5x20.5 cm de 392 p.http://rousseaustudies.free.fr/,ISBN 978-2-05-102739-7.
| Independent author | ||
| Traductions de Madame Bovary au Vietnam, vues des marqueurs de personnes dans les dialogues | 2015 | CEV (Cahier d'étude vietnamienne), no 24, Paris-Diderot | Independent author | ||
| "The 'New Version of The Tale of Kieu' in the first three decades of the 20th century" | 2015 | Proceedings of Literary Heritage: The Great Poet Nguyen Du, 250 Years in Retrospect, Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences and Institute of Literature, Social Sciences Publishing House, pp. 313-333, 19x27 cm, ISBN 978-604-944-450-0. | Independent author | ||
| "The emergence of literature in the modernization process at the beginning of the century" | 2015 | Adopting Foreign Literary Ideas and Modern Vietnamese Experiences (by Loc Phuong Thuy, Huynh Nhu Phuong, and La Khac Hoa, editors), National University Publishing House, 421 pages, 16x24 cm format, ISBN 978-604-62-3340-4. | Independent author | ||
| Some issues regarding the reception of French literature in Vietnam from the perspective of complex theory. | 2015 | (Edited by Nguyen Duy Binh, Phung Ngoc Kien and Dinh Tri Dung), Vinh University Publishing House, 353 pages, 14.5x20.5 cm format, ISBN 978-604-923-087-5. | Co-author | ||
| Introducing French literature in Vietnam: a manifestation of indigenous literature in a colonial context. | 2016 | Journal of Literary Studies | Independent author | ||
| Modern French novels viewed from the perspective of the 2013 Goncourt Prize. | 2016 | Journal of Literary and Artistic Criticism | Independent author | ||
| "Like Cromwell," it's more than just a romantic declaration. | 2016 | Journal of Literary Studies | Independent author | ||
| “La lecture de Rousseau au Vietnam pendant la Guerrefroide” in Rousseau et la Guerre froide | 2016 | Rousseau Studies, no 4, revue annuelle éditée par les Editions Slatkine, Geneva 2016, Directeur et Fondateur de publication : Tanguy L'Aminot et Catherine Labro. Un volume 14.5x20.5 cm de 354 p. ISBN 978-2-05-102795-3,http://rousseaustudies.free.fr/ | Independent author | ||
| Literary translation is always a violation. | 2016 | Proceedings of the International Conference on Literary Translation, Faculty of Literature, National University Publishing House. | Independent author | ||
| "Anyone who reads Nguyen Huy Thiep's work will find a textual sociology on literary phenomena." | 2016 | Proceedings of Vietnamese Literature in the Context of Renovation and International Integration, Institute of Literature, Vol. 1, pp. 432-445, Social Sciences Publishing House, 559 pages, 16x24 format. | Independent author | ||
| A model of education that shaped art schools in the early 20th century. | 2016 | Proceedings of 30 Years of Innovation in Literature, Art, and Sino-Vietnamese Studies: Achievements, Problems, and Prospects, pp. 519-531, National University Publishing House, 794 pages, 16x24 format. | Independent author | ||
| "Aesthetic experience in Vietnamese literature of the 1930s through the case of Literature and Action" | 2016 | Approaching Asian literature from the perspective of modern Western theory, Tran Hai Yen, PhD, Social Sciences Publishing House, 2016, pp. 348-396. | Independent author | ||
| "Further discussion on art for art's sake," | 2016 | The facets of literary history, the book series "Understanding Vietnam" (Do Lai Thuy, editor, Vietnam Writers Association Publishing House and SongThuybookstore, pp. 61-103, 356 pages, 16x24 format). | Independent author | ||
| The dream-memories of Baudelaire and Han Mac Tu | 2017 | Journal of Literary Studies ISSN 0494-6928.
| Independent author | ||
| The formation of literary schools at the beginning of intellectual schools in the 1920s. | 2017 | Journal of Literary Studies
| Independent author | ||
| Read short stories, (Grojnowski) | 2017 | Tao Dan-Vietnam Writers Association, 2017, 320 pages, 14x20.5 cm format, ISBN 978-604-53-9172-3. | Translated jointly with Tran Hinh | ||
| Parallel worlds, possibilities and limitations of literary reinterpretation (research from the Vietnamese translation of Flaubert) | 2017 | Tri Thuc Publishing House, 335 pages, 16x24 cm format, ISBN 978-604-943-4679. | Independent author | ||
| Creating a new world through the first-person perspective in Proust's novels. | 2018 | Journal of Literary and Artistic Theory and Criticism | Independent author | ||
| When the dramatic genre awakens in Luu Quang Vu's plays | 2018 | Proceedings of the National Conference “Luu Quang Vu, Artistic Dialogues”, Institute of Literature and Duy Tan University, Da Nang Publishing House, pp. 405-413. ISBN 978-604-84-3417-5. | Independent author | ||
| Rules of Art (P. Bourdieu) | 2018 | Tri Thuc Publishing House, 564 pages, Tinh Hoa book series. | Translated jointly with Nguyen Phuong Ngoc | ||
| A way of writing the history of contemporary French literature. | 2019 | JST TNU online, 225 (15), ISSN1859-2171, 2374-9098;e-ISSN2615-9562, p. 187 – 195,http://jst.tnu.edu.vn/jst/article/view/3847. | Independent author | ||
| Bourgeois tastes in new paintings in Phong Hoa newspaper (1932), | 2019 | Journal of Literary Studies ISSN 0494-6928.
| Independent author | ||
| The structure of the French literary school in the first half of the 20th century. | 2020 | Journal of Literary Studies | Independent author | ||
| "The Self-Reliance Literary Group and New Aesthetic Standards: Seeking Literary Autonomy Through Journalism" | 2020 | Modern Culture (multiple authors), Vietnam Writers Association & Tao Dan Publishing House, 2020, pp. 130-206. | Independent author | ||
| Représentations françaises dans la presse coloniale, cas de Phong Hoa | 2020 | Hanoi-Paris, un nouvel espace des sciences-humaines, Ed. Kimé pp. 589-611 ISBN 978-2-84174-957-7,http://www.editionskime.fr/publications/hanoi-paris/ | Independent author | ||
| Capital accumulation in the literary scene at the beginning of the last century involved the absorption of foreign literary capital. | 2021 | Journal of Literary Studies | Independent author | ||
| Myth and reality in a Tale by Flaubert | 2021 | Journal of Literary Studies | Independent author | ||
La presentation of Rousseau dans the revue Nam Phong. La Lutte d'idées dans le champ littéraire colonial
| 2021 | La Portail France-Vietnam, (chaired by Nguyen Giang-Huong) Kime, 2021, pp. 189-218. | Independent author | ||
| The Autonomization of French and Vietnamese Literature: Comparing Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880) and Vu TrongPhung (1912-1939), | 2022 | SUVANNABHUMI Vol 14, No 1 ISSN 2092-738X, p. 109-132.
| Independent author | Scorpio | |
| The Western-educated generation in New Poetry: Breakaway and Innovation | 2022 | Journal of Literary and Artistic Theory and Criticism | Independent author | ||
| Industrial literature in 19th-century French newspapers | 2022 | Journal of Literary Studies | Independent author | ||
| The pioneering role of Surrealism in European literature at the beginning of the 20th century. | 2022 | Journal of Literary and Artistic Theory and Criticism | Independent author | ||
| Modern Poetry and the Self-Reliance Literary Group within the structure of Vietnamese literary schools during the colonial period. | 2022 | Journal of Literary Studies | Independent author | ||
| The Eastern landscape as seen through the eyes of a writer during the Second Empire. | 2022 | Journal of Social Sciences, Humanities and Education, Da Nang University of Education | Independent author | ||
| Historical films as a subgenre, the case of "Heroic Destiny" | 2023 | Journal of Literary and Artistic Theory and Criticism | Independent author | ||
| The “presences” absent from Linda Le’s world | 2023 | Journal of Literary Studies | Independent author | ||
| Establishing national identity in Nguyen Ai Quoc's French-language fiction works during the first 30 years of the 20th century. | 2023 | Journal of Literary Studies | Independent author | ||
| "The Silence of the Sea" – the writer's voice in the face of the invaders. | 2023 | Journal of Literary and Artistic Theory and Criticism | Independent author | ||
| Geographical map of the structure of the literary school during the colonial period. | 2023 | Vietnamese landscapes in literature and cinema: cross-cultural approaches, Hanoi National University Publishing House, pp. 284-308. | Independent author | ||
| Literary autonomy and the mission of freedom (monograph) | 2023 | Writers' Association Publishing House - Tao Dan, ISBN 978-604-473-416-3 | Editor | ||
| Vietnamese revolutionary literature before 1945 viewed from the perspective of literary sociology. | 2024 | Journal of Literary and Artistic Theory and Criticism | Independent author | ||
| Literary cityscape in the sociological topology before 1945 au Vietnam, | 2024 | Landscape Research, Routledge, https://doi.org/10.1080/01426397.2024.2399637
| Independent author | Scorpio | |
| The role of journalism and publishing in literature during economic transformation. | 2024 | Capital University Science Journal ISSN 2354-1512 | Independent author | ||
| Aesthetics of Film (multiple authors, translated) | 2024 | Tao Dan - Vietnam Writers Association 2024, 15x24 cm format, 357 pages. | Independent translation | ||
| Comparative literature as a way to construct independent modernity for national literature. | 2025 | Journal of Literary and Artistic Theory and Criticism | Independent author | ||
| Minority literary institutions of Francophone Vietnamese literature before 1945 | 2025 | Journal of Interdisciplinary Science and Arts, ISSN 3093-3250, School of Interdisciplinary Science and Arts, Vietnam National University, Hanoi https://joisa.edu.vn/index.php/joisa/article/view/44
| Independent author | ||
| 17th-century French writers as "literary authors" | 2025 | Journal of Literary and Artistic Criticism, 0866-7349, issue 10. | Independent author | ||
| Searching for glimpses of the "homeland" in the memories of a French-Vietnamese female writer, | 2025 | Journal of Literary and Artistic Criticism, 0866-7349, No. 12, pp. 44-54. | Independent author | ||
| The problem facing French cinema now lies with the public. | 2025 | Journal of Literary and Artistic Criticism, 0866-7349, issue 9 | Independent author | ||
| “La vie à Hai Phong, imaginaires du port depuis la terre” (ch.22) | 2025 | Du Port au monde, une histoire globale des ports indochinoises, Presses universitaires de Nouvelle-Aquitaine, La Geste éditions, 496pp. https://www.academieoutremer.fr/2026/01/05/parution-de-louvrage-du-port-au-monde-une-histoire-globale-des-ports-indochinois/ | Independent author | ||
| Sociology of Film, Postgraduate Course | 2025 | Hanoi National University Publishing House, Science Book Series MS 628-KHXH-2025. | Independent author | ||
| Literary institutions within the literary school | 2026 | Journal of Literary Studies, No. 2 | Independent author |