University of Social Sciences and Humanities - VNU Hanoi

1. Personal Information

• Full name: CAO KIM LAN

• Academic title: Associate Professor, PhD.

• Administrative position: Head of the USSH Strong Research Group

• Affiliation and address: Institute for Interdisciplinary Policy, Innovation and Science (IPIIS), Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University, Hanoi. Address: 336 Nguyen Trai Street, Thanh Xuan District, Hanoi.

• Phone: Mobile phone: 0989200738

• Email (registered on the OMS system, if applicable): caokimlanvvh@gmail.comcaokimlanussh@vnu.edu.vn

2. Training process:

3. Work experience:

4. Foreign language (according to levels: A - Weak; B - Intermediate; C - Fair; D - Proficient)

5. Research experience and achievements

5.1. Main research directions

- Classical and post-classical narrative studies, rhetoric, semiotics, feminist theory, ecocriticism, and other literary theories.

- Research on Vietnamese culture, language, and literature.

5.2. Scientific research topics that have been and are currently being participated in:

5.3. Reference books and textbooks (in Vietnamese)

5.4. Books, book chapters, and international scientific articles in science and technology journals listed in the SCI, SCIE, SSCI, or AHCI lists of the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI), USA.

5.5. Other published scientific articles: (title of work, year of publication, place of publication...)

5.6. Scientific papers submitted to international conferences.

1. Cao Kim Lan. Sexual/Gendered Pleasure in Women's Writing: The Dual Plot as a Narrative Motivation in Y Ban's I am Woman [I am a Woman]. The Asian Conference of Arts and Humanities (ACAH 2025)

2. CAO Kim Lan and OOI Keat Gin. A Discourse on Armed Conflicts in Bao Ninh's The Sorrow of War and its Reception of International Readers. The International Scientific Conference on "Writing on Soldiers and War in Vietnam intercultural Approaches", Hanoi, Vietnam, 2024

3. Cao Kim Lan. Nationalism: A Core Factor of the Compromise in the Antagonistic Relationship between Confucianism and Feminism in Vietnam in the French Colony. iafor. THE INTERNATIONAL ACADEMIC FORUM. International – Intercultural – interdisciplinary, Japan, May 2023.

4. CAO Kim Lan and OOI Keat Gin. Neither Glorious Victory nor Endless Sufferings: A Discourse on Armed Conflicts. The 14th International Engaging with Vietnam Conference, August 2023.

5. Cao Kim Lan. Nguyen Xuan Khanh's Novel as a Narrative of the Mother Goddess Religion and this Indigenous Religion's effects in a New Context in Vietnam Today in The International Conference on Asian Linguistics Anthropology, University Putra Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2020.

6. Cao Kim Lan. Men and/in the Feminist Movement in Vietnam in the Early 20th Century”, ICAS 11. Leiden, Netherlands, 2019.

7. Cao Kim Lan. “Women and the Relationship Between Feminism and Confucianism in Vietnam in the Early 20th Century”, In Conference Theme: Alternative Approaches in Southeast Asian Studies: Compounding Area Studies and Cultural Studies, Institute for Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS), and Busan University of Foreign Studies (BUFS), Korea, 2028

8. Cao Kim Lan. “Traumatic Environment in Bao Ninh's The Sorrow of War,” The 6th International Symposium on Literature and Environment in East Asia, War and Peace: Militarism, Biopolitics and the Environment in East Asia. National University, Taipei, Taiwan, 2018

9. Cao Kim Lan. An Issue of Suicidal Woman and Feminism in Vietnam: Situations, Solutions, and its Effects on Society, International Conference on Asian Studies, Kobe, Japan, 2027.

5.7. Compiled and collected materials

[1] Nguyen Ngoc Thien, Nguyen Dang Diep, Ton Thao Mien, Cao Kim - Lan, Nguyen Thi Kieu Anh, Tran Hoai Anh, Ha Cong Tai (2004, 2005, 2008, 2009). Vietnamese Literature of the 20th Century: Theory - Criticism 1945-1975). Literature Publishing House. Volume V, Volumes I, II. (Hanoi, 2004); Volumes III, IV, V, VI (Hanoi, 2005); Volumes VII, VIII (Hanoi, 2008); Volume IX (Hanoi, 2009).

[2] Trinh Ba Dinh, Cao Kim - Lan, Nguyen Huu Son, Ton Thao Mien (2007), Vietnamese Literature of the 20th Century: Miscellaneous Essays and Vietnamese Prose Genres 1900-1945 Literature Publishing House. Hanoi. Volume III, Part: I, II, III, IV.

[3] Nguyen Ngoc Thien & Cao Kim - Lan (2002). Literary debates of the 20th century. Labor Publishing House, Volume 1: 1040 pages, Volume 2: 1195 pages. Reprinted 2025 (6 volumes, Vietnam Writers Association Publishing House)

6. Scientific awards

+ Bronze Award for Best Book, Vietnam Book Awards 2016 for the book "Implicit Authorship in Rhetoric of Novels" (published 2015, as a standalone book);

+ Third Prize, National Book Award 2019 for the book *Narratology: Theory and Application* (Published 2018, edited by Tran Dinh Su);

+ Award A, Commendation for Literary and Artistic Theory and Criticism Works of the Central Propaganda Department, Central Council for Literary and Artistic Theory and Criticism in 2020, for the book "The Magic of Storytelling" (Published 2019, individual book)

+ Certificate of Merit from the President of the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences (2023) for the Head of a Ministry-level research project that achieved excellence in 2022.

+ Certificate of Merit from the President of the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences (2025) for the Head of a Ministry-level research project that achieved excellence in 2024.

+ Certificate of Merit for outstanding achievements in scientific activities over the past 5 years (2020-2025) from VASS

+ Certificate of Merit for Scientific Research and Innovation in 2025 from USSH (2026)

7. Teaching activities

- Teaching Vietnamese students

• Bachelor's degree program:

+ General Linguistics (Hanoi University of Education 2009-2011)

+ Fundamentals of Vietnamese Culture (Hanoi University, 2014)

+ Introduction to Linguistics, Practical Vietnamese, and Comparative Linguistics for students of the International Academy, Hanoi (2016-present)

+ Narrative Studies (Hanoi University of Culture, 2019-present)

+ Literary Theory (Hanoi University of Culture, from June 2025 to present)

+ Vietnamese Literature in the East Asian World (University of Social Sciences and Humanities, from September 2026)

+ Food Culture (University of Social Sciences and Humanities, from September 2026)

- Postgraduate studies:

+ History of Vietnamese Literary Criticism (Thai Nguyen University)

+ Western Aesthetics (Institute of Social Sciences, Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences, 2023-2024)

+ Vietnamese Literature in the Process of Integration and Development (University of Social Sciences and Humanities, from January 2026 to present)

- Teaching to foreign students

+ Fundamentals of Vietnamese Culture (Hanoi University, 2013-2014)

+ Lectured at the University of Hamburg on the topic: “Confucian ethics and feminism: Women's issues in Vietnam in the early 20th century”, 2019.

+ Vietnamese (Dai Nam University, from July 2025 - present)

- CV link:https://orcid.org/0009-0008-9410-1107