Doan Cam Thi

Doan Cam Thi is a Lecturer at the National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilizations (Inalco) in Paris, specializing in Vietnamese and Southeast Asian literature with a focus on autobiography, gender, war narratives, and modernism. She has directed the "Contemporary Vietnamese Literature" collection at Riveneuve Editions and served on Inalco's Scientific Council and Doctoral School No. 265. Her work bridges academia with public intellectualism through translations, editorial boards, and international conferences.

• Key Roles: Director of "Contemporary Vietnamese Literature" collection; Co-head of "Gender in Asia" team at IFRAE; Co-director of M1 seminar on South/Southeast Asian literature
• Research: Vietnamese literature (19th-21st centuries), self-writing, war and literature, women's writing, binary gender construction

Her scientific awards include the Golden Word for Translation 2005 (Unesco – AIF). Notably, she translated seminal works like Thuận's Chinatown and Dương Hương's The Pier of Husbandless Women into French, while rendering Duras' The Sorrow into Vietnamese. She has presented at global events, including the Asian Literature Festival in South Korea and the University of Montreal, addressing themes of exile, language, and cultural memory.