1. Full name: Tran Thi Mai Phuong                                2. Sex: Female

3. Date of birth:             27/07/1983                                4. Place of birth: Nam Dinh

5. Admission decision number: 3202/QD-XHNV-SDH, dated 08/11/2010 of the President of Hanoi National University

6. Changes in academic process: Changing the thesis’ title under Decision No. 784/ QD-SDH, dated 24/04/2013 of the Rector of Hanoi University of Social Sciences and Humanities.

7. Official thesis’ title: “Artistic thought of Vietnamese literary memoirs in the period from 1986 up to now”

8. Major: Vietnamese literature

9. Code: 62 22 34 01

10. Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Doan Duc Phuong

11. Summary of the new findings of the thesis:

The dissertation is the first project focusing on studying artistic thought presented in literary memoirs written by Vietnamese writers in the period from 1986 up to now. The dissertation does the following:

- Giving out a nuanced conception of “artistic thought in memoirs”, a literary genre which has unique characteristics in comparison to other ones, especially in terms of its close relationship with contemporary social and ideological context, artistic awareness, gender consciousness, so forth and so on.

- Sketching out the movement of Vietnamese literary memoirs  in its long history, especially in the period from 1986 up to now.

- Pointing out some characteristics of “artistic thought of Vietnamese literary memoirs from 1986 up to now” on three aspects: conceptional code of literary memoirs, artistic figures, and artistic methods.

- Contributing to exploring and identifying the advantages and disadvantages in the content and form of Vietnamese literary memoirs from 1986 up to now, so that the readers nowadays can have a good understanding and aesthetic awareness to help read them well.

12. Practical applicability, if any:

The research results of the dissertation can become a treatise reference and instruction for students as well as graduate students of literature.

13. Further research directions, if any:

14. Thesis-related publications:

1. Tran Thi Mai Phuong (2010), “To Hoai’s viewpoint of history through his Cat bui chan ai and Chieu chieu”, Journal of Science Hanoi Pedagogical University 2 (12), pp.58-63.

2. Tran Thi Mai Phuong (2010), “The movement of memoirs and autobiographies in the case of To Hoai”, Vietnamese Literature and Arts Forum (188), pp. 24-27.

3. Tran Thi Mai Phuong (2016), “Identities of female gender in Vietnamese female writer’s autobiographical memoirs”, Journal of Science Saigon University (21/46), pp.99-108.

4. Tran Thi Mai Phuong (2016), “Initial research on Vietnamese female writer’s autobiographical memoirs”, Journal of Science, Hanoi Pedagogical University 2 (46), pp.102-116.