Jung J. Choi received her doctorate in East Asian Languages and Civilizations from Harvard University. She has taught in Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Comparative Literature, and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Dartmouth College, in East Asian Languages and Cultures at Washington University in St. Louis, and in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Harvard University. She is currently a research associate in Comparative Literature at Harvard University.

Choi is the author of The Life and Works of Korean Poet Kim Myŏng-sun (Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature, 2022). Her chapter, “Nora’s Sisters: Korean Women Writers of 1922,” appears in Revisiting the Poetics and Politics of Modernism (Palgrave’s Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics, 2025) and a journal article, “Female Intersubjectivity: Violence, Women, and Elegy in Lee Chang-dong’s Poetry,” was published in The Journal of Korean Studies (2020).

A recipient of the 2024–25 Academy of Korean Studies’ Grant for Scholarly Publication, Choi is completing her second book, The Life and Works of South Korean Feminist Poet Ko Chŏng-hŭi (Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature). She is also co-editing An Introduction to Contemporary East Asian Literature.