Jung Ja Choi

Jung 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 and in East Asian Languages and Cultures at Washington University in St. Louis. She currently teaches in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies 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, forthcoming 2026). She is also co-editing An Introduction to Contemporary East Asian Literature (under contract with Routledge, expected 2027).

Courses Taught in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality

WOMGEN 99A: Tutorial – Senior Year (with Linda Schlossberg) 
WOMGEN 99B: Tutorial – Senior Year (with Linda Schlossberg)
WOMGEN 1208: Gender and Sexuality in Korean Pop Culture
WOMGEN 1216: Women’s Voices in Asian and Asian American Literature