Jeong Jonghyun graduated from the Department of Korean Language and Literature in Dongguk University and received his doctoral degree from its affiliated graduate school. Jeong has studied various topics relating to 20th-century Korean studies. His research topics include comparative literature in East Asia, the history of knowledge, the history of reading culture, and Cold War culture. He is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Korean Language and Literature at Inha University. He has authored many books including Theory of Asia and Colonial Korean Literature and Memory and Appropriation of Empire-Continuation and Discontinuation of Korean Literature in 1940s.