Jo YunJeong received a Ph.D. from Seoul National University’s Department of Korean Language and Literature with the thesis “Places of Education and the Logic of Enlightenment in Modern Korean Literary Fiction” and debuted as a literary critic at the 2014 Munhwa Ilbo Literary Competition. Jo is currently a visiting professor at KAIST’s School of Humanities & Social Sciences. Works co-authored by Jo include Progress in the Last Century, Reading Modern Korean Language Textbooks, and The Path Walked by Contemporary Korean Literature.