Jin Kyeong Jung, Ph.D.

Education

• Ph.D. Literacy, Culture, and International Education, University of Pennsylvania
• M.Ed. English Language Education, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies
• M.A. Applied Linguistics and English Language Teaching, King's College London

Areas of Expertise

• Digital Literacies
• Multilingual adolescents and adults' language and literacy practices
• Education in Global Contexts

Selected Awards/Fellowships/Grants

• 2024 Texas Tech’s Integrated Scholars Award for the 2023-2024 academic year, Office of the Provost, Texas Tech University.
• 2024 Chancellor’s Council Distinguished Research Award at the College of Education level, Texas Tech University.
• 2024 Hemphill-Wells New Professor Excellence in Teaching Award at the College of Education level, Texas Tech University.
• 2024 Outstanding Research Paper Award, Korean-American Educational Researchers Association (KAERA).
• 2023 English Language Arts Teacher Educators (ELATE) Research Initiative Award, National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE).
• 2022 J. Michael Parker Award, Literacy Research Association (LRA).
• 2022–2024 LRA STAR Fellow, Scholars of Color Transitioning into Academic Research Institutions Fellowship (Mentor: Dr. Vaughn W. M. Watson), Literacy Research Association (LRA).
• 2022 Inaugural Cohort, Early Scholar Program, Korean-American Educational Researchers Association (KAERA).

Selected Publications

Jung, J. K. (2024). Writing globally: South Korean adolescents’ digital multimodal composing practices in a global online community. Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 68(2), 178–189. https://doi.org/10.1002/jaal.1378

Lee, S. Y., Son, M., Kim, T., Jung, J. K., & Jang, S. B. (2024). Methodologizing transnationality: Relational writing as collective inquiry. Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies, 24(2), 97–110. https://doi.org/10.1177/15327086231217225[equal authorship].

Jung, J. K. (2023). Literacy at work: Korean adult immigrants’ lived experiences. Literacy Research: Theory, Method, and Practice, 72(1), 320–338. https://doi.org/10.1177/23813377231187377 

Kim, T., Jang, S. B., Jung, J. K., Son, M., & Lee, S. Y. (2023). Negotiating Asian American identities: Collaborative self-study of Korean immigrant scholars’ reading group on AsianCrit. Journal of Diversity in Higher Education. Advance online publication.  https://doi.org/10.1037/dhe0000481 [equal authorship].

Jung, J. K. (2022). Cosmopolitan language practices toward change: A case from a South Korean high school. Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, 42, 64–70. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0267190522000034 

Jung, J. K. (2022). Creating a liminal writing class for multilingual adolescent writers. In M. Lesley, R. Saldaña, J. Smit, & J. K. Jung (Eds.), Liminal spaces of writing: Useful writing for adolescents and adults (pp. 103–114). Lexington Books.

Jung, J. K. (2018). Transnational women’s online literacies: Writing as social action. In B. Guzzetti, T. Bean, & J. D. Bean (Eds.), Literacies, sexualities, and gender: Understanding identities from preschool to adulthood (pp. 198–208). Routledge.  http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429458514-15 

Stornaiuolo, A., & Jung, J. K. (2017). Public engagement and digital authoring: Korean adolescents write for/as action. In R. Zaidi & J. Rowsell (Eds.), Literacy lives in transcultural times (pp. 102–116). Routledge