Moonyoung Hong completed her BA degree in English Language and Literature at Hanyang University and obtained her MPhil in Irish Writing and PhD in English at Trinity College Dublin. Her PhD was funded by the TCD Ussher Fellowship and an Irish Research Council Postgraduate Scholarship. She held an Early Career Research residency at Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute. Prior to joining HKU, she taught at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), City University of Hong Kong (CityU), and Masaryk University, Brno.

Moonyoung specializes in modern drama, Irish literature, and postcolonial literature and theory. She is author of Tom Murphy's Theatre of Everyday Space (Routledge, 2025) and co-editor of The Irish Pub: Invention and Re-Invention (Cork University Press, forthcoming). Her articles have appeared in Irish Studies Review, Comparative Drama, Études Irlandaises, and Review of Irish Studies in Europe (RISE). Her research interests include everyday life studies, space and place, contemporary theatre and performance, and cross-cultural and global literatures.