Joaquin Lopez Mugica

Position:

Lecturer in Spanish
College:

College of Liberal Arts
Office:

GEH B304
您的邮箱:

jlopezmu@kean.edu

Educational Background

PhD in Visual/Cultural Studies. University of Nottingham, UK.

MA in Film Studies, School of Film Studies Barcelona (aulacritica), Spain.

MA in Comparative Literature and Critical Theory. University of Valencia, Spain.

MA in Teaching Spanish as a Second Language. University Francisco de Vitoria, Spain.

MSc in E-Commerce Applications. School of Computer Science and Media. Studies. University of Sunderland, UK.

Biography

Dr. Joaquin Lopez-Mugica, PhD, FHEA

Joaquin Lopez-Mugica is presently a lecturer in Spanish studies at the University of Wenzhou-Kean in China. Joaquin has also been teaching undergraduate and postgraduate courses (including BA and MA supervisions in Media and Cultural Studies) at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China from 2005 to 2019. He became a UK Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA) in 2019. His teaching and research focus mainly on modern languages, comparative literature, and cultural and media studies within China, Spain, and Latin America.

Professional service and membership

Fellow, Higher Education Academy, UK (HEA), 2019.

External Member (Research fellow), Centre for Contemporary East Asian Cultural Studies (CEACS). University of Nottingham, UK.

External Member (Research fellow), The Gender Studies (GS) Research. Priority Area at University Nottingham, Ningbo China.

Others

Instituto Cervantes / DELE Examiner accreditation: Levels A1 – A2 and B1 – B2. And C1-C2)

SIELE Examiner

IB (International Baccalaureate) Examiner in Spanish Language and Literature

OCR (Oxford, Cambridge, and RSA Examinations) Examiner for Film Studies.

Research interests

Critical theory in literary and media studies related to China, Latin America and Spain.

Second language acquisition new technologies and social media.

Selected Publications/scholarly and creative work

Selected Journal Articles

–Lopez-Mugica J, and Whyke, T.W, White. (2024, in Press) ‘Substantiating vulnerability in As Bestas (2022): a political neo-noir encounter between insiders and outsiders in rural Spain’. Studies in European Cinema (Taylor and Francis) Q2.

–Lopez-Mugica J, and Whyke, T.W, White A. and Dean, L. (2024, in press) The Fluidity of Soft Power in YouTube’s Broadcasting of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games. Global Media and Communications, Sage Q1.

–Lopez-Mugica J, and Whyke, T. (2024), ‘Revisiting a de-Humanized Shanghai: Speculative Realism in Zhou Ming’s Contemporary Object-Oriented Materialist Documentary Photography’. Photography and Culture (Taylor and Francis) Q2.

–Whyke, T. Zeyang, Wang, and Lopez-Mugica J (2024) State feminism with Chinese characteristics: The inextricable link between women’s political representation and political episteme in contemporary China (2013–2023). Asian Journal of Women's Studies, (Taylor and Francis) Q2.

–Aiqing Wang, Whyke, T. and Lopez-Mugica J (2024). Scripted Resonance or Lost in Translation? Storytelling and Chinese Reception of Everything Everywhere All at Once (in press). Journal of Screenwriting. Intellect, Q1.

–Lopez-Mugica J and Whyke, T.W, (2024). ’Representations of the Post-Industrial Shanghai: Industrial Chronotopes in Documentary Photography’. Asian Studies Q1.

–Whyke, T.W, Chen ZT. Lopez-Mugica J and Altman YW (2023). ‘From queerbaiting to cashing the pink RMB: queering paradox, docile body, emotional and erotic labor of male virtual lovers on Chinese social media platform. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, Q1.

–Whyke, T.W, Lopez-Mugica J, Sadia Jamil, Aiqing Wang (2023). ‘Understanding Responses to Dog Culling During the Covid-19 Outbreak on Chinese Social Media’. Asian Studies Q1.

–Lopez-Mugica J and Whyke, T.W (2023). ‘Reimagining Affection in a Changing Shanghai: A Rhizomatic Young Cartography of Birdhead's Contemporary Photography’. Asian Studies Q1.

–Whyke, T.W, Chen ZT. Lopez-Mugica J and Aiqing Wang (2023). ‘Unboxing the Chinese Blind Boxes among China’s grown-up missing children: Probabilistic and elastic prosumption through mediated collection, exchange and resale of figurines’. Sage, Global Media and China. Q1.

–Whyke, T.W., Lopez-Mugica J. (2022). ‘An Analysis of Cultural Dissemination and National Image Construction in Chinese Vlogger Li Ziqi’s Vlogs and its Impacts on International Viewer Perceptions on YouTube’. The Journal of Chinese Sociology (Springer, Q2).

Hu Junyi, Whyke, T.W., Lopez-Mugica J. (2022). Investigating media coverage and public perceptions of the HPV vaccine in China -- A content analysis of Weibo posts. Sexuality & Culture (Springer, Q1).

Whyke, T.W., and Lopez-Mugica J. (2022) Love, Friendship, Fraternity, and Sexual Pleasure Between Men in Pu Songling’s Qing Dynasty Tale Huang Jiulang (c. 1740). Springer, Sexuality & Culture (Springer, Q1).

Lopez-Mugica J. (2022) ‘La contemporaneidad transcultural de la pintura de Juan Baños en China. TRANS/FORM/AÇÃO: revista de filosofía (Scielo Brasil, Q3).

Lopez-Mugica J and Whyke, T.W., (2022) ‘Demolition sites in the ghostly traces of Greg Girard´s photography in Shanghai’. Springer, Fudan J. Hum. Soc. Sci (Q1)

Whyke TW, Lopez-Mugica J, Chen ZT. (2021). The Rite of Passage and Digital Mourning in Fang Fang’s Wuhan Diary. Sage, Global Media, and China, (Q1)

Whyke, T.W., Lopez-Mugica, J. Calling for a Hero: The Displacement of the Nezha Archetypal Image from Chinese Animated Film Nezha Naohai (1979) to New Gods: Nezha Reborn (2021). Springer, Fudan J. Hum. Soc. Sci. (Q1)

Whyke TW, J Lopez- Mugica, Brown MS (2021). Contemporizing the National Style in Chinese Animation: The Case of Nezha (2019). Animation journal (Sage). (Q1)

Whyke, TW and J Lopez- Mugica (2020). Content and Discourse Analysis of Cruelty towards Stray Dogs as Presented in Chinese Social Media Society & Animals 1 (aop), 1-20 (Brill). (Q3)

Scholarly book chapters

Marion Sadoux. and Dorota Rzycka and M. Jones and J Lopez- Mugica (2016) ‘Overcoming navigational design in a VLE: students as agents of change’ in C. Gloria, O. Speicher & Stolhans (Eds), Innovative Language Teaching and Learning. At University Enhancing Participation and Collaboration. Dublin Research-Publishing.net.

B Liboriussen, J Lopez-Mugica, A White (2018). Contemporary Chinese creatives as literati. Routledge Handbook of Cultural and Creative Industries in Asia.

Non-Peer-Reviewed Academic Articles

J Lopez- Mugica (2020). ‘Elisa y Marcela: un matrimonio sin hombre’. Journal of Critical Thinking. Rockford University (US).

J Lopez- Mugica (2013). ‘Contemporary traces and specters in Juan Antonio Baños’ vibrant paintings of Shanghai’ Instituto Cervantes (Spain).

Book-Review

Whyke, T.W. and Lopez-Mugica J. (forthcoming) Book Review: Animation in China.

Book

Monograph entitled, (work in progress) Chinese and Western Photographic Heterotopias in the Urban Transformations of post-socialist Shanghai (Palgrave Asian Series).

Peer-Reviewed Academic Journal Articles

https://www.webofscience.com/wos/op/peer-reviews/summary

Media Impact

Collaborator in the following online film magazine (main audiences across Spain and Latin America).

Please see: http://www.elespectadorimaginario.com/author/joaquinlopez/

Podcasts literary series (2019). University Nottingham Ningbo. The Poetry of Lorca (interview about A poet in New York).