Agata Wrochna

Educational Background

PhD in Culture Studies (The University of Nottingham)

MA in Media and Culture (Pusan National University)

BA (JHons) in Media and Hispanic Studies (The University of Nottingham)

Biography

Dr. Agata Ewa Wrochna is a Lecturer in Communication at Wenzhou-Kean University. She received her PhD degree in Culture Studies from the School of International Communications at the University of Nottingham. She has worked as a tutor and researcher in many international institutions, including several Sino-foreign universities across China. She possesses significant teaching and research experience in the areas of communications, culture and media. Agata is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a Member of the Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange. She is also an Associate Editor and Reviewer for Frontiers in Communication Journal.

Research interests

Issues in Intercultural Communication; Representations of Femininity in Visual Media; Authenticity and Identity in Celebrity Studies; Asian Fandom and Popular Media.

Publications/scholarly and creative work

Nowacki, L., Wrochna, A. E.  (2025) "ChatGPT Theses. Identifying Distinctive Marker in AI-Generated vs. Human-Created Texts: A multimodal Analysis in University Education." E-learning and Digital Media, 0 (0), 1-16.

Wrochna, A.E. (2025) “Participatory citizenship as key to romance in Thai Boys’ Love TV series Not Me (2022-3).” In Contemporary Asian Popular Culture: Cultural Dynamics and Global Impact Volume II, edited by Yeojin Kim, Dharshani Lakmali Jayasinghe, Hiba Aleem, and Karen A. Ritzenhoff, Palgrave Macmillan. Chapter 20. Print.

Wrochna, A.E. (2023) “Best TV show you have never seen. Maintaining collective identity among the Twitter fandom of Chinese dangai drama Immortality.” Transformative Works and Cultures (Special Issue Dec. 2023)

Wrochna, A.E. (2018) "Because You Can('t) Have It All: Representations of Female Sexuality in South Korean Casa Amor." The Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema, 10 (1), 61-75.

Wrochna, A.E. (2018) "I Don't Like Women: Language as the Key to Understanding Gender Power Relations in Incomplete Life." Crossing Borders in Gender and Culture. Eds. K. Gunesch, O. Lytovka & A. Tryniecka. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 118-131 .Print.

Courses

COMM3002 Film Theory

COMM4510 Popular Culture and Communication

COMM3530 Communicating Across Cultures

COMM2415 Small Group Communication

COMM1402 Speech Communication as Critical Citizenship

COMM4650 Media Relations and Publicity

COMM4630 PR Campaigns

COMM3660 Introduction to Public Relations