B.A., University of California at Berkeley, 1989
M.A., New School for Social Research, New York City, 2005
Ph.D., Prescott College, Arizona, 2013
Antonio Lopez, PhD, who joined JCU in 2008, is a curriculum designer, educator, trainer, and theorist with a research focus on bridging ecojustice and media literacy. He is a founding theorist and architect of ecomedia literacy and creator of the ecomedialiteracy.org website, which curates education resources. He has written numerous academic articles, essays, and four monographs: Ecomedia Literacy: Integrating Ecology into Media Education; Greening Media Education: Bridging Media Literacy with Green Cultural Citizenship; The Media Ecosystem: What Ecology Can Teach Us About Responsible Media Practice; and Mediacology: A Multicultural Approach to Media Literacy in the 21st Century. He is lead editor of the Routledge Handbook of Ecomedia Studies.
Currently he is Professor of Communication and Media Studies. He teaches Introduction to Visual Communication, Writing Across the Media, Media Culture and Society, Digital Media Culture, Media and the Environment, Ecocinema, Writing Across the Media, Advanced Media Theory, and Senior Capstone Project.
