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Frenchy Lunning
Occupations
  • Anime scholar
  • film producer
Academic background
Alma mater
ThesisComic Books: Sex And Death At The Edge Of Modernity (2001)
Doctoral advisorBarbara E. Martinson
Academic work
DisciplinePopular culture
Sub-disciplineAnime and manga
InstitutionsMinneapolis College of Art and Design

Nancy Erroll French Lunning[1] is an American academic who specializes in anime. She is a Professor Emeritus in Liberal Arts at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design.

Biography

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Nancy Erroll French Lunning was born to Patricia McGrew and William French[2] and graduated from Muscatine High School in 1968.[3] She received her Bachelor of Arts from the University of Iowa and her Master of Arts in Liberal Studies from Hamline University.[4] In 2000, she received her PhD in Design, Housing and Apparel from the University of Minnesota;[5] her dissertation Comic Books: Sex And Death At The Edge Of Modernity was supervised by Barbara E. Martinson.[6] She became a professor at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design in 1980, and she was director of their SES program from 1994 until 2010.[7] She later became Professor Emeritus in Liberal Arts.[8]

As an academic, Lunning specializes in anime and manga. She and Sandra Annett are the co-editors of Mechademia, an academic journal on Japanese popular culture;[9] she alone was also the editor of the journal's first run from 2006 until 2015.[10] In 2013, she published Fetish Style, a book on fetish fashion.[11] In 2022, she wrote the book Cosplay: The Fictional Mode of Existence.[10] She has also served as the director of the Schoolgirls and Mobile Suits conference and its successor Mechademia Conference.[12] She has also written chapters on object-oriented ontology.[10]

Outside of academia, Lunning also worked in the film industry, as a costume designer and stage manager, and also as a producer for Moving Walkway Productions, a film production company specializing in music videos.[12][13] She was a guest at KakkoiCon 2008 and AniMinneapolis 2011, two anime conventions in her local Minneapolis.[10]

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References

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  1. ^ Fordyce, Rachel (2002). "Dissertations of Note". Children's Literature. 30 (1): 245–260. doi:10.1353/chl.0.0777. ISSN 1543-3374. Retrieved September 23, 2024 – via Project MUSE.
  2. ^ "Jennifer French Obituary". Ralph J. Wittich-Riley-Freers Funeral Home.
  3. ^ "Muscatine High School Seniors Graduate Monday". Muscatine Journal. May 24, 1968. p. 9 – via NewspaperArchive.
  4. ^ "Fall 2019 Faculty". MCAD MFA. August 26, 2019. Retrieved January 17, 2024.
  5. ^ "Awards" (PDF). Kaleidoscope. University of Minnesota. 2006. p. 26. Retrieved January 17, 2024.
  6. ^ "Register of Doctoral Degrees". University of Minnesota Graduate School. Retrieved September 23, 2024.
  7. ^ Lunning, Frenchy. "Frenchy Lunning". LinkedIn. Retrieved January 17, 2024.
  8. ^ "Faculty". Minneapolis College of Art and Design. Retrieved January 17, 2024.
  9. ^ "Editorial Team". Mechademia. September 2018. Retrieved January 17, 2024.
  10. ^ a b c d "Dr. Frenchy Lunning". AnimeCons.com. Retrieved January 17, 2024.
  11. ^ "Fetish Style". Bloomsbury. Retrieved January 17, 2024.
  12. ^ a b "Frenchy Lunning". North Dakota State University. Retrieved January 17, 2024.
  13. ^ "About". Moving Walkway Productions. Archived from the original on April 29, 2017. Retrieved January 17, 2024.
  14. ^ Mountfort, Paul (2023). "Cosplay: The Fictional Mode of Existence by Frenchy Lunning (review)". Journal of Asia-Pacific Pop Culture. 8 (1): 138–149. doi:10.5325/jasiapacipopcult.8.1.0138. ISSN 2380-7687. S2CID 259331228 – via Project MUSE.
  15. ^ MrAJCosplay; Cartoon Cipher (January 18, 2024). "Cosplay: The Fictional Mode of Existence". Anime News Network. Retrieved January 18, 2024.
  16. ^ Berge, P. S. (December 14, 2022). "Book Review: Cosplay: The Fictional Mode of Existence". Journal of Anime and Manga Studies. 3: 276–280. doi:10.21900/j.jams.v3.1132. ISSN 2689-2596.
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