{{Short description|American anime academic}} {{Use American English|date=January 2024}} {{Use mdy dates|date=January 2024}} {{Infobox academic | occupation = {{flatlist| * Anime scholar * film producer }} | alma_mater = {{ublist|University of Iowa|Hamline University|University of Minnesota}} | thesis_title = Comic Books: Sex And Death At The Edge Of Modernity | doctoral_advisor = Barbara E. Martinson | thesis_year = 2001 | discipline = Popular culture | sub_discipline = Anime and manga | workplaces = Minneapolis College of Art and Design }} '''Nancy Erroll French Lunning'''<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Fordyce |first=Rachel |date=2002 |title=Dissertations of Note |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/247528 |volume=30 |issue=1 |pages=245–260 |doi=10.1353/chl.0.0777 |issn=1543-3374 |access-date=2024-09-23 |via=Project MUSE |journal=Children's Literature|url-access=subscription }}</ref> 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== Nancy Erroll French Lunning was born to Patricia McGrew and William French<ref>{{Cite web |title=Jennifer French Obituary |url=https://www.wittichfuneralhome.com/obituary/Jennifer-French |website=Ralph J. Wittich-Riley-Freers Funeral Home}}</ref> and graduated from Muscatine High School in 1968.<ref>{{Cite news |date=1968-05-24 |title=Muscatine High School Seniors Graduate Monday |url=https://www.newspaperarchive.com/us/iowa/muscatine/muscatine-journal/1968/05-24/page-9 |work=Muscatine Journal |pages=9 |via=NewspaperArchive}}</ref> She received her Bachelor of Arts from the University of Iowa and her Master of Arts in Liberal Studies from Hamline University.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-08-26 |title=Fall 2019 Faculty |url=https://www.mcad-mfa.com/fall-2019-faculty/ |access-date=2024-01-17 |website=MCAD MFA |language=en-US}}</ref> In 2000, she received her PhD in Design, Housing and Apparel from the University of Minnesota;<ref name="conservancy">{{Cite magazine |date=2006 |title=Awards |url=https://conservancy.umn.edu/bitstream/handle/11299/340/Kscope2006spr%5B1%5D.pdf |access-date=2024-01-17 |magazine=Kaleidoscope |publisher=University of Minnesota |page=26}}</ref> her dissertation ''Comic Books: Sex And Death At The Edge Of Modernity'' was supervised by Barbara E. Martinson.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Register of Doctoral Degrees |url=https://apps.grad.umn.edu/programs/doctoral_register.aspx |access-date=2024-09-23 |website=University of Minnesota Graduate School}}</ref> 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.<ref name="linkedin">{{Cite web |last=Lunning |first=Frenchy |title=Frenchy Lunning |url=https://www.linkedin.com/in/frenchy-lunning-a22b67a |access-date=2024-01-17 |website=LinkedIn}}</ref> She later became Professor Emeritus in Liberal Arts.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Faculty |url=https://www.mcad.edu/academics/faculty |access-date=2024-01-17 |website=Minneapolis College of Art and Design}}</ref>
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;<ref>{{Cite web |title=Editorial Team |url=https://www.mechademia.net/contact/editorial-team/ |access-date=2024-01-17 |website=Mechademia |date=September 2018 |language=en-US}}</ref> she alone was also the editor of the journal's first run from 2006 until 2015.<ref name="animecons" /> In 2013, she published ''Fetish Style'', a book on fetish fashion.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Fetish Style |url=https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/fetish-style-9781847885708/ |access-date=2024-01-17 |website=Bloomsbury |language=en}}</ref> In 2022, she wrote the book ''Cosplay: The Fictional Mode of Existence''.<ref name="animecons">{{Cite web |title=Dr. Frenchy Lunning |url=https://animecons.com/guests/bio/2401/dr--frenchy-lunning |access-date=2024-01-17 |website=AnimeCons.com}}</ref> She has also served as the director of the Schoolgirls and Mobile Suits conference and its successor Mechademia Conference.<ref name="ndsu" /> She has also written chapters on object-oriented ontology.<ref name="animecons" />
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.<ref name="ndsu">{{Cite web |title=Frenchy Lunning |url=https://www.ndsu.edu/visualarts/department_programs/visiting_artist_series/2011_2012/frenchy_lunning/ |access-date=2024-01-17 |website=North Dakota State University}}</ref><ref name="movingwalkway">{{Cite web |title=About |url=http://www.movingwalkway-productions.com/about/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170429002106/http://www.movingwalkway-productions.com/about/ |archive-date=2017-04-29 |access-date=2024-01-17 |website=Moving Walkway Productions}}</ref> She was a guest at KakkoiCon 2008 and AniMinneapolis 2011, two anime conventions in her local Minneapolis.<ref name="animecons" />
==Publications== *''Fetish Style'' (2013) *''Cosplay: The Fictional Mode of Existence'' (2022)<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Mountfort |first=Paul |date=2023 |title=Cosplay: The Fictional Mode of Existence by Frenchy Lunning (review) |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/2/article/900183 |journal=Journal of Asia-Pacific Pop Culture |volume=8 |issue=1 |pages=138–149 |doi=10.5325/jasiapacipopcult.8.1.0138 |s2cid=259331228 |issn=2380-7687 |via=Project MUSE|url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last1=MrAJCosplay |last2=Cartoon Cipher |date=2024-01-18 |title=Cosplay: The Fictional Mode of Existence |url=https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/review/cosplay/the-fictional-mode-of-existence/.184481 |access-date=2024-01-18 |work=Anime News Network |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Berge |first=P. S. |date=2022-12-14 |title=Book Review: Cosplay: The Fictional Mode of Existence |url=https://iopn.library.illinois.edu/journals/jams/article/view/1132 |journal=Journal of Anime and Manga Studies |language=en |volume=3 |pages=276–280 |doi=10.21900/j.jams.v3.1132 |issn=2689-2596|doi-access=free }}</ref>
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