Biography
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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