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Series Features Anime Researcher/Fulbright Scholar
(Posted: October 21, 2008) (Printable Version)
A professor from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design will speak Nov. 17 in Fort Smith as part of the Distinguished Global Speaker Series at the University of Arkansas – Fort Smith.
“Japanese Anime and American Animation Industry” is the topic for Dr. Frenchy Lunning, professor of liberal arts and Fulbright scholar to Japan, at the noon event in the Latture Conference Center of the Business and Industrial Institute, North 50th and Grand Ave.
Dr. Lunning is also a researcher of anime, Japanese movie and television animation, and manga, a Japanese genre of cartoons, comic books and animated films, both of which often have a science fiction theme and sometimes include violent or explicitly sexual material.
Dr. Lunning, who has focused on design, popular culture and culture theory throughout her professional life, is editor-in-chief of “Mechademia,” an academic journal of Japanese anime, manga and popular culture. The next issue, “Mechademia 3: Limits of the Human,” will be out this fall.
She is co-director of “SGMS: Schoolgirls and Mobilesuits: Culture and Creation in Manga and Anime,” an annual workshop at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, where she was co-curator for an exhibit on shojo manga in 2007. She has written for several journals and is currently working on two books.
Although there is no fee, reservations are requested by calling 479-788-7166 or emailing globalstudies@uafortsmith.edu. For more information, contact Takeo Suzuki, executive director of international programs at UA Fort Smith, by telephone at 788-7166 or by email at tsuzuki@uafortsmith.edu.
| Article by: Sondra LaMar, Director of Public Relations |
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