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The Vegan Studies Project
''The Vegan Studies Project: Food, Animals, and Gender in the Age of Terror'' (2015) by Laura Wright (literary scholar), Laura Wright coined the term and proposed the academic field of vegan studies and serves as the field's foundational text. Proposing the field of vegan studies The book was the first to propose an academic field, vegan studies, to study veganism as an identity, lifestyle and ideology, as well as to analyze historical and contemporary reception and depiction of veganism. Reaction Some reviewers and academics embraced the identification of a new field of study, calling the book a "foundational work" and "the foundational text for the nascent field" of vegan studies. In her foreword to the book, Carol J. Adams says, "Thanks to this work, we now have a new category: the vegan studies-loving vegan." In 2016 Kathryn Dolan said in the journal ''Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment'' that it "will clearly become an area of further study." Emelia Qui ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laura Wright (literary Scholar)
Laura Wright is a professor of English at Western Carolina University. Wright proposed vegan studies as a new academic field, and her 2015 book '' The Vegan Studies Project: Food, Animals, and Gender in the Age of Terror'' served as the foundational text of the discipline. As of 2021 she had edited two collections of articles about vegan studies. Education Wright received a bachelor's in English from Appalachian State University in 1992, an MA in English from East Carolina University in 1995, and a PhD in Postcolonial Literature and World Literature from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2004. Academic interests In addition to vegan studies, Wright's academic and research interests include postcolonial literature and theory, South African literature, ecocriticism, animal studies, and food studies. Impact Wright's 2015 book ''The Vegan Studies Project: Food, Animals, and Gender in the Age of Terror'' which proposed the academic field "vegan studies," served as the found ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |