Laura Wright

Laura Wright is Professor of English at Western Carolina University where she specializes in postcolonial studies, ecocriticism, and animal studies. In 2015, Her monograph The Vegan Studies Project: Food, Animals, and Gender in the Age of Terror was published by the University of Georgia Press. Heralded as the foundational text in the field of vegan studies/vegan theory, this work defined the field of vegan studies at an ideal moment in the history of literary and cultural studies theory. A vegan studies approach is at once informed by ecocriticism, ecofeminism, critical animal studies, animal human studies, and posthumanism, and also divergent from and challenging to these extant areas of scholarly exploration in that such an approach works to highlight the ways ethical vegans read the world and its various texts as well as how veganism is depicted within them. Here is her Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Wright_(academic)