Wright's 2015 bookThe Vegan Studies Project: Food, Animals, and Gender in the Age of Terror[5] which proposed the academic field "vegan studies,"[6] served as the foundational text for and introduced the discipline.[4][7] She has since edited two collections of vegan studies articles, includingThrough a Vegan Studies Lens: Textual Ethics and Lived Activism (2019) andThe Routledge Handbook of Vegan Studies (2021).[8][9][10]
Reviewers and academics called the book a "foundational work"[11] and "the foundational text for the nascent field" of vegan studies.[1][12][13] 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."[14] Cristina Hanganu-Bresch and Kristin Kondrlik, in their introduction toVeg(etari)an Arguments in Culture, History, and Practice: The V Word, said Wright's proposal had framed vegan studies as a "critical lens to be applied to other cultural artifacts, and, indeed, to a whole new theory of culture."[15]Kathryn Dolan said in the journalInterdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment that it "will clearly become an area of further study."[16]Jodey Castricano andRasmus R. Simonsen called it "the first vegan studies monograph to be published by a university press."[17]
Dario Martinelli andAusra Berkmaniene said, "The presence and legitimacy of 'vegan studies' within the academic world, especially since Wright cared to formalize the expression and define a paradigm, is something that should no longer require an explanation or a justification," and that she "coined the expression".[6]Emelia Quinn andBenjamin Westwood called the book, "the first major academic monograph" on veganism and the humanities.[18]
Marianna Koljonnen in 2019 called Wright "the founder of vegan studies".[19] Marzena Kubisz, also writing in 2019, calledThe Vegan Studies Project "the monograph which creates the foundations for vegan studies".[20]
Wright has given several talks to academic conferences about the introduction of vegan studies, including keynote addresses atTowards A Vegan Theory: An Interdisciplinary Humanities Conference atOxford University,[21]Animal Politics: Justice, Power, and the State atInternationale School voor Wijsbegeerte [nl],[2] and a lecture,The Dangerous Vegan: The Politics of Scholarship, Identity and Consumption in the Anthropocene, at Appalachian State.[22]
Appalachian State University offered a fall 2019 Honors Seminar, What is Vegan Studies? Exploring an Emerging Field, saying that withThe Vegan Studies Project's publication "a powerful transdisciplinary field has emerged which is in turn influencing work across the disciplines" and Wright's works the field's "founding texts".[23]
(2014) with Jane Poyner and Elleke Boehmer, eds.Approaches to Teaching Coetzee'sDisgrace and Other Works. New York: The Modern Language Association of America.[26]
(2013) withElizabeth Heffelfinger.Visual Difference: Postcolonial Studies and Intercultural Cinema. New York: Peter Lang.[26]
(2010)Wilderness into Civilized Shapes: Reading the Postcolonial Environment. Athens: University of Georgia Press.[26]
(2006)Writing Out of All the Camps: J. M. Coetzee's Narratives of Displacement. New York: Routledge.[26]
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^"Laura Wright". Western Carolina University.Archived from the original on 29 December 2018. Retrieved20 December 2018.
^abNicole, Seymour (2018-10-30).Bad environmentalism: irony and irreverence in the ecological age. Minneapolis. p. 121.ISBN9781452958095.OCLC1039215612.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
^Wright, Laura (2015).The Vegan Studies Project: food, animals, and gender in the age of terror. Athens: University of Georgia Press.ISBN9780820348544.OCLC920013340.
^abMartinelli, Dario; Berkmaniene, Ausra (February 12, 2018). "The Politics and the Demographics of Veganism: Notes for a Critical Analysis".International Journal for the Semiotics of Law.31 (3):501–530.doi:10.1007/s11196-018-9543-3.S2CID149235953.
^Dolan, Kathryn (November 2016). "The Vegan Studies Project: Food, Animals, and Gender in the Age of Terror. By Laura Wright".Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment.23 (3): 644.doi:10.1093/isle/isw059.
^Castricano, Jodey; Simonsen, Rasmus R. (2016). "Introduction: Food for Thought". In Castricano, Jodey; Simonsen, Rasmus R. (eds.).Critical Perspectives on Veganism. Basingstoke, United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. v–xv.ISBN978-3-319-33418-9.
^Quinn, Emelia; Westwood, Benjamin (2018).Thinking Veganism in Literature and Culture: Towards a Vegan Theory. Palgrave Macmillan.ISBN9783319733791.
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