Education
Wright received a bachelor's in English fromAcademic interests
In addition to vegan studies, Wright's academic and research interests includeImpact
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 foundational text for and introduced the discipline. She has since edited two collections of vegan studies articles, including ''Through a Vegan Studies Lens: Textual Ethics and Lived Activism'' (2019) and ''The Routledge Handbook of Vegan Studies'' (2021). Reviewers and academics called 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." Cristina Hanganu-Bresch and Kristin Kondrlik, in their introduction to ''Veg(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." Kathryn Dolan said in the journal ''Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment'' that it "will clearly become an area of further study." Jodey Castricano and Rasmus R. Simonsen called it "the first vegan studies monograph to be published by a university press." Dario Martinelli and Ausra 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". Emelia Quinn and Benjamin Westwood called the book, "the first major academic monograph" on veganism and the humanities. Marianna Koljonnen in 2019 called Wright "the founder of vegan studies". Marzena Kubisz, also writing in 2019, called ''The Vegan Studies Project'' "the monograph which creates the foundations for vegan studies". Wright has given several talks to academic conferences about the introduction of vegan studies, including keynote addresses at ''Towards A Vegan Theory: An Interdisciplinary Humanities Conference'' atAwards and honors
* University of North Carolina Board of Governors Award for Excellence in Teaching (2018) * National Humanities Center Fellowship (2012) * Modern Language Association Florence Howe Award for Feminist Scholarship (2008)Bibliography
* (2021) ed. ''The Routledge Handbook of Vegan Studies''. London: Routledge. *(2019) ed. ''Through a Vegan Studies Lens: Textual Ethics and Lived Activism''. Reno: University of Nevada Press. * (2015) ''The Vegan Studies Project: Food, Animals, and Gender in the Age of Terror''. Athens: University of Georgia Press. * (2014) with Jane Poyner and Elleke Boehmer, eds. ''Approaches to Teaching Coetzee's ''Disgrace'' and Other Works''. New York: The Modern Language Association of America. * (2013) with Elizabeth Heffelfinger. ''Visual Difference: Postcolonial Studies and Intercultural Cinema''. New York: Peter Lang. * (2010) ''Wilderness into Civilized Shapes: Reading the Postcolonial Environment''. Athens: University of Georgia Press. * (2006) ''Writing Out of All the Camps: J. M. Coetzee's Narratives of Displacement''. New York: Routledge.References
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