Laura Wright | |
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| Nationality | American |
| Occupation(s) | Professor of English, Western Carolina University |
| Known for | Founding the academic field of vegan studies |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Literature |
| Notable works | The Vegan Studies Project: Food, Animals, and Gender in the Age of Terror (2015) |
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.