Laura Wright (literary scholar)

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**Education**:
– Bachelors in English from Appalachian State University in 1992
– MA in English from East Carolina University in 1995
– PhD in Postcolonial Literature and World Literature from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2004

**Academic Interests**:
– Vegan studies
– Postcolonial literature and theory
– South African literature
– Ecocriticism
– Food studies

**Achievements and Impact**:
– Book ‘The Vegan Studies Project’ proposed the academic field vegan studies
– Introduced and served as the foundational text for vegan studies
– Edited collections of vegan studies articles
– Received positive reviews and acknowledgments from reviewers and academics
– Given talks at academic conferences on the introduction of vegan studies

**Awards 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)

**Publications and Contributions**:
– Ed. ‘The Routledge Handbook of Vegan Studies’ (2021)
– Ed. ‘Through a Vegan Studies Lens: Textual Ethics and Lived Activism’ (2019)
– ‘The Vegan Studies Project: Food, Animals, and Gender in the Age of Terror’ (2015)
– Co-edited ‘Approaches to Teaching Coetzees Disgrace and Other Works’ (2014)
– Co-authored ‘Visual Difference: Postcolonial Studies and Intercultural Cinema’ (2013)
– Various publications related to the Vegan Studies Project

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