The Edinburgh Companion to Vegan Literary Studies: Edinburgh Companions to Literature and the Humanities

Laura Wright is Professor of English Studies, Director of English Graduate Studies and Chair of the Faculty at Western Carolina University, where she specializes in postcolonial literatures and theory, ecocriticism, and animal studies. Her monographs include Writing Out of All the Camps: J. M. Coetzee's Narratives of Displacement (Routledge, 2006 and 2009), Wilderness into Civilized Shapes: Reading the Postcolonial Environment (U of Georgia P, 2010) and The Vegan Studies Project: Food, Animals, and Gender in the Age of Terror (U of Georgia P, 2015). Her edited collections Through a Vegan Studies Lens: Textual Ethics and Lived Activism was published in 2019 by the University of Nevada Press and The Routledge Handbook of Vegan Studies was published in 2021.
Emelia Quinn is Assistant Professor of World Literatures & Environmental Humanities at the University of Amsterdam. She is author of Reading Veganism: The Monstrous Vegan, 1818 to Present (Oxford University Press, 2021) and co-editor of Thinking Veganism in Literature and Culture: Towards a Vegan Theory (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018).