| Italic Title: | The Vegan Studies Project |
| Author: | Laura Wright |
| Publisher: | University of Georgia Press |
| Pub Date: | 2015 |
| Isbn: | 978-0820348568 |
The Vegan Studies Project: Food, Animals, and Gender in the Age of Terror (2015) by Laura Wright coined the term and proposed the academic field of vegan studies and serves as the field's foundational text.
The book was the first to propose an academic field, vegan studies, to study veganism as an identity, lifestyle and ideology, as well as to analyze historical and contemporary reception and depiction of veganism.
Some reviewers and academics embraced the identification of a new field of study, calling the book a "foundational work"[1] and "the foundational text for the nascent field" of vegan studies.[2] [3] [4] 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."[5]
In 2016 Kathryn Dolan said in the journal Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment that it "will clearly become an area of further study."[6] Emelia Quinn and Benjamin Westwood called the book "the first major academic monograph" on veganism and the humanities.[7] Jodey Castricano and Rasmus R. Simonsen called it "the first vegan studies monograph to be published by a university press."[8]
In 2018 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 in writing the book Wright had "coined the expression".[9]
In 2019 Marzena Kubisz called The Vegan Studies Project "the monograph which creates the foundations for vegan studies".[10]