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Vegan Studies
Hi, Kellen, I'm writing at the prompting of a few of my fellow ecofeminists (particularly Greta Gaard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greta_Gaard) because I've been told that I need to create a Wikipedia page for Vegan Studies, the field that I founded in 2015 with the publication of my book The Vegan Studies Project: Food, Animals, and Gender in the Age of Terror. As you are a top editor for the entry on "veganism," I was advised to contact you to get your advice/feedback. I appear in a footnote on the "veganism" page, but I very much want to make sure that the work that I have done over the past decade is credited to me (as a woman who has created a sub-field within English/Animal Studies, it's imperative to make sure that my scholarship receives the credit that it deserves, particularly as Vegan Studies is currently gaining traction within the humanities and beyond. I have never created a Wikipedia article before, and I know very little about the process (but I am luck enough to have a colleague who has helped to find you and suggested that I reach out to you). Vegan Studies, as I define it, constitutes a way of considering veganism (as identity and practice) as a lens though which to read texts (broadly speaking, such as works of literature, film, advertising, art, acts of resistance, etc.). It is, therefore, theoretical, but entirely different from any extant mode of scholarly inquiry. I'm not sure how much I need to tell you, here, but if it's helpful, here's a link to my introduction to a special issue of the journal ASLE, which I edited on Vegan Studies: https://www.academia.edu/35622783/Introducing_Vegan_Studies._nterdisciplinary_Studies_in_Literature_and_Environment_00.0_2017_pp._1_10doi_10.1093_isle_isx070, as well as the Amazon link to my 2015 book: https://www.amazon.com/Vegan-Studies-Project-Animals-Gender/dp/0820348562, and the Amazon link to my forthcoming edited collection on Vegan Studies (from which you can access all of my other book publications):https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1948908107/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i1. I have given keynote addresses at national and international conferences (most notably, I was the sole invited keynote address at the Towards a Vegan Theory conference at Oxford University in 2016. My body of work can be found here: https://wcu.academia.edu/lwrightemailwcueduWright. I am currently Professor of English at Western Carolina University, a mid-sized regional university in North Carolina, so despite what I feel to be incredibly important work, my profile is not as visible as it would be if I were at a larger, more prominent school. And that's another reason why I am advocating so hard for recognition for the work that I've done.

I hope that writing to you in this way is appropriate (I am a complete novice at doing anything other than research on Wikipedia), and I really appreciate any advice that you can offer. Thanks, Laura WrightPocoecofem (talk) 01:58, 15 December 2018 (UTC)

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