Biography
Laura Wright is Professor of English at Western Carolina University, where she specializes
in postcolonial literatures and theory, ecocriticism, and animal studies. Her monographs
include <i>Writing Out of All the Camps: J. M. Coetzee's Narratives of Displacement</i>
(Routledge, 2006 and 2009) and <i>Wilderness into Civilized Shapes: Reading the Postcolonial
Environment</i> (U of Georgia P, 2010). She is lead editor (with Jane Poyner and Elleke
Boehmer) of <i>Approaches to Teaching Coetzee's Disgrace and Other Works</i> (MLA,
2014). Her most recent monograph, <i>The Vegan Studies Project: Food, Animals, and
Gender in the Age of Terror</i>, was published by the U of Georgia P in 2015. Her
edited collection <i>Through a Vegan Studies Lens: Textual Ethics and Lived Activism</i>
was published in February 2019 by the University of Nevada Press.
Teaching Interests
Postcolonial Literature <br>Environmental Literature<br>Animal Studies<br>South African
Literature<br>Vegan Studies
Research Interests
The literature and politics of oppression and resistance; women's literary history;
ecofeminism; postcolonialism; literature and the environment.
