Thinking Veganism in Literature and Culture Towards a Vegan Theory

Emelia Quinn is a DPhil candidate and Wolfson Foundation scholar in the Faculty of English Literature and Language at the University of Oxford, UK. Her thesis establishes a transhistorical and transnational trajectory of literary veganisms, from the early nineteenth century to the present. She has previously published in
The Journal of Commonwealth Literature
and
Society & Animals,
with research interests across veganism, animal studies, and queer theory.

Benjamin Westwood is Departmental Lecturer in the Faculty of English Literature and Language at the University of Oxford, UK, and is finishing a thesis on animals and the intersections of classification and literary form in Victorian literature. He recently contributed an essay to an edited collection,
Bathroom Songs: Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick as a Poet
(2017), and has an essay on “Edward Lear’s Dancing Lines” forthcoming in
Essays in Criticism
.