Media – Corey Lee Wrenn, Ph.D.

Ten Years Later, Veganism More Popular, but Less Political

Dr. Corey WrennOctober 16, 2024October 16, 2024

The focus on vegan products and dietary practices has created a depoliticized image of veganism. Critical discussions of non-human animal rights and speciesism were noticeably absent in the sample, while the capitalist encroachment on veganism was omnipresent.

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Society Writings: Veganism Made Real in Print

Dr. Corey WrennMarch 1, 2023March 1, 2023

In my chapter, “Society Writings" in The Edinburgh Companion to Vegan Literary Studies (Wright and Quinn 2022) published with the University of Edinburgh Press, I examine early vegan and vegetarian organizational literature, arguing its importanceContinue reading

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Third-Wave Vegan Feminism and Feminist Animal Studies

Dr. Corey WrennFebruary 22, 2023February 22, 2023

In my chapter for Feminist Animal Studies (Routledge 2022) edited by Erika Cudworth, Ruth E. McKie and Di Turgoose, I argue that vegan feminist activism has entered a millennial third wave. This wave, I argue,Continue reading

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Ghost Stories Tell Us a Lot about Animals in Human Society

Dr. Corey WrennJune 18, 2019June 18, 2019

In a content analysis of over 600 ghost stories I published with the peer-reviewed journal Mortality, I discovered that Nonhuman Animals are a sizable feature in the supernatural imagination. About one in ten ghosts recorded inContinue reading

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A Month of Vegan Research: Recruiting Strangers and Friends

Dr. Corey WrennNovember 22, 2016June 1, 2018

The following literature review is part of a series for World Vegan Month. Other essays can be accessed by visiting the essays catalog. J. Jasper and J. Poulsen. 1995. "Recruiting Strangers and Friends: MoralContinue reading

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A Month of Vegan Research: Veganphobia

Dr. Corey WrennNovember 8, 2016June 8, 2018

The following literature review is part of a series for World Vegan Month. Other essays can be accessed by visiting the essays catalog. Cole, M. and K. Morgan. 2011. "Veganphobia: Derogatory Discourses of VeganismContinue reading

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It’s Like, Totally Sexist

Dr. Corey WrennSeptember 26, 2016December 30, 2018

In my 2016 publication, A Rational Approach to Animal Rights, I argue that the Nonhuman Animal rights movement banks on sexist scripts in the interest of promoting veganism. To this effect, stereotypes are frequently employed toContinue reading

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The Surprising History of John Harvey Kellogg and His War on “Meat”

Dr. Corey WrennSeptember 14, 2016January 18, 2019

But although the sheep goes dumb to the slaughter, do not its [sic] eloquent eyes appeal for mercy? Do not the bleating of the calf, the bellowing of the bull, the cackling of the frightenedContinue reading

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White Women Wanted? Research Uncovers Diversity Strains in Vegan Media Spaces

Dr. Corey WrennApril 24, 2016February 8, 2019

A two-part content analysis I began in 2012 has just been published in Societies and the Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics. The first study, published in JAEE examined media diversity in the Nonhuman AnimalContinue reading

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Dr. Wrenn is Senior Lecturer of Sociology with the School of Social Sciences and Co-Director of the Centre for the Study of Social and Political Movements at the University of Kent. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology with Colorado State University in 2016. She was awarded Exemplary Diversity Scholar, 2016 by the University of Michigan’s National Center for Institutional Diversity. She served as council member with the American Sociological Association’s Animals & Society section (2013-2016), was elected Chair in 2018, and co-founded the International Association of Vegan Sociologists in 2020. She serves as Book Review Editor for Society & Animals, Consulting Editor for Psychology of Human-Animal Intergroup Relations, and past Editor for The Sociological Quarterly, is a member of The Vegan Society’s Research Advisory Committee, and hosts Sociology & Animals Podcast. She is the author of A Rational Approach to Animal Rights: Extensions in Abolitionist Theory (Palgrave MacMillan 2016), Piecemeal Protest: Animal Rights in the Age of Nonprofits (University of Michigan Press 2019), Animals in Irish Society (SUNY Press 2021), Vegan Witchcraft: Contemporary Magical Practice and Multispecies Social Change (forthcoming, Routledge, and Vegan Feminism: History, Theory, Activism (forthcoming, Bloomsbury).