Dr Corey Wrenn – SHARKLab

Dr Corey Lee Wrenn is Senior Lecturer in Sociology with the School of Social Sciences at the University of Kent and co-director of the Centre for the Study of Social and Political Movements. She is a vegan feminist sociologist of social movements who specialises in anti-speciesist protest and human-nonhuman relations in the United States, United Kingdom, and Republic of Ireland.

Dr Wrenn is the co-founder of the International Association of Vegan Sociologists. She served as council member with the American Sociological Association’s Animals & Society section (2013-2016) and was elected Chair in 2018. She has served as Book Review Editor to Society and Animals since 2017. In July 2013, she founded the Vegan Feminist Network, an academic-activist project engaging intersectional social justice praxis.

Email: c.l.wrenn@kent.ac.uk

Books:

- Wrenn, C. L. ~2026. Vegan Witchcraft: Contemporary Magical Practice and Multispecies Social Change. London: Routledge.
- Wrenn, C. L. ~2026. Vegan Feminism: History, Theory, Activism. London: Bloomsbury.
- Wrenn, C. L. 2021. Animals in Irish Society: Interspecies Oppression and Vegan Liberation in Britain’s First Colony. New York: SUNY Press.

Book Chapters:

- Wrenn, C. L. 2024. “Selling Veganism in the Age of COVID: Vegan Representation in British Newspapers in 2020.” Pp. 104-118, in Human-Animal Relationships in Times of Pandemic and Climate Crises, J. Browne and Z. Sutton (Eds.). London: Routledge. DOI:.
- Wrenn, C. L. 2024. “Sexism in Animal Activism: The Foie Gras Campaigns.” Pp. 563-576, in The Routledge Companion to Gender and Animals, C. Taylor (ed.). London: Routledge. DOI: 10.4324/9781003273400-48.
- Wrenn, C. L. and L. M. Korimboccus. 2023. “Vegan Feminism Then and Now: Women’s Resistance to Legalised Speciesism across Three Waves of Activism.” Pp. 251-266, in Gendering Green Criminology, E. Milne, P. Davies, J. Heydon, Kay Peggs, and T. Wyatt (Eds.). Bristol: Bristol University Press.
- Wrenn, C. L. 2023. “Animal Rights.” Pp. 148-161, in Handbook of Inequality and the Environment, M. Long, M. Lynch, and P. Stretesky (Ed.). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing. DOI: 10.4337/9781800881136.00019.
- Wrenn, C. L. 2023. “Building a Vegan Feminist Network in the Professionalized Digital Age of Third Wave Animal Activism.” Pp. 235- 248, in Feminist Animal Studies: Theories, Practices, Politics, E. Cudworth, R. McKie, and D. Turgoose (Eds.). Routledge. DOI: 10.4324/9781003222620-18.
- Wrenn, C. L. 2022. “Society Writings.” Pp. 333-348, in The Edinburgh Companion to Vegan Literary Studies, L. Wright and E. Quinn (Eds.). Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh Press.
- Wrenn, C. 2022. “Veganism.” Pp. 128-130, in Preconceived: Challenging the Preconceptions in our Lives, Z. Mednick (Ed.). Self-published.
- Wrenn, C. L. 2021. “Vegan Geographies in Ireland.” Pp. 394-406, in Routledge Handbook to Vegan Studies, L. Wright (Ed.). New York, NY: Routledge.

Key publications:

- - Wrenn, C. L. ~2025. “Gender Nonconformity, Vegan Feminism, and Strategic Intersectionality in the Western Animal Rights Movement.” Social Movement Studies. In revision.
  - Wrenn, C. L. 2023. “Shocked or Satiated? Graphic Imagery and Persistent Commitment in Animal Rights Activism.” Emotions: History, Culture, Society, 7 (2): 298-321. DOI: 10.1163/2208522X-bja10045.
  - Wrenn, C. L. 2023. “Animalizing Appalachia: Sociology, Speciesism, and Classism.” Journal of Appalachian Studies 29 (2): 145-165. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5406/23288612.29.2.02.
  - Wrenn, C. L. 2021. “Who Gives Guinness Strength? Exploring the Animality Politics of Colonial and Postcolonial Irish Food Production.” Saothar: Journal of Irish Labour History 46.
  - Wrenn, C. L. 2021. “Beehives on the Border: Liminal Humans and Other Animals at Skellig Michael.” Irish Journal of Sociology 29 (2): 137-159. DOI: 10.1177/0791603521999957.
  - Wrenn, C. (2020). Piecemeal Protest: Animal Rights in the Age of Nonprofits. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press.
  - Wrenn, C. (2018). Free-Riders in the Non-Profit Industrial Complex: The Problem of Flexitarianism. Society and Animals [Online]:1-25. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685306-12341544.
  - Wrenn, C. (2018). Pussy Grabs Back: Bestialized Sexual Politics and Intersectional Failure in Protest Posters for the 2017 Women’s March. Feminist Media Studies [Online]:1-19. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2018.1465107.
  - Wrenn, C. (2017). Trump Veganism: A Political Survey of American Vegans in the Era of Identity Politics. Societies [Online] 7:1-13. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/soc7040032.
  - Wrenn, C. (2016). Fat Vegan Politics: A Survey of Fat Vegan Activists’ Online Experiences with Social Movement Sizeism. Fat Studies [Online] 6:90-102. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/21604851.2017.1242359.
  - Wrenn, C. et al. (2015). The Medicalization of Nonhuman Animal Rights: Frame Contestation and the Exploitation of Disability. Disability and Society [Online] 30:1307-1327. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/09687599.2015.1099518.
  - Wrenn, C. (2013). Resonance of Moral Shocks in Abolitionist Animal Rights Advocacy: Overcoming Contextual Constraints. Society and Animals [Online] 16:651-668. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685306-12341271.
  - Wrenn, C. and Johnson, R. (2013). A Critique of Single-Issue Campaigning and the Importance of Comprehensive Abolitionist Vegan Advocacy. Food, Culture and Society [Online] 16:651-668. Available at: https://doi.org/10.2752/175174413X13758634982092.