Emelia Quinn

Emelia Quinn (born 1992) is a British scholar of English known for her work developing vegan theory. She is an assistant professor at the University of Ottawa.

Career Quinn studied for a BA in Film and Literature at the University of Warwick, graduating in 2013. She then went on to study for an MA in Culture and Thought after 1945 at the University of York, which she completed in 2014. It was at York that she was introduced to animal studies by Jason Edwards.

Examples of the vegan camp aesthetic identified by Quinn include a work of scrimshaw in the Hull Maritime Museum's Turner and the Whale exhibition, Lady Gaga's meat dress, and certain mock meats.

Monstrous veganism Reading Veganism introduces the "monstrous vegan". Quinn identifies four traits of the monstrous vegan:

First, monstrous vegans do not eat animals, an abstinence that generates a seemingly inexplicable anxiety in those who encounter them. Second, they are hybrid assemblages of human and nonhuman parts, destabilizing species boundaries. Third, monstrous vegans are sired outside of heterosexual reproduction, the product of male acts of creation. And, finally, monstrous vegans are intimately connected to acts of writing and literary creation.

The trope of the monstrous vegan begins, Quinn argues in Reading Veganism, with the creature created by Victor Frankenstein in Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus.