Gregory Tague

Gregory Frank Tague (born 1957) is an American multidisciplinary literary scholar. He spent most of his career at St. Francis College. He is the founder of the scholarly journal ASEBL Journal and the literary journal Literary Veganism, and general editor for the publisher Bibliotekos.

Education and career Tague was born in 1957 at Bay Ridge Hospital, Brooklyn. He attended Catholic schools and then St. Francis Preparatory School. He went on to study at Queens College, CUNY; initially earth and environmental science, but then English and American literature. He transferred to Brooklyn College due to the commute, graduating in 1979. He worked full-time in corporate law while at Brooklyn, and continued to work alongside his studies while he read for a Master of Arts at Hunter College, CUNY (graduating 1990); an MPhil at New York University (graduating 1996); and a PhD at New York University. His dissertation was supervised by Frederick R. Karl; as a full professor in the Department of Literature, Writing and Publishing and the Interdisciplinary Studies program.

ASEBL Journal ASEBL Journal was a peer-reviewed academic journal founded by Tague and published by St. Francis College. It published its first issue in 2007,

In early editions, the initialism ASEBL signified the "Association for the Study of Ethical Behavior in Literature"; later, this became "Association for the Study of (Ethical Behavior) • (Evolutionary Biology) in Literature". In a "new departure" when regular publication of the journal stopped, ASEBL now stands for "animal studies ethical behavior literacy". Ethos and Behavior: The English Novel from Jane Austen to Henry James (Academica Press, 2008) Making Mind: Moral Sense and Consciousness in Philosophy, Science, and Literature (Rodopi, 2014) Art and Adaptation: A Primer from Notes (Bibliotekos, 2015) Evolution and Human Culture: Texts and Contexts (Brill, 2016) Art and Adaptability: Consciousness and Cognitive Culture (Brill, 2018) An Ape Ethic and the Question of Personhood (Lexington Books, 2020) The Vegan Evolution: Transforming Diets and Agriculture (Routledge, 2022) Forest Sovereignty: Wildlife Sustainability and Ethics (Peter Lang, 2025)

Editor (scholarly) Origins of English Literary Modernism, 1870-1914 (Academica, 2009) Origins of English Dramatic Modernism, 1870-1914 (Academica 2010, with Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe)

Editor (literary) Pain and Memory: Reflections on the Strength of the Human Spirit in Suffering (Bibliotekos, 2009) Common Boundary: Stories of Immigration (Bibliotekos, 2010) Battle Runes: Writings on War (Bibliotekos, 2011) Being Human: Call of the Wild (Bibliotekos, 2012) Puzzles of Faith and Patterns of Doubt: Short Stories and Poems (Bibliotekos, 2013)