Lori Gruen

Lori Gruen is an American philosopher, ethicist, and author who is the William Griffin Professor of Philosophy at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut. Gruen is also Professor of Science in Society, and Professor of Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Wesleyan.

Gruen has written for Time magazine, Al Jazeera, and the Washington Post.

Career After obtaining a BA in philosophy from the University of Colorado Boulder in 1983, Gruen spent a year as a graduate student at the University of Arizona, then worked for the animal liberation movement. In 1987 she published her first book, Animal Liberation: A Graphic Guide, written with Peter Singer and illustrated by David Hine, then returned to the University of Colorado Boulder in 1989, where she completed her PhD in 1994. She also co-coordinates a summer fellowship program in animal studies at Wesleyan.

Hypatia Gruen served as the co-editor of Hypatia, the feminist philosophy journal, from 2008 to 2010, and as a member of its board of associate editors from 2010 to 2015. She edited two special editions of the journal: 25th Anniversary: Feminist Legacies/Feminist Futures (2010) and, with Kari Weil, Animal Others (2012). The journal published a symposium in 2017 on Gruen's idea of "entangled empathy".

In April 2017, Hypatia published a peer-reviewed article by Rhodes College philosophy professor Rebecca Tuvel that compared transgender and transracial identities. New York magazine reported that Gruen was a lead signatory of an open letter calling for the retraction of the article by her former dissertation advisee. Hypatia editor-in-chief stood by the publication of the article.

Selected works (1987) with Peter Singer and David Hine. (1994) with Dale Jamieson (eds.). (1997) with George E. Panichas (eds.). (2007) with Laura Grabel and Peter Singer (eds.). (2011) (2012) with Dale Jemieson and Christopher Schlottmann (eds.). (2014) (ed.) (2014) with Carol J. Adams (eds.). (2015) (2018) with Fiona Probyn-Rapsey (eds.). (2018) (ed.)