Vegan studies and vegan theory are fields of direct and urgent relevance to the present moment. And, as established in the introduction to this collection, work within these emergent areas of study is growing at a rapid rate. This annotated bibliography collects together the key works that make up vegan studies, providing the reader with concise summaries of major works in the field to date. While not an exhaustive survey of available materials, this annotated bibliography constructs a constellation of texts that exemplify and form the groundwork of the emergent discipline of vegan studies.

Vegan studies draws on the interdisciplinary insights of many fields, most notably those of animal studies, critical animal studies, ecofeminism, posthumanism, food studies, and moral philosophy. However, providing comprehensive overviews of these fields is beyond the scope of this chapter. It is therefore with regret that the bibliography that follows does not include explicit reference to: foundational works of animal rights, ethics, and philosophy (as, for instance, that by Mary Midgley, Tom Regan, and Peter Singer); influential works of ecofeminism (including by Josephine Donovan, Greta Gaard, Lori Gruen, pattrice jones, Marti Kheel, Val Plumwood, and Karen Warren); related work in ecocriticism (including key works by Lawrence Buell, Graham Huggan and Helen Tiffin, Bruno Latour, Joseph Meeker, and Timothy Morton); Continental philosophy that has had a significant impact on vegan theoretical work (most notably the work of Jacques Derrida as well as later work by Matthew Calarco); works of post-humanist philosophy engaged with by many vegan theory scholars (such as by Donna Haraway and Cary Wolfe); work across literary animal studies (such as by Philip Armstrong, Erica Fudge, Anat Pick, Nicole Shukin, Tom Tyler, and Kari Weil); or inter-sectional work on animal liberation and interspecies justice (such as by Sunaura Taylor and Dinesh Wadiwel). Such work has undoubtedly been influential in the development of vegan studies and readers are encouraged to turn to the above authors and to explore further the rich fields from which they draw. However, we have chosen to focus here on texts that either explicitly situate themselves within the field of vegan studies or focus explicitly on veganism in order to establish vegan studies as a field in its own right, even as it draws on and contributes to existing fields of study.