Renan Larue
Larue in 2013
Born	Côtes-d'Armor, France
Education	University of Paris IV Sorbonne (B.A. in French literature, 2000) EHESS (M.A. in history, 2002) University of Paris I Sorbonne (M.A. in philosophy, 2003) University of Strasbourg (M.A. in classical literature, 2006) Agrégation de lettres modernes (2007) University of Picardy Jules Verne (PhD in French literature, 2011)[1]
Occupations	Historian professor writer
Known for	Creating the first vegan studies course in the United States
Notable work	Le végétarisme et ses ennemis (2015)
Awards	Best PhD Dissertation Award (University of Picardy Jules Verne, 2011) Prix La Bruyère silver medal (Académie Française, 2016)

Renan Larue is a French writer, literary scholar and historian of vegetarianism. He has written several books on vegetarianism and veganism, including Le végétarisme et ses ennemis (2015), a history of vegetarianism from Pythagoras to the modern period, and La pensée végane: 50 regards sur la condition animale (2020). In 2016, he taught the first vegan studies course in the United States at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Born in the Côtes-d'Armor,^[2] Larue studied French literature at the Paris-Sorbonne University, graduating in 2000 with a B.A.. He received three master's degrees: in history from the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in Paris in 2002, in philosophy from the University of Paris I in 2003, and in classical literature from the University of Strasbourg in 2006. In 2007, he received an Agrégation de lettres modernes.^[1]

Larue received a PhD in French literature from the University of Picardy Jules Verne in 2011.^[1] His dissertation examined the history of vegetarianism in the West and was the basis of his first book, Le végétarisme et ses ennemis.^[3]

Larue is an assistant professor of French literature at the University of California, Santa Barbara.^[1] In 2016, he taught a course in vegan studies, described as the first course of its kind in the United States.^[4][5][6] As of 2021, he ran the Vegan Studies program at the University of California, Santa Barbara.^[7]

• (2014). Voltaire (2014). Larue, Renan (ed.). Pensées végétariennes [Vegetarian thoughts]. Paris: Mille et une nuits. ISBN 978-2-7555-0725-6. OCLC 874779576.
• (2015). Larue, Renan (14 January 2015). Le végétarisme et ses ennemis: vingt-cinq siècles de débats [Vegetarianism and its enemies: Twenty-five centuries of debate] (in French). Paris: Presses Universitaires de France. ISBN 978-2-13-061903-1. OCLC 902800957.
• (2017). Giroux, Valéry; Larue, Renan (2017). Le véganisme [Veganism]. Paris: Que sais-je?. ISBN 978-2-13-074947-9. OCLC 1005210137.
• (2019). Larue, Renan (2019). Le végétarisme des Lumières: l'abstinence de viande dans la France du XVIIIe siècle [Vegetarianism during the Enlightenment: Abstinence from meat in 18th-century France]. Paris: Classiques Garnier. ISBN 978-2-406-08709-0. OCLC 1105220048.
• (2020). Larue, Renan. La pensée végane: 50 regards sur la condition animale [Vegan thoughts: 50 perspectives on the condition of animals]. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France. ISBN 978-2130819004