Blakey Vermeule
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| Born | 14 July 1966 Cambridge, Massachusetts  United States |
| Occupation | Writer, Speaker, Literary Critic |
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Emily Dickinson Blake Vermeule, commonly known as Blakey Vermeule is an American academic. She is an Associate Professor of English at Stanford University.
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[edit] Family
She is the daughter of academics Emily Vermeule and Cornelius Clarkson Vermeule III. Her brother, Adrian Vermeule, is a professor at Harvard Law School.[1]
She resides in San Francisco with partner Terry Castle and their pets Charles Doglington Vermeule-Castle and Wallis Doglington Vermeule-Castle.[2]
[edit] Education
Ph.D. English Literature, UC Berkeley, 1995
B.A. English, Summa cum Laude, Yale, 1988
[edit] Career
She was an Assistant Professor of English at Yale University from 1995 to 2000 and an Associate Professor at Northwestern University from 2000 to 2005. In 2005 she began work at Stanford University, where she currently teaches.
Vermeule's research interests are British literature from 1660-1800, critical theory, cognitive approaches to literature, major British poets, post-Colonial fiction, the history of the novel, the cognitive underpinnings of fiction, and human evolutionary psychology. She is especially noted for her interdisciplinary work in literature and cognitive evolution.[3] [4]
She is the author of The Party of Humanity: Writing Moral Psychology in Eighteenth-Century Britain. She has recently completed her second book, The Fictional Among Us: Why We Care About Literary Characters.
[edit] Works
- The Party of Humanity: Writing Moral Psychology in Eighteenth-Century Britain (2000) ISBN 0801864593
