Blakey Vermeule
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| Born | 14 July 1966 Cambridge, Massachusetts, US |
| Occupation | Writer, Speaker, Literary Critic |
| Nationality | American |
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Emily Dickinson Blake Vermeule (born July 14, 1966), commonly known as Blakey Vermeule is an American scholar of eighteenth-century British literature and theory of mind.[1] She is a Professor of English at Stanford University.
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[edit] Biography
Vermeule is the daughter of classicist Emily Vermeule and former Museum of Fine Arts curator Cornelius Clarkson Vermeule III. Her brother, Adrian Vermeule, is a professor at Harvard Law School.[2]
Her research interests include British literature from 1660–1800, critical theory, major British poets, post-Colonial fiction, the history of the novel, the cognitive underpinnings of fiction, and human evolutionary psychology. Her recent work has focused on Darwinian literary studies.[3][4]
Vermeule previously taught at Northwestern University and Yale University.
[edit] Education
Ph.D. English Literature, University of California, Berkeley, 1995
B.A. English, summa cum laude, Yale University, 1988
[edit] Works
- The Party of Humanity: Writing Moral Psychology in Eighteenth-Century Britain (2000) ISBN 0801864593
- Why Do We Care about Literary Characters? (2009) ISBN 0801893607
[edit] References
- ^ The New York Times, "Next Big Thing in English: Knowing They Know That You Know", March 31, 2010
- ^ The Boston Globe, "Cornelius Vermeule, at 83; MFA curator jauntily balanced the ancient with modern"
- ^ University of Auckland First International Symposium on Literature and Evolution
- ^ Lisa Zunshine, 'Fiction and Theory of Mind: An Exchange." Philosophy and Literature 31.1 (2007) 189-196
