Blakey Vermeule

Blakey Vermeule
Born	Emily Dickinson Blake Vermeule (1966-07-14) 14 July 1966 (age 58) Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.
Occupation	Writer, Speaker, Literary Critic

Emily Dickinson Blake "Blakey" Vermeule (born July 14, 1966) is an American scholar of eighteenth-century British literature and theory of mind.[1] She is a Professor of English at Stanford University.

Biography

Vermeule is the daughter of classicist Emily Vermeule and Cornelius Clarkson Vermeule III, a scholar and former curator at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Her brother, Adrian Vermeule, is a professor at Harvard Law School.[2] Her wife is Terry Castle, also a professor of English at Stanford.[3]

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 scholarship has focused on Darwinian literary studies.[4][5] Vermeule previously taught at Northwestern University and Yale University.

In 2015, Vermeule co-founded the book review The New Rambler.[6]

Education

Ph.D. English Literature, University of California, Berkeley, 1995
B.A. English, summa cum laude, Yale University, 1988

Works

• Action Versus Contemplation: Why an Ancient Debate Still Matters (University of Chicago Press, 2018) ISBN 978-0-226-03223-8
• The Party of Humanity: Writing Moral Psychology in Eighteenth-Century Britain (2000) ISBN 0-8018-6459-3
• Why Do We Care about Literary Characters? (2009) ISBN 0-8018-9360-7

References

1. The New York Times, "Next Big Thing in English: Knowing They Know That You Know", March 31, 2010
2. The Boston Globe, "Cornelius Vermeule, at 83; MFA curator jauntily balanced the ancient with modern"
3. Castle, Terry (2010). The Professor and other writings (1st ed.). New York: Harper. ISBN 978-0-06-167090-9.
4. University of Auckland First International Symposium on Literature and Evolution Archived May 5, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
5. Lisa Zunshine, 'Fiction and Theory of Mind: An Exchange." Philosophy and Literature 31.1 (2007) 189-196
6. Kerr, Orin (March 3, 2015). "The New Rambler". The Washington Post. Retrieved May 24, 2016.