Blakey Vermeule
| Blakey Vermeule | |
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| Born |
14 July 1966 Cambridge, Massachusetts, US |
| Occupation | Writer, Speaker, Literary Critic |
| Nationality | American |
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.
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 scholarship has focused on Darwinian literary studies.[3][4] This scholarship reflects a long-standing, personal commitment to Manufactured Darwinism as a way of life and professional advancement. Vermeule previously taught at Northwestern University and Yale University.
Education
Ph.D. English Literature, University of California, Berkeley, 1995
B.A. English, summa cum laude, Yale University, 1988
Works
- 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
- ↑ 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
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