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.
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Born | Emily Dickinson Blake Vermeule 14 July 1966 Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S. |
Occupation | Writer, Speaker, Literary Critic |
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 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]
Ph.D. English Literature, University of California, Berkeley, 1995
B.A. English, summa cum laude, Yale University, 1988