Blakey Vermeule
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Emily Dickinson Blake Vermeule, commonly known as Blakey Vermeule (born July 14, 1966) is an American academic.
Vermeule's research interests are British literature from 1660-1800, critical theory, cognitive approaches to literature, major British poets, post-Colonial fiction, and the history of the novel. She is the author of The Party of Humanity: Writing Moral Psychology in Eighteenth-Century Britain. She is currently working on the manuscript of her second book, Making Sense of Fictional People: A Literary and Cognitive Project, which blends historical and literary analysis with cognitive psychology.
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[edit] Family
Daughter of: Emily Vermeule and Cornelius Clarkson Vermeule III Sister of: Adrian Vermeule
Mother of: Feathers Vermeule (deceased), Charles Doglington Vermeule-Castle, and Wallis Doglington Vermeule-Castle
[edit] Education
Ph.D. English Literature, UC Berkeley, 1995
B.A. English, Summa cum Laude, Yale, 1988
[edit] Career
Assistant Professor of English at Yale: 1995
Associate Professor At Northwestern University Since: 2000
At Stanford Since: 2005
[edit] Works
- The Party of Humanity: Writing Moral Psychology in Eighteenth-Century Britain (2000)
