Blakey Vermeule
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July 14, 1966
University of California, Berkeley (MA, PhD)
Emily Vermeule (mother)
Adrian Vermeule (brother)
Blakey Vermeule | |
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| Born | Emily Dickinson Blake Vermeule July 14, 1966 Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Education | Yale University (BA) University of California, Berkeley (MA, PhD) |
| Spouse | Terry Castle |
| Relatives | Cornelius Vermeule (father) Emily Vermeule (mother) Adrian Vermeule (brother) |
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.
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]
