Blakey Vermeule, Associate Professor

Primary Office: 460-325
Office Hours: Mon. 2:00-4:00 & Th. 1:00-2:00
Office Phone: 650-723-2905

At Stanford Since: 2005

Email: vermeule@stanford.edu

Current Year's Courses:

Eighteenth Century Satire

Pedagogy Seminar 1

Degrees:

Ph.D. English Literature, UC Berkeley, 1995

B.A. English, Summa cum Laude, Yale, 1988

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Blakey Vermeule's research interests are cognitive and evolutionary approaches to literature, British literature from 1660-1820, Philosophy and Literature, post-Colonial fiction, satire, and the history of the novel. She is the author of The Party of Humanity: Writing Moral Psychology in Eighteenth-Century Britain (2000)  and Why Do We Care About Literary Characters? (2009), both from The Johns Hopkins University Press. She is currently working on a book about, among other things, V.S. Naipaul, Jonathan Swift, and the adaptive unconscious.