Blakey Vermeule, Associate Professor Primary Office: 460-325 At Stanford Since: 2005 Email: vermeule@stanford.edu Current Year's Courses: Degrees: Ph.D. English Literature, UC Berkeley, 1995 B.A. English, Summa cum Laude, Yale, 1988 |
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. |
