Blakey Vermeule, Professor Primary Office: 460-325 At Stanford Since: 2005 Email: vermeule@stanford.edu Current Year's Courses: Irony: From Socrates to David Foster Wallace Degrees: Ph.D. English Literature, UC Berkeley, 1995 B.A. English, Summa cum Laude, Yale, 1988 Titles: Director of Graduate Admissions Department Vice-Chair |
Blakey Vermeule's research interests are neuroaesthetics, cognitive and evolutionary approaches to art, philosophy and literature, British literature from 1660-1820, 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 writing a book about what mind science has discovered about the unconscious. |
