Blakey Vermeule, Professor

Primary Office: 460-325
Office Hours: Thurs. 9:00-11:00, 2:00-4:00 & by appt.
Office Phone: 650-723-2905

At Stanford Since: 2005

Email: vermeule@stanford.edu

Current Year's Courses:

Sports and Culture

Irony: From Socrates to David Foster Wallace

Literature and the Brain

Degrees:

Ph.D. English Literature, UC Berkeley, 1995

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

Titles:

Director of Graduate Admissions

Department Vice-Chair

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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.