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Blakey Vermeule

Albert Guérard Professor of Literature
Department Role
Director of Graduate Studies
Blakey Vermeule
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.

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Office
460-413

Office Hours

By appointment

Research Interests

Specialization(s)
American Literature-Early (Before 1830)
Restoration/18th Century
Romanticism
Literature and Philosophy
Literature and Psychology/Cognitive Science
Literature and Religion