Blakey Vermeule
Albert Guérard Professor of Literature

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.
Publications
Office Hours
Mondays 3:30-4:30pm
Wednesdays 3:30-4:30pm
Research Interests
Specialization(s)
American Literature-Early (Before 1830)
Restoration/18th Century
Romanticism
Literature and Philosophy
Literature and Psychology/Cognitive Science
Literature and Religion
Courses
Winter 2023-2024
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
Enlightenment and its Shadows: British Literature of the long Eighteenth Century
Autumn 2023-2024
Intro to Graduate Studies
Spring 2022-2023
Paradise Lost
Winter 2017-2018
The Ethical Gangster
Introduction to English II: Milton and Melville
ENGLISH 85N: Financial Markets in Fiction and Film