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

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
Contact
Email
vermeule [at] stanford.edu
Office
460-413
External Profile
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
Courses
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