Nationality American Name Blakey Vermeule | Siblings Adrian Vermeule | |
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Occupation Writer, Speaker, Literary Critic Books Why Do We Care about Literary Characters?, The party of humanity Parents Cornelius Clarkson Vermeule III, Emily Vermeule Grandparents Cornelius Clarkson Vermeule II Similar People Adrian Vermeule, William Blake, Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift | ||
Action Versus Contemplation: Why An Ancient Debate Still Matters
Emily Dickinson Blake Vermeule (born July 14, 1966), commonly known as Blakey Vermeule is an American scholar of eighteenth-century British literature and theory of mind. She is a Professor of English at Stanford University.
Contents
- Action Versus Contemplation Why An Ancient Debate Still Matters
- Is Narrative an Adaptation Roundtable Discussion at Stanford University part 1
- Biography
- Education
- Works
- References
Is Narrative an Adaptation?, Roundtable Discussion at Stanford University, part 1
Biography
Vermeule is the daughter of classicist Emily Vermeule and former Museum of Fine Arts curator Cornelius Clarkson Vermeule III. Her brother, Adrian Vermeule, is a professor at Harvard Law School.
Her research interests include British literature from 1660–1800, critical theory, major British poets, post-Colonial fiction, the history of the novel, the cognitive underpinnings of fiction, and human evolutionary psychology. Her recent scholarship has focused on Darwinian literary studies. Vermeule previously taught at Northwestern University and Yale University.
In 2015, Vermeule co-founded the book review, The New Rambler.
Education
Ph.D. English Literature, University of California, Berkeley, 1995
B.A. English, summa cum laude, Yale University, 1988