Blakey Vermeule
Albert Guérard Professor of Literature
English
Bio
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.
Academic Appointments
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Professor, English
Administrative Appointments
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Vice Chair of English Department, Stanford University (2012 - 2012)
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Co-Chair of Ph.D. Job Placement, English Department, Stanford University (2012 - 2012)
Boards, Advisory Committees, Professional Organizations
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CO-editor on a series on Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance, Palgrave-Macmillan Publishing
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Member, Faculty College English Department Team, Stanford University
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Member, Renaissance Search Committee in the English department, Stanford University
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Co-Chair, Job placement for the English department, Stanford University
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Member, Assistant Professor reappointment committee, English department, Stanford University
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Pre-Major Advisor, Stanford University
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Member, Reappointment Committee of Claire Jarvis, Stanford University
Program Affiliations
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Modern Thought and Literature
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Philosophy and Literature
2024-25 Courses
- Cape Town as Archive: A Material and Ecological History of the Present
OSPCPTWN 72 (Aut) - Citizenship in the 21st Century
COLLEGE 102 (Win) - Philosophy and Literature
DLCL 222 (Aut, Win, Spr) -
Independent Studies (4)
- Curricular Practical Training
ENGLISH 194C (Aut) - Individual Work
ENGLISH 198 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Research Course
ENGLISH 398 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Revision and Development of a Paper
ENGLISH 398R (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum)
- Curricular Practical Training
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Prior Year Courses
2023-24 Courses
- Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
ENGLISH 175 (Win) - Enlightenment and its Shadows: British Literature of the long Eighteenth Century
ENGLISH 322 (Win) - Introduction to Graduate Study for Ph.D. Students
ENGLISH 396 (Aut) - Philosophy and Literature
DLCL 222 (Aut, Win, Spr) - Why College? Your Education and the Good Life
COLLEGE 101 (Aut)
2022-23 Courses
- Paradise Lost
ENGLISH 114B (Spr) - Philosophy and Literature
DLCL 222 (Win, Spr) - The Ethical Gangster: How to be Moral, How to be Good--Mafia Style
ENGLISH 67N (Spr)
2021-22 Courses
- Philosophy and Literature
DLCL 222 (Win)
- Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
All Publications
- David Foster Wallace and Suffering Gesturing Towards Reality: David Foster Wallace and Philosophy edited by Bolger, R. K., Korb, S. Continuum Press. 2014
- The New Unconscious: A Literary Guided Tour The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Literary Studies edited by Lee, J. D., Kirk, A. 2013
- The Unreasonable: A Response to Michael Clune’s Writing Against Time Nonsite.org 2013
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Wit and Poetry and Pope, or The Handicap Principle
CRITICAL INQUIRY
2012; 38 (2): 426-430
View details for DOI 10.1086/662754
View details for Web of Science ID 000299053000015
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A Comeuppance Theory of Narrative and Emotions
POETICS TODAY
2011; 32 (2): 235-253
View details for DOI 10.1215/03335372-1162713
View details for Web of Science ID 000291247000002