Blakey Vermeule

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

• Professor, English

Administrative Appointments

• Vice Chair of English Department, Stanford University (2012 - 2012)
• Co-Chair of Ph.D. Job Placement, English Department, Stanford University (2012 - 2012)

Boards, Advisory Committees, Professional Organizations

• CO-editor on a series on Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance, Palgrave-Macmillan Publishing
• Member, Faculty College English Department Team, Stanford University
• Member, Renaissance Search Committee in the English department, Stanford University
• Co-Chair, Job placement for the English department, Stanford University
• Member, Assistant Professor reappointment committee, English department, Stanford University
• Pre-Major Advisor, Stanford University
• Member, Reappointment Committee of Claire Jarvis, Stanford University

Program Affiliations

• Modern Thought and Literature
• Philosophy and Literature