Blakey vermeule biography

American writer (born 1966)

Blakey Vermeule
Born	Emily Dickinson Blake Vermeule (1966-07-14) 14 July 1966 (age 58) Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.
Occupation	Writer, Speaker, Literary Critic

Emily Dickinson Blake "Blakey" Vermeule (born July 14, 1966) is an American scholar of eighteenth-century British literature and theory of mind.^[1] She is a Professor of English at Stanford University.

Biography

Vermeule is the daughter of classicist Emily Vermeule and Cornelius Clarkson Vermeule III, a scholar and former curator at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Her brother, Adrian Vermeule, is a professor at Harvard Law School.^[2] Her wife is Terry Castle, also a professor of English at Stanford.^[3]

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 evolut