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Born | Emily Dickinson Blake Vermeule July 14, 1966 Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S. |
Education | Yale University (BA) University of California, Berkeley (MA, PhD) |
Spouse | Terry Castle |
Relatives | Cornelius Vermeule (father) Emily Vermeule (mother) Adrian Vermeule (brother) |
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.
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 evolutionary psychology. Her recent scholarship has focused on Darwinian literary studies. [4] [5] Vermeule previously taught at Northwestern University and Yale University.
In 2015, Vermeule co-founded the book review The New Rambler. [6]
Ph.D. English Literature, University of California, Berkeley, 1995
B.A. English, summa cum laude, Yale University, 1988