Blakey Vermeule on Jane Austen

Blakey Vermeule earned her Ph.D. in English Literature at UC Berkeley in 1995, and she has been Professor of English at Stanford University since 2005. Blakey Vermeule's research interests are British literature from 1660-1800, critical theory, cognitive approaches to literature, major British poets, post-Colonial fiction, and the history of the novel. She is the author of The Party of Humanity: Writing Moral Psychology in Eighteenth-Century Britain. She is currently working on the manuscript of her second book, Making Sense of Fictional People: A Literary and Cognitive Project, which blends historical and literary analysis with cognitive psychology.