Emily Dickinson Blake "Blakey" Vermeule (born July 14, 1966) is an American scholar of eighteenth-century British literature and theory of mind.

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.