Speaker Event, Visiting Professors - Terry Castle & Blakey VermeuleWe are delighted to announce that Professors Terry Castle and Blakey Vermeule (who are leading the Wild Britain Expedition with Stanford Travel/Study), have agreed to speak about their work to our members.

Professor Terry Castle

English professor Terry Castle has been a prized member of the Stanford faculty since joining in 1983. Professor Castle's scholarly interests include 18th century British fiction, the First World War and English art and culture of the 1920s and 1930s. As a child of two British immigrants, she grew up collecting British art and rare books as an interest and homage to her heritage. "I prize the common-sense empirical approach to life; the sense of humor; the understatement and lack of pomposity that seem to characterize any number of British attitudes and cultural productions." 

Walter A. Haas Professor in the Humanities at Stanford University. Free-lance essayist for the New York Times Book Review, London Review of Books, Atlantic, New Republic, Times Literary Supplement and other periodicals

Professor Blakey Vermeule

Author and professor, Blakey Vermeule, has long studied the works of the English Romantic poets. From Blake and Byron to Keats and Coleridge, Professor Vermeule has a profound understanding of the passion, intimacy and vibrant connection the Romantics had with nature. Currently, she is an Associate Professor of English at Stanford. "I have always been passionate about literature and have made the study of British literature my life's work. I am extremely fortunate to be able to teach at Stanford, which is the intellectual equivalent of playing football (soccer) in the Premier League." 

Author of several books including, The Party of Humanity: Writing Moral Psychology in Eighteenth-Century Britain and The Fictional Among Us: Why Do We Care About Literary Characters?

Associate professor of English, Stanford, since 2005. Former Professor of English at Yale University and Northwestern University