Cassamarca Foundation Chair in Latin Humanism and Chief Investigator, ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions: Europe 1100-1800, The University of Western Australia
Yasmin Haskell is a Latinist and intellectual historian with research interests in classical reception studies; Latin in early modern Europe, Asia and the Americas; the early modern Society of Jesus (Jesuits); poetry about science, medicine, and the arts (didactic poetry); and the history of psychiatry and psychotherapy.
She is a Foundation Chief Investigator in the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions in Europe, 1100-1800.
Experience
2003–present
Cassamarca Chair in Latin Humanism, University of Western Australia
1995–2002
Research Fellow, University of Cambridge, UK
Education
1996
University of Sydney, PhD (Renaissance Latin)
Publications
2013
Prescribing Ovid: The Latin Works and Networks of the Enlightened Dr Heerkens, Bloomsbury
2011
Diseases of the Imagination and Imaginary Disease in the Early Modern Period (ed.), Turnhout: Brepols
2010
Latinity and Alterity in the Early Modern Period, ed. (with Juanita Ruys) Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies and Brepols
2003
Loyola's Bees: Ideology and Industry in Jesuit Latin Didactic Poetry, Oxford University Press
Grants and Contracts
2010
Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions
Role:
Chief Investigator
Funding Source:
ARC
2009
Mapping the Latin Enlightenment: Centres and Peripheries
Role:
Chief Investigator
Funding Source:
ARC
2007
Psychosomatic Illness in Early Modern Italy
Role:
Chief Investigator
Funding Source:
ARC
Research Areas
History And Philosophy Of Science (Incl. Non Historical Philosophy Of Science) (220206)
History And Philosophy Of The Humanities (220207)
History And Philosophy Of Medicine (220205)
Latin And Classical Greek Languages (200305)
History Of Ideas (220209)
History Of Philosophy (220210)
Psychiatry (Incl. Psychotherapy) (110319)
Honours
Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (FAHA)