08_Cassamarca Lecturer_Yasmin Haskell

Yasmin Haskell

Yasmin Haskell, FAHA, holds the Cassamarca Chair of Latin Humanism at the University of Western Australia, Perth. Her research and teaching range from Italian Renaissance Latin literature through the Latin culture of the early modern Jesuits and the Enlightenment, from Classical Reception Studies to History of Emotions. Her books and edited collections include Loyola’s Bees: Ideology and Industry in Jesuit Latin Didactic Poetry (Oxford, 2003), an edition of Charles-Alphonse Dufresnoy’s De arte Graphica (Droz, 2005) (with Christopher Allen and Frances Muecke), Prescribing Ovid: The Latin Works and Networks of the Enlightened Dr Heerkens (Bloomsbury, 2013), Latinity and Alterity in the Early Modern Period (Brepols, 2010) (with Juanita Ruys), Diseases of the Imagination and Imaginary Disease in the Early Modern Period (Brepols, 2011), and Changing Hearts: Performing Jesuit Emotions Between Europe, Asia and the Americas (Brill, 2019) (with Raphaële Garrod). Yasmin was a Foundation Chief Investigator in the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, and was Director of the Institute of Greece, Rome, and the Classical Tradition at the University of Bristol, UK, from 2017-2018.

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