Personal Details Form - Professor Yasmin Haskell
| Title | Professor (Professorial Fellow) |
| First name | Yasmin |
| Last name | Haskell |
| Discipline / Department | Classics and Ancient History |
| Institution | University of Western Australia |
| Highest qualification | PhD |
| Date of qualification | 1996 |
| Email address | yah@arts.uwa.edu.au |
| Web address | http://www.classics.uwa.edu.au/staff/haskell |
| Telephone | 6488 1632 |
| Fax | 6488 1009 |
| Mailing address | Classics and Ancient History M205 School of Humanities University of Western Australia 35 Stirling Highway CRAWLEY WA 6009 |
| Thesis topic (for postgraduates) | |
| Current research interests | Neo-Latin literature, especially poetry; early modern Jesuits; early modern didactic, esp. scientific and medical poetry; 'hypochondria' in early modern Italy; early modern reception of classical authors, esp. Lucretius, Vergil, and Ovid. Ongoing projects include book on the eighteenth-century Dutch physician and Latin poet, Gerard Nicolaas Heerkens (for Duckworth); anthology of scientific poetry for 'Bibliotheca Latinitatis Novae'; edited collection on 'Diseases of the Imagination and Imaginary Disease in the Early Modern Period'. |
| Past research interests | Italian Renaissance Latin poets (fifteenth-sixteenth centuries), including Augurello, Marullo, Pontano, Vida, Fracastoro, 'Palingenius', Bruno; Charles-Alphonse Dufresnoy's De arte graphica. |
| Publications | http://www.classics.uwa.edu.au/staff/haskell |
| Recent grants | British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship (1999-2002); Member of the UWA team which bid for establishment of ARC-NEER; UWA small research grant for 'Poetry and Pathology in Early Modern Naples' (2004); ARC Discovery Grant for 'Psychosomatic Illness in Early Modern Italy: Concepts and Communication' (2007-2009): CI-1 Haskell, CI-2 Prof. Sergio Starkstein, Psychiatry, UWA; RAs: Dr Agata Pincelli and Dr Maurizio Campanelli, Rome. |
| Other relevant information | I serve on the editorial boards of the book series 'Neo-Latin Texts and Translations' (Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies) and 'Bibliotheca Latinitatis Novae (Van Gorcum), the journals 'Parergon' (ANZAMEMS) and 'L'Ellisse: Studi Storici di Letteratura Italiana' (L'Erma di Bretschneider), and on the international advisory board of 'Intellectual History Review' (Routledge). |