Cassamarca Foundation Chair in Latin
Humanism
Contact:
Arts Room: 2.07
Phone: (08) 6488 1632
Email: yah @cyllene.uwa.edu.au
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Research Interests:
Neo-Latin literature and the classical tradition; early modern
intellectual history; history of medicine and psychology

Current Projects:
• Diseases of the Imagination and Imaginary Disease
in the Early Modern Period, ed. Yasmin Haskell (in
preparation for Brepols)
• Prescribing Ovid: The Latin Works and Networks of the
Enlightened Doctor Heerkens (in preparation for Duckworth)
• An anthology of early modern Latin scientific poetry for
‘Bibliotheca Latinitatis Novae’ (Van Gorcum)

Editorial Boards
• ‘Neo-Latin Texts and Translations’
(Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, Tempe, AZ)
• ‘Bibliotheca Latinitatis Novae’ (Van Gorcum,
Assen)
• ‘Parergon’ (Journal of the Australian and New
Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies)
• ‘Medievalia et Humanistica’ (Modern Languages
Association of America)
• International advisory board of ‘Intellectual
History Review’ (Routledge)

Publications
Books and Collections
• Latinity and Alterity in the Early Modern
Period, ed. Yasmin Haskell and Juanita Feros Ruys, with an
Introduction by Yasmin Haskell (Tempe, AZ: Medieval and
Renaissance Texts and Studies). In press
• ‘Humanism and Medicine in the Early Modern
Era’, special issue of Intellectual History Review
18.1 (2008), ed. Yasmin Haskell and Susan Broomhall
• Charles-Alphonse Dufresnoy, De arte graphica,
edited with introductory essays and commentary by C. Allen, Y.
Haskell and F. Muecke (Geneva: Droz, 2005)
• Loyola's Bees: Ideology and Industry in Jesuit Latin
Didactic Poetry (Oxford: British Academy & Oxford
University Press, 2003)
• Poets and Teachers: Latin Didactic Poetry and the
Didactic Authority of the Latin Poet from the
Renaissance to the Present (Proceedings of the Fifth
International Symposium of the Cambridge Society for Neo-Latin
Studies, 1996), ed. Y. Haskell and P. Hardie (Bari: Levante
Editori, 1999)

Book chapters/ commissioned articles
• ‘An anatomy of hypochondria? Malachias
Geiger’s Mundus hypochondriacus’, in
Diseases of the Imagination and Imaginary Disease in the
Early Modern Period, ed. Y. Haskell, forthcoming
• ‘Practising what they preach? Virgil and the
Jesuits’, forthcoming in The Blackwell Companion
to Virgil, ed. J. Farrell and M. Putnam
• Entry on ‘Lucretius’ forthcoming in
Harvard Encyclopedia of the Classical Tradition
(Cambridge MA)
• ‘Roads to Rome? Lieven de Meyere’s De ira
libri iii and the Traditions of Jesuit Didactic’,
forthcoming in Atti del colloquio ‘La Compagnia di
Gesù tra Roma, il Belgio e i Paesi Bassi nei secoli
XVI-XVIII’ (Belgian Academy, Rome, May, 2003)
• ‘The Languages of Melancholy in Early Modern
England’, essay review for British Journal for the
History of Science (2008)
• ‘Sleeping with the Enemy: Tommaso Ceva’s Use
and Abuse of Lucretius in the Philosophia
novo-antiqua (Milan, 1704)’, in What Nature
Does Not Teach: Didactic Literature in the Medieval and
Early Modern Periods, ed. J. Feros Ruys (Turnhout:
Brepols), 497-520
• ‘Religion and Enlightenment in the Neo-Latin
Reception of Lucretius’, in the Cambridge
Companion to Lucretius, ed. Stuart Gillespie and
Philip Hardie (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007),
185-201
• ‘Didac-tech? Prolegomena to the Early Modern Poetry
of Information’, in Variantogy I. On Deep Time
Relations of Arts, Sciences and Technologies, ed. Siegfried
Zielinski and Silvia Wagnermeier (Cologne, Walther Koenig, 2005),
209-222
• Y. Haskell, ‘Bad Taste in Baroque Latin: Father
Strozzi’s Poem on Chocolate’, Tous vos gens
à latin: le latin, langue savante, langue mondaine
(XIVe-XVIIe siècles), ed. E. Bury (Geneva: Droz, 2005),
429-39
• ‘The Columbus Paradigm - Or Complex? - in Neo-Latin
Studies’, contribution to SO debate on ‘Neo-Latin
Studies: Significance and Prospects’, Symbolae
Osloenses 76 (2001), 47-51.
• The Masculine Muse: Form and Content in the Latin
Didactic Poetry of Palingenius and Bruno’, in Form and
Content in Didactic Poetry, ed. Catherine Atherton (Bari,
1998), 117-44
• ‘Between Fact and Fiction: The Renaissance Didactic
Poetry of Fracastoro, Palingenio and Valvasone’, in
Poets and Teachers (see above), 77-103

Journal Articles
• ‘Latin Poet-Doctors of the Eighteenth Century:
the German Lucretius (Johann Ernst
Hebenstreit) Versus the Dutch Ovid (Gerard Nicolaas
Heerkens)’, Intellectual History Review18. 1
(2008): 91-101
• ‘Poetry or Pathology: Hypochondriacal Priests in
Early Modern Naples’, Early Science and Medicine
12.2 (2007): 187-213
• ‘Old Wine in New Bottles? Scientific Didactic
Poetry Between Antiquity and Modernity’, essay review of D.
Bitzel, B. Zamagna, Navis Aeria and T. Haye, Das
lateinische Lehrgedicht im Mittelalter, in Studies in
the History and Philosophy of Science 31 (2000): 173-88
• ‘Work or Play? Latin “Recreational”
Georgic Poetry of the Italian Renaissance’,
Humanistica Lovaniensia 48 (1999): 132-59
• ‘Didactic Tradition and Modern Science: G. M.
Mazzolari’s Electricorum libri VI (Rome,
1767)’, Studi Umanistici Piceni 19
(1999): 236-45
• ‘The Tristia of a Greek Refugee: Michael
Marullus and the Politics of Latin Subjectivity after the Fall of
Constantinople’, Proceedings of the Cambridge
Philological Society 44 (1998): 110-36
• ‘‘Renaissance Latin Didactic Poetry on the
Stars: Wonder, Myth and Science’, Renaissance
Studies 12.4 (1998): 495-522.
• ‘Round and Round We Go: The Alchemical Opus
Circulatorium of Giovanni Aurelio Augurello’,
Bibliothèque d'Humanisme et Renaissance 59. 3
(1997): 583-606
• ‘All the Heavens, Truthfully Represented, it Can
Enclose with its Verses’, essay review of Isabelle Pantin,
La Poésie du ciel en France dans la second moitié
du seizième siècle, in Studies in the
History and Philosophy of Science 28. 4 (1997):
681-97

Book reviews
Times Literary Supplement, Journal of Roman Studies,
Classical Review, International Journal of the Classical
Tradition, Neulateinisches Jahrbuch, Parergon, Studies in the
History and Philosophy of Science, Nuncius: Journal of the
History of Science, British Journal for the History of Science,
Sixteenth Century Journal, Hermathena, Medievalia et Humanistica,
Renaissance Quarterly, Early Science and Medicine

Current grants
• 2009-2011: Australian Research Council Discovery
Project grant: ‘Mapping the Latin Enlightenment: Centres
and Peripheries’ ($248,000)
• 2007-2009: Australian Research Council Discovery Project
grant (with S. E. Starkstein (Psychiatry, UWA)):
‘Psychosomatic Illness in Early Modern Italy: Lessons for
Modern Psychiatric Theory and Practice’($129,000)

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