Professor Yasmin Haskell

PhD Sydney  Professor Yasmin Haskell Cassamarca Foundation Chair in Latin Humanism Room: Arts Building, 2.07 Telephone: (61 8) 6488 1632 Email: yah@cyllene.uwa.edu.au

Research interests

Latin literature from the fifteenth to nineteenth centuries; theory and practice of didactic poetry (on philosophy, science, arts, &c) from antiquity to Romanticism;

poetry and poetics of the early modern Society of Jesus; classical tradition; history of medicine.

Current research

The epidemiology of ‘hypochondria’ in early modern Italy.

Latin in the Enlightenment.

Co-ordinator of international research cluster in 'Latin's long histories and interdisciplinary applications' funded by the Australian Research Council

(through the 'Network for Early European Research': http://www.neer.arts.uwa.edu.au/).

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)

L’Ellisse: Studi Storici di Letteratura Italiana (L’Erma di Brettschneider, Rome)

International advisory board of Intellectual History Review (Routledge)

Publications

Monographs and edited collections

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,

with an introduction by Yasmin Haskell (Bari: Levante, 1999).

Loyola’s Bees: Ideology and Industry in Jesuit Latin Didactic Poetry (Oxford: British Academy & Oxford University Press, 2003).

Charles-Alphonse Dufresnoy, De arte graphica, edited with introductory essays and commentary by

C. Allen, Y. Haskell and F. Muecke (Geneva: Droz, 2005).

Latinity and Alterity in the Early Modern Period, ed. Yasmin Haskell and Juanita Feros Ruys, with an introduction by Yasmin Haskell,

forthcoming 2008 (Tempe, AZ: Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies).

Humanism and Medicine in the Early Modern Period, ed. Yasmin Haskell and Susan Broomhall,

forthcoming 2008 (special issue of Intellectual History Review).

Book chapters

‘Sleeping with the Enemy: Tommaso Ceva’s Use and Abuse of Lucretius in the Philosophia novo-antiqua (Milan, 1704)’,

forthcoming 2008 in What Nature Does Not Teach: Didactic Literature in the Medieval and Early Modern Periods, ed. J. Feros Ruys (Turnhout: Brepols).

‘Distant Empires, Buried Signs: In Search of New Worlds of Latin in the Early Modern Period’,

introduction to Latinity and Alterity in the Early Modern Period, ed. Yasmin Haskell and Juanita Feros Ruys,

forthcoming 2008 (Tempe, AZ: ‘Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies’).

Entry on ‘Lucretius’ for Harvard Encyclopedia of the Classical Tradition (forthcoming, Cambridge Mass.).

‘A Dutch Doctor’s Observations on the Health of Scholars, Young and Old:

Gerard Nicolaas Heerkens’ De valetudine litteratorum (Leiden, 1749; Rheims, 1749; Groningen, 1790)’, in Miraculum eruditionis:

Learned Neo-Latin in a Swedish and European Perspective, Festschrift for Hans Helander, ed. Maria Berggren and Christer Henriksén (Uppsala, 2007).

‘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.

‘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), 429-438.

‘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 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.

‘Between Fact and Fiction: The Renaissance Didactic Poetry of Fracastoro, Palingenio and Valvasone’, in Poets and Teachers (above), 77-103.

‘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.

Journal articles

‘Latin Poet-Doctors of the Eighteenth Century: The German Lucretius (Johann Ernst Hebenstreit) versus the Dutch Ovid (Gerard Nicolaas Heerkens)’,

forthcoming in Humanism and Medicine in the Early Modern Period, ed. Y. Haskell and S. Broomhall

‘Poetry or Pathology? Hypochondriacal Priests in Early Modern Naples’, Early Science and Medicine (Leiden: Brill) 12. 2 (2007): 187-213.

‘New Wings on Old Vessels? 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: Annali di Storia della Scienza,

Sixteenth Century Journal, Hermathena.

Media and on-line publications

What’s so New about Neo-Latin?’, on Lingua Franca, ABC Radio National (20 October 2007).

‘Can Chocolate Cure Hypochondria?’, in Lies, Deep Fries and Statistics, ed. Robyn Williams (ABC Books, 2007) [printed version of broadcast on Ockham’s Razor, ABC Radio National, 19 November 2006].

Interview with Robyn Williams on The Science Show, ABC Radio National (11 November 2006).

Interview with Simone Thurtell on the medicinal uses of chocolate on Drive, ABC Radio Newcastle (11 July 2007).

Guest on Australia Talks with Paul Barclay, ABC Radio National (22 November 2006).

‘Can Chocolate Cure Hypochondria?’ on Ockham’s Razor, ABC Radio National (19 November 2006).

‘God’s Unlikely Latin Lovers’, in The Australian HES, 27 September 2006;

revised version published in Company (quarterly of the U.S. Jesuits) Winter 2006, 30-31.

‘Scientific Poetry – Bad for the Digestion?’, on Ockham’s Razor, ABC Radio National (21 May 2006).

‘Revisiting the Dead: Latin Humanism and the Italian Renaissance’, in Multicultural Communities Online 5.2 (2004): 20.

Introduction to the Web Edition of Rainier Carsughi, Ars bene scribendi (1709), University Library of Mannheim (MATEO Project):

http://www.uni-mannheim.de/mateo/desbillons/rainer.html.

In preparation

Publications arising out of Australian Research Council Discovery project on ‘Psychosomatic Illness in Early Modern Italy:

Lessons for Modern Psychiatric Theory and Practice’ (2007-2009), including edited collection,

Diseases of the Imagination and Imaginary Disease in the Early Modern Period for Brepols-NEER series ‘Early European Research’;

and a review article on early modern melancholy and hypochondria for the British Journal for the History of Science.

Book on the Dutch physician and Latin poet, Gerard Nicolaas Heerkens:

Prescribing Ovid: The Latin Works and Networks of the Enlightened Doctor Heerkens (under contract with Duckworth).

Anthology of early modern scientific poetry for ‘Bibliotheca Latinitatis Novae’ (Van Gorcum: Assen).

Commissioned chapter on the Jesuits and Vergil for Blackwell’s Companion to Vergil, ed. Joseph Farrell and Michael Putnam.

Commissioned chapter for Epilanguages: Beyond Idioms and Languages,

ed. Pascale Hummel (Institut national de recherche pédagogique, France).