The University of Western Australia

UWA Staff Profile


Professor Yasmin Haskell

Cassamarca Foundation Chair in Latin Humanism

Contact details

Address Classics and Ancient History
The University of Western Australia (M205)
35 Stirling Highway
CRAWLEY WA 6009
Australia
Phone 6488 1632
Fax 6488 1182
Personal homepage http://www.classics.uwa.edu.au/staff/haskell

Major research interests

  • Classical tradition
  • Latin literature from the fifteenth to eighteenth centuries
  • Poetry and poetics of the early modern Society of Jesus
  • Psychosomatic illness in early modern times
  • Theory and practice of didactic poetry (on philosophy, science, arts etc.) from antiquity to Romanticism

Qualifications

BA PhD Syd.

Research profile