Dr. Yasmin Haskell

Biography

Yasmin Haskell is a Professor of History at Monash University and has dedicated her career to the research of early modern intellectual and religious history. Her primary focus is on Latin culture during the early modern period, particularly the Society of Jesus (Jesuits). She has published a significant monograph, 'Loyola's Bees: Ideology and Industry in Jesuit Latin Didactic Poetry,' which won the British Academy Postdoctoral Monographs competition. Haskell has been a leader in exploring the contributions of early modern priests to poetry and has contributed to research teams addressing themes like 'Passions of Learning' and 'Jesuit Emotions'. She has received recognition as a pioneer in the fields of 'Global Latin' and 'Latin Enlightenment', and her current projects involve studying Jesuit poetic pedagogy from the 16th to 18th centuries. A member of several academic organizations including the Academy of Humanities Australia, she actively supervises PhD students with interests in poetry, science, medicine, humanist education, and the emotional history.

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