Who's afraid of the Virgilian wolf?
Almost every student of early modern history, literature and thought will at some stage come up against texts in Latin -- the international language of scholarship, science, medicine, law, religion, and even poetry and drama in this period.
Yasmin Haskell, Cassamarca Foundation Professor in Latin Humanism teaches this 'new', or at least, 'not very old', Latin.
The study of Latin literature since the Renaissance opens doors to all sorts of exciting research opportunities. Prof. Haskell is currently leading an ARC research project on psychosomatic illness in early modern Italy, in collaboration with Professor Sergio Starkstein (Psychiatry, UWA).
She welcomes adventurous classicists who would like to get their teeth stuck into previously unedited texts -- not only from Europe, but from the New World and Asia too.
She is also available to supervise (or co-supervise) non-Latinists with interests in: the classical tradition; the culture of the early modern Jesuits; and the connections between literature, science, and medicine in the early modern period.
