Yasmin Haskell has been Cassamarca Foundation Chair in Latin Humanism at the University of Western Australia, Perth, since 2003. She is a Chief Investigator in the Australian Research Council's new Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions 1100-1800. She is the author of Loyola's Bees: Ideology and Industry in Jesuit Latin Didactic Poetry (Oxford and British Academy, 2003) and winner of the British Academy Postdoctoral Monographs Competition.