Yasmin Haskell holds the Cassamarca Chair of Latin Humanism at the University of Western Australia. She is a Chief Investigator in the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions in which she leads the ‘Jesuit Emotions’ and ‘Passions for Learning’ projects. She is editor, most recently, of Diseases of the Imagination and Imaginary Disease in the Early Modern Period (Brepols, 2012).