R. W. Haynes

The Major Plays of Horton Foote. Mellen Press, 2010.

Critical Insights: Horton Foote. A collection of essays on the playwright/screenwriter. Salem Press, 2016.

Poetry:

Laredo Light. Cyberwit, 2019.

Let the Whales Escape. Finishing Line Press, 2019.

Heidegger Looks at the Moon: Poems by R. W. Haynes. Georgetown, KY: Finishing Line Press, November 2021. Reviewed by Robin Ouzman Hislop (artvilla.com), November 13, 2021.

The Deadly Shadow of the Wall: 60 Poems by R. W. Haynes. Georgetown, KY: Finishing Line Press, November 2022.

Selected Articles

“Downplaying Erasmian Play: Humanism and Serious Politics in Thomas Starkey’s Dialogue between Reginald Pole and Thomas Lupset (ca.1529-1536).”InVerbis XI.1 (University of Palermo, Italy), June 2021, 181-200.

“Replacing the Romantic Plantation: Horton Foote’s Dramatic Engagement from Gone with the Wind (The Musical) to Convicts.” Skenè: Journal of Theatre and Drama Studies (University of Verona, Italy) 5.2, 2019, 81-100.

“The Thirties in New York: Stark Young, Tennessee Williams, Horton Foote, and the Theater.” Reassessing the 1930s South.  Ed. Sarah E. Gardner and Karen L. Cox. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press (May 2018), 87-103.

“Anxious Engagements: Horton Foote and the South in Early Television.” Small-Screen Souths: Region, Identity, and the Cultural Politics of Television. Southern Literary Studies. Ed. Lisa Hinrichsen, Gina Caison, and Stephanie Rountree.  Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press (Fall 2017), 117-132. This book received an “Honorable Mention” for the 2018 C. Hugh Holman Award.

“Hymnological Dramaturgy as Escape from Ideology in Horton Foote.”  Skenè: Journal of Theatre and Drama Studies (University of Verona, Italy) 3.1, 2017, 105-120.

“Sir Thomas Elyot’s Transgressors and Transgressions: Conflicts of Obedience in Henrician England and Dionysian Syracuse,” InVerbis (University of Palermo, Italy) 2, 2016, 17-34.

“Monuments, Memory, and Self-Location: Biographical Resources in Horton Foote’s Drama.” Critical Insights: Horton Foote. Ed. Robert W. Haynes. Ipswich, MA: Salem Press, 2016, 152-173.

“The Sane Face of Texas: Pursuing the Decent Life in Horton Foote’s Films.” Critical Insights: Horton Foote.  Ed. Robert W. Haynes. Ipswich, MA: Salem Press, 2016, 224-237.

Ph.D., English, University of Georgia, 1991. Dissertation: “The Dramaturgy of the Early Tudor Dialogue,” directed by Walter M. Gordon.

M.A., Literature, Institute of Philosophic Studies, University of Dallas, Irving, TX, 1977.

B.A., Classics, “With Distinction,” Macalester College, St. Paul, MN, 1973.

Also attended St. John’s College, Santa Fe and Annapolis, 1971-1972.

TAMUS Regents Professor, Department of Humanities

Texas A&M International University

Laredo, Texas 78045

Classical literature

Medieval and Renaissance Literature

Shakespeare

Southern Literature

Horton Foote

Poetry