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Publications

Books

 

  1. Haynes, Roslynn, 2025, The Australian Desert: Nature, Culture, Future, Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon.

  2. Farzin, Sina, Gaines, Susan M., & Haynes, Roslynn D., 2021, Under the Literary Microscope: Science and Society in the Contemporary Novel, Pennsylvania State U.P., University Park, PA.

  3. Haynes Roslynn, 2017, From Madman to Crime Fighter: The Scientist in Western Culture, Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland

  4. Haynes RD, 2013, Desert: Nature and Culture, Reaktion Books Ltd, London

  5. Hayne, Roslynn, 2006, Tasmanian Visions: Landscapes in Writing, Art and Photography, Polymath Press, Hobart

  6. Haynes, Roslynn ,1998, Seeking the Centre: The Australian Desert in Literature, Art and Film, Original, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

  7. Haynes RD; Mcgee RX, 1996, Explorers of the Southern Sky: A History of Australian Astronomy, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

  8. Haynes, Roslynn, 1994, From Faust to Strangelove: Representations of the Scientist in Western Literature, Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore and London

  9. Haynes RD, 1980,  H. G. Wells: Discoverer of the Future, Macmillan, London 

 

 

Book Chapters

 

  1. Haynes, Roslynn (2023). ‘The Nature/Culture Divide: Aboriginal Lessons for the Anthropocene’ in Sushila Shekhawat, Rayson K. Alexander and Swarnalatha Rangarajan, (Eds), Desertscapes in the Global South and Beyond: Anthropocene Naturecultures. New York and London, Routledge, pp. 207 –22.

  2. Haynes, Roslynn (2021). ‘Uluru’ in Symbols of Australia: Imagining a Nation. Sydney: New South Press, pp. 308 – 21.

  3. Haynes, Roslynn (2021). ‘Scientists at Risk’, in Sina Farzin, Roslynn Haynes and Susan Gaines (Eds), Science Under the Literary Microscope: Science and Society in the Contemporary Novel. Philadelphia, PA: Penn State University Press, pp. 77 – 100.

  4. Haynes, Roslynn, Farzin, Sina and Gaines, Susan (2021). ‘Introduction’, Science Under the Literary Microscope: Science and Society in the Contemporary Novel. Philadelphia, PA: Penn State University Press, pp. 1 – 18.

  5. Haynes, Roslynn (2019). ‘Travel Writing and the Desert’ in N. Das and T. Youngs (eds), The Cambridge History of Travel Writing, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 315 – 29.

  6. Haynes, Roslynn (2017). ‘Aufsteig und Fall des “verrückten Wissenschaftlers” im Film’, (‘The Rise and Fall of the Mad Scientist in Film’), in Angela Schwarz (Ed.), Streitfall Evolution: Eine Kulturgeschichte Wien, Köln, Weimer: Böhlau Verlag. Section III, Chapter III. 5., pp. 288 – 307.

  7. Haynes, Roslynn (2010). 'Uluru', in Melissa Harper and Richard White (eds), Symbols of Australia. Sydney: UNSW Press and National Museum of Australia, pp. 176 – 83.

  8. Haynes, Roslynn (2007). 'The Alchemist in Fiction: The Master Narrative', in Joachim Schummer, Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent and Brigitte Van Tiggelen (Eds), The Public Image of Chemistry. Singapore: World Scientific Publishing, pp. 7 – 36.

  9. Haynes, Roslynn (2006). 'Landscapes in Poetry, Painting and Print: Tasmania', in M. Lake (Ed.)  Memory, Monuments and Museums: The Past in the Present. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press and Australian Academy of the Humanities, pp. 194 – 212.

  10. Haynes, Roslynn (2005).  'Inscribing Culture on the Landscape' in Lester, L. and C. Ellis (eds) (2005) Proceedings of Imaging Nature: Media, Environment and Tourism, Cradle Mountain, 27-29 June 2004, http://www.utas.edu.au/arts/imaging/.

  11. Haynes, Roslynn (2005). Entries on 'Mad Scientists', 'Scientists', 'Animal Farm by George Orwell', 'Brave New World by Aldous Huxley', 'Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut', 'The Time Machine by H.,G. Wells' and 'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne', in Gary Westfahl (Ed.), The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy, Westport, CT,: Greenwood Publishing Group.

  12. Haynes, Roslynn (2005).’Van Diemen's Land' in Alison Alexander (Ed.), The Companion to Tasmanian History, Hobart: Centre for Tasmanian Historical Studies, pp.497 – 501.

  13. Haynes, Roslynn (2004). ‘The Unholy Alliance of Science in The Island of Doctor Moreau’ in John S. Partington (Ed), The Wellsian: Essays on H.G. Wells 1976 – 2003. Oss, Netherlands: Equilibris Press, pp.55 – 67.

  14. Haynes, Roslynn (2003). 'From Habitat to Wilderness: Tasmania’s Role in the Politicising of Place' in David Trigger and Gareth Griffiths (Eds), Disputed territories: Land, Culture, Place, and Identity. Hong Kong: University of Hong Kong Press, pp. 84 – 110.

  15. Haynes, Roslynn (2002). ‘Von der Alchemie zur künstlichen Intelligenz – Wissenschaftlerklischees in der westlichen Literatur’ in Stephan Iglhaut and Thomas Spring (Eds), Science + Fiction: zwischen Nanowelt und Globaler Kultur. Berlin: Jovis Verlag GmbH, pp. 192 – 210.

  16. Haynes, R.D. (2002). Entries on Francis Bacon, Pearl Buck, Karel Capek, Arthur Conan Doyle, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ernest Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann, C.S. Lewis, Edward George Bulwer Lytton, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and Robert Louis Stevenson in Pamela Gossin (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Literature and Science. Westport CT: Greenwood, pp. 35 – , 39 – 40, 55­ – 56, 63, 111 – 12, 181 – 2, 196, 227 – 8, 266, 437 – 8, 447 – 8.

  17. Haynes, R.D. (2002). 'Literary Representations of the Scientist', in Pamela Gossin (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Literature and Science. Westport CT: Greenwood, pp. 229 – 34.

  18. Haynes, R.D. (2002). 'Australian Science Fiction', in Pamela Gossin (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Literature and Science. Westport CT: Greenwood, pp.35 – 8.

  19. Haynes, R.D. (2000). 'Celluloid Scientists: Futures Visualized' in Alan Sandison and Robert Dingley (Eds), Histories of the Future: Studies in Fact, Fantasy and Science Fiction. London: Palgrave, pp. 34 –  50.          

  20. Haynes, R.D. (2000). 'Astronomy of the Australian Aborigines' in Helaine Selin and Sun Xiaochun (eds), Astronomy Across Cultures: A History of Non-Western Astronomy. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 53 – 90.

  21. Haynes, R.D. (1998). 'Science and Literature' in Isobel Armstrong (Ed.), Nineteenth-century Literature, in The Annotated Bibliography of English Studies, General Ed. Robert Clark, Lisse, Exton, Abingdon, Tokyo: Swets & Zeitlinger (released on CD ROM).

  22. Haynes, R.D. (1997) 'Two Hundred Years of the Australian Desert in Literature',  in Patrick D. Murphy (Ed.), Literature of Nature: An International Sourcebook. Chicago, London: Fitzroy Dearborn, pp. 259 – 63.

  23. Haynes, R.D. (1997). 'The Desert as Focus in Australian Literature' in Ross Mellick (Ed.), Spirit and Place: The Spiritual and Contemporary Australian Art. Sydney: Museum of Contemporary Art, pp. 88 – 97.

  24. Haynes, R.D. (1996). 'Aboriginal Astronomy' in H. Selin (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Science, Technology and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp.105 – 8.

  25. Haynes, R.D. (1992). 'Science, Myth and Utopia', in Kath Filmer (Ed.), The Twentieth Century Fantasists. London: Macmillan, pp. 8 – 22.

  26. Haynes, R.D. (1991). 'Dream Allegory in Charles Kingsley and Olive Schreiner', in Kath Filmer (Ed.), The Victorian Fantasists: Essays on Culture, Society and Belief. London: Macmillan, pp. 153 – 70.

  27. Haynes, R.D. (1985). 'From Alchemist to Social Scientist - Wells's Development of the Scientist as a Literary Character' in Joy Hooton, (Ed.), Studies in Prose Literature. (Canberra: Faculty of Military Studies, UNSW), pp. 1 – 19.

  28. Haynes, R.D. (1983). 'H.G.Wells' in Sharon K.Hall  (Ed.), Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism. Detroit: Gale Research Co., pp. 553 – 6.

 

Journal articles and reviews in refereed journals

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  1. Haynes, Roslynn and Raymond Haynes (2022).‘The Mathematician as Hero in Audio-Visual Media’, Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik 47:2, 189­–208. DOI: 10.24053/AAA-2022-0011

  2. Haynes, Roslynn D. (2016). ‘Bringing Science into Fiction’, Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, 64:2, 127–148.

  3. Haynes, Roslynn (2014). ‘Ciencia y Literatura: ¿Ya ha acabado la guerra entre las dos culturas?. ?. Mètode: Science Studies Journal 82, 76–84. Transl. ‘Science and Literature: Are the knowledge wars finally over?’ DOI: 10.7203/metode.82.3563

  4. Haynes, Roslynn (2014). ‘Whatever happened to the “mad, bad” scientist? Overturning the stereotype’, Public Understanding of Science online 10 June. DOI: 10.1177/0963662514535689.

  5. Haynes, Roslynn (2011). ‘Restless Spirit’. History Australia, 8:3, 210–212.

  6. Haynes, Roslynn (2010). 'Marie Bjelke Petersen's Romances: Fulfilling the Contract,

  7. Haynes, Roslynn D. (2008). Review of John S. Partington (ed.) H.G. Wells in Nature, 1893–1946: A Reception Reader Vol.31, 68–73.

  8. Haynes, Roslynn D. (2006). Subterranean Worlds: A Critical Anthology, Nineteenth-Century French Studies 34: 3&4, 418–419.

  9. Haynes, Roslynn (2006). 'The Alchemist in Fiction: The Master Narrative', HYLE: International Journal for Philosophy of Chemistry, 12:1, 5–29.

  10. Haynes, Roslynn (2003). ‘From Alchemy to Artificial Intelligence: Stereotypes of the Scientist in Western Literature’, Public Understanding of Science 12, 243–53.

  11. Haynes, Roslynn (2002).'From Habitat to Wilderness: Tasmania’s Role in the Politicising of Place'. Papers and Proceedings of the Tasmanian Historical Research Association 49:4, 269–84.

  12. Haynes, Roslynn (2002) ‘Richard Johnson, The Search for the Inland Sea: John Oxley, Explorer’, Historical records of Australian Science 14:2, 217–9.

  13. Haynes, Roslynn (2002). ‘Santiago Ramón y Cajal: Vacation Stories’, Bulletin of the History of Medicine 76, 623–4.

  14. Haynes, Roslynn. (2002). Review of Elaine Lindsay, Rewriting God: Spirituality in Contemporary Australian Women’s Fiction, Uniting Church Studies 8:1, 63–5.

  15. Haynes, Roslynn (2001).'Romanticism and Environmentalism: the Tasmanian Novels of Marie Bjelke Petersen. Australian Literary Studies 20:1, 62–75.

  16. Haynes, Roslynn (1999). 'Dying of Landscape: E.L. Grant Watson and the Australian Desert', Australian Literary Studies 19:1, 32-43.

  17. Haynes, Roslynn (1998). Myths that won't die: Frankenstein's Footsteps: Science, Genetics and Popular Culture', Nature 20 August 735-6.

  18. Haynes, R.D. (1996). Review of Kate Soper, What is Nature?, Metascience 10, 112-7.

  19. Haynes, R.D. (1996). 'Suspect Scientists and Doubtful Doctors: The Scientist in Film', Helix 5(3):  43-9.

  20. Haynes, R.D. (1996). 'Alfred Bader - The Adventures of a Chemist-Collector', Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, 21:2, 176.

  21. Haynes, R.D. (1996). 'The Power of Myth: Portraits of the Scientist in the Written Word', Helix 5(2): 12-19.

  22. Haynes, R.D. (1996). 'Ambivalent Eulogy: Catherine Martin's "The Explorers"', Westerly, 41(2): 29-47.

  23. Haynes, R.D. (1995). 'The Bourbaki Gambit’, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, 20(4): 350-52.

  24. Haynes, R.D. (1995) 'Frankenstein: the scientist we love to hate', The Public Understanding of Science (U.K.) 4: 435-44.

  25. Haynes, R.D. (1995). 'Dreaming the Stars: The Astronomy of the Australian Aborigines', Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, 20 (2): 187-97.

  26. Haynes, R.D. and Haynes, R.F. (1993). 'The History of Astronomy in Queensland', Vistas in Astronomy, 36: 231-252.

  27. Haynes, R.F., and Haynes, R.D. (1993). '3C 273: The Hazards of Publication', Proceedings of the Australian Astronomical Society, 10: 355-6.

  28. Haynes, R.D. (1992). 'Aboriginal Astronomy', Australian Journal of Astronomy, 4 (3): 127-40.

  29. Haynes, R.D. (1991) 'Representations of Astronomers in Literature', The Astronomy Quarterly, 8: 131-176.

  30. Haynes, R.D. (1991). 'Fatalism and Feminism in the Fiction of Kate Grenville', World Literature Written in English, 31 (1): 60-79.

  31. Haynes, R.D. (1991). Review of Rosaleen Love, The Total Devotion Machine and Other Stories, Metascience 8 (2): 110-1.

  32. Haynes, R.D. (1990). 'The Astronomy of the Australian Aborigines', Astronomy Quarterly, 7: 193-217.

  33. Haynes, R.D. (1989). The Scientist in Literature: Images and Stereotypes - Their Importance, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, 14 (4): 384-405.

  34. Haynes, R.D. (1989). Review of J.A.V. Chapple, Science and Literature in the Nineteenth Century. Metascience, 7 (1): 50-3.

  35. Haynes, R.D. (1990). 'H.G. Wells in Australia', Australian Literary Studies, 14 (3): 280-301.

  36. Haynes, R.D. (1988). 'The Unholy Alliance of Science in The Island of Doctor Moreau', The Wellsian, 11: 13-24.

  37. Haynes, R.D. (1988). 'Shelter from the Holocaust: Astley's Item from the Late News ', Southerly 48 (2): 138-51.

  38. Haynes, R.D. (1987). Review of William J. Broad, Star Warriors, Search 18 (5) 270-1.

  39. Haynes, R.D. (1987). 'Multiple Meanings in Alton Locke's Feverish Dream', Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens, 25: 29-37.

  40. Haynes, R.D. (1986) 'Uses of Dream Allegory by Charles Kingsley and Olive Schreiner', Journal of Mythopoeic Literature Society of Australia, 4 (4): 7-23.

  41. Haynes, R.D. (1986). 'Art as Meaning in Jessica Anderson's Tirra Lirra by the River ', Australian Literary Studies, 12 (3): 316-23.

  42. Subverting the Text', Southerly, 70:2, 41–63.

  43. Haynes, R.D. (1982). 'Charlotte Brontë's Something About Arthur ', AUMLA, 58: 203-5

  44. Haynes, R.D. (1982). 'H.G. Wells's Contribution to Modern Thought', Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, 7 (2): 87-89.

  45. Haynes, R.D. (1981). 'Wells's Debt to Huxley and the Myth of Doctor Moreau', Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens, 13: 31-41.

  46. 45. R.D. (1981). 'Elements of Romanticism in The Story of an African Farm ', English Literature in Transition (1880 - 1920), 2: 59-79.

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Conference papers

 

  1. Haynes, Roslynn (2024). 'Will AI produce a more orderly and beneficent society, or introduce moral complexity and chaos? Let's ask the novelists.' Triennial Australian Literature Conference, "Chaos and Order", Western Sydney University, Parramatta South campus, 2-5 July.

  2. Haynes, Roslynn (2023).  ‘Interrogating AI Societies through Fiction: What do AI Machines reveal about Humanity?’. Australian Academy of the Humanities Symposium, Melbourne, 15-17 November.

  3. Haynes, Roslynn (2014). ‘Visionary Humanitarianism: The Journeys of Charles Darwin and James Backhouse’. At Empire, Humanitarianism and Non-violence in the Colonies. Hobart, Tasmania, 23–24 April

  4. Haynes, Roslynn (2004) ‘The Alchemist in Fiction: The Master Narrative’, presented at Images of Chemistry in the XX Century Conference, Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie, Paris, 17–18 September 2004.   

  5. Haynes R.D. (2005). 'Inscribing Culture on the Landscape', in Imagining Nature: Media, Environment and Tourism, Cradle Mountain, Tasmania,   27 June 2004 - 29 June 2004

  6.   Haynes R.D. (1999). 'Images of the desert in literature, visual arts or film', in Janet Matthews (ed.), Visions of Future Landscapes, Canberra, pp. 57 - 66, presented at Visions of Future Landscapes, Canberra, 02 May 1999 - 05 May 1999

  7.   Haynes R.D. (1998) 'Some mystical affinity: E.L. Grant Watson and the Australian Desert', in Land and identity, Land and Identity, Armidale, NSW, Australia, 27 September 1997 - 30 September 1997.

 

Government reports

 

  1. Haynes, R.D., (1987).  Attitudes to Science and Technology in the Future: A Report for the Commission for the Future Ed. Richard Eckersley.

  2. Haynes, R.D., (1988). Reportage of the News and Current Affairs on the ABC, Report to the ABC Board from the National Advisory Council of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

  3. Haynes, R.D., (1989). Women in Sport and the ABC, Report to the ABC Board from the National Advisory Council of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

 

Other Articles

  1. Haynes, Roslynn (2009). 'Dreaming the Stars', EarthSong Journal 11, Spring, 5–12.

  2. Haynes, Roslynn (2008). 'From Wilderness to Country', EarthSong Journal 9, Spring, 5–12.

  3. Haynes, Roslynn (2006). 'Seeking the Centre', EarthSong Journal 5, Spring, 5–12.

  4. Haynes, Roslynn (2000). ‘Island Prison or Island Paradise?’ Libertas 10:2 (Hobart) iv – xii.

  5. Haynes, Roslynn (1997). 'Dreaming the Sky', Sky and Telescope 94:3, 72-5.

  6. Haynes, R.D. (1996). 'Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know: Why do Scientists have such a bad Press?', Australasian Science (Spring), 2-5.

  7. Haynes, R.D. (1996). Review of Ragbir Bhathal, in Sydney Morning Herald, 15 June.

  8. Haynes, R.D. (1996). Review of Margaret Wertheim in Sydney Morning Herald, 20 April.

  9. Haynes, R.D. (1989). 'Scientists in Literature and the Media: How do they Rate?', Media Information Australia 54: 41-47.

  10. Haynes, R.D. (1989). 'Literature has shaped the Public Perception of Science', The Scientist, 3:12, 9, 11.

 

Public Lectures

 

Apart from Conference papers I have presented numerous 10-week lecture courses to the University of the Third Age, Hobart on the following topics:

Seeking the Centre: The Australian Desert in Writing, Art and Film

Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know: The Scientist in Fiction and Film

Tasmanian Visions: Landscapes in Writing, Art and Photography

Australian Landscape Artists   

 

I have also presented single lectures to general audiences on Aboriginal Astronomy and Aboriginal art, including conducting an Open Forum on Aboriginal Astronomy at the University of Western Sydney, September 16, 2014.

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Public Outreach

 

Frankenstein: The Modern Myth Webinar for Science Magazine Book Shelf, 29 October 2021

On 17 August 2022, I organised and chaired a webinar, ‘Australia First in Space: Lessons from Aboriginal Astronomy’ as part of a series, Australia's Future in Space: An Emerging Agenda for the Social Sciences, sponsored by the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia.

The panel consisted of a practising astronomer, an anthropologist and an Aboriginal Elder who discussed their respective understanding of astronomy and the context within which it had emerged. The conclusion was that much was to be learnt from a mutual understanding of Indigenous and Western science.

The webinar was recorded and has been widely circulated to educational institutions.

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