Professor Haynes enjoys teaching Latin at all levels alongside courses in translation that explore the legacy of classical culture more generally. He is particularly interested in how classical literature has been interpreted and valued in the millennia since its creation. He is the author of The Medieval Classic: Twelfth-Century Latin Epic and the Virgilian Commentary Tradition (Oxford UP, 2021) which examines one especially intense moment of creative imitation of the Aeneid when poets competed against each other to outdo Virgil at his own game in his own language. He is currently finishing a book on Petrarch’s indebtedness to earlier medieval Latin poets in his epic, the Africa, a work sometimes considered a harbinger of the Renaissance and a return to a more classical style. Professor Haynes has translated and edited many Latin works to make them more accessible to the wider public. With Ralph Hexter and Laura Pfuntner, he translated and edited Appendix Ovidiana, a collection of Latin poems attributed to Ovid in the Middle Ages, in the Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library series (Harvard UP, 2020). With David Traill, he translated and edited Twelfth-Century Anthologies from Ripoll, Regensburg, and Chartres in the Dallas Medieval Texts & Translations series (Peeters, 2021), and, with Frank Coulson, he has translated and edited Pierre Bersuire’s Moralized Ovid, a compendium of allegorical interpretations of myths organized around Ovid’s Metamorphoses, for the Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library (Harvard UP, 2023).