Staff profile

Mandy Green was a student at Durham where she read English and Latin, Joint Honours, and continued at Durham for her postgraduate studies. Her research interests centre on classical presences in English literature with a particular focus on Ovid and Milton.

Her monograph, Milton’s Ovidian Eve, looks at the ways in which Milton appropriates narrative structures, verbal echoes and literary strategies from the Metamorphoses – not least Ovid’s own central metaphor of continuous transformation – to create a subtly evolving portrait of the first woman, Eve.The book proceeds by a series of unfolding explorations of Eve, examining her alignment with a range of mythological figures from a number of different vantage points. These metamorphic moments, when one mythological figuration effortlessly melts into another, generate an exciting sense of dynamic provisionality about Eve; they become a way of enacting or expressing subtly shifting states of mind and feeling, imparting a sense of psychological depth and authenticity to her responses, which are always in process, moment by moment, rather than fixed and formulated from the outset. Paradise Lost’s complex interplay with the Metamorphoses affects a reading of crucial, defining moments in the narrative and challenges preconditioned responses to the poem, which have derived from easy suppositions about Milton’s attitude to women, pagan mythology and Ovid himself. This study stands at the intersection of a number of seventeenth century cultural contexts and discourses, most notably, gender relations and intertextuality.

Mandy Green is a member of the Centre for the Study of the Classical Tradition, the Centre for Visual Arts and Cultures and the Institute of Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Durham. She is also a member of the British Milton Seminar and reviews titles for the Modern Language Review, Milton Quarterly, Classical Review and the Review of English Studies. She acts as a referee for Milton Studies and is an Associate Editor for the International Journal of the Arts in Society.

Dr Green has supervised research on seventeenth-century drama, poetry and translations, and would welcome students with research interests in early modern English literature and comparative literature.

• Renaissance Studies

Authored book

• Green, Mandy (2009). Milton's Ovidian Eve. Farnham: Ashgate.

Book review

• Green, Mandy (2015). Vincenzo Cartari's Images of the Gods of the Ancients. Milton Quarterly 49: 294-297.
• Green, Mandy (2013). Milton and Ovid. The Classical Review 63(2): 597-598.
• Green, Mandy (2012). Milton's Messiah: The Son of God in the Works of John Milton . Modern Language Review 107(2): 611-612.
• Green, Mandy (2009). Milton, Evil and Literary History. The Yearbook of English Studies 39(1): 202-3.
• Green, Mandy (2008). The Age of Milton and the Scientific Revolution. Modern Language Review 103(4): 1107-8.

Chapter in book

• Green, Mandy (2021). ‘Two Great Sexes Animate the World’ Looking Past ‘Milton’s Bogey’ in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein’. In Women (Re)Writing Milton. Green, Mandy & Al-Akhras, Sharihan New York: Routledge. 49-70.
• Green, Mandy (2014). 'Joy and Harmles Pastime': Milton and the Ovidian Arts of Leisure. In A handbook to the reception of Ovid. Miller, John F. & Newlands, Carole E. Chichester, West Sussex, UK: Wiley-Blackwell. 324-338.
• Green, Mandy (2011). 'Laetus & exilii conditione fruor: Milton's Ovidian Exile'. In Two Thousand Years of Solitude: Exile after Ovid. Ingleheart, Jennifer. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 85-102.
• Green, Mandy (2006). 'Content with the British Islands as My World': The Choice of the Vernacular in the Evolution of Milton's Poetic Identity. In Language and Identity: English and American Studies in the Age of Globalization. Mazur, Zygmunt. & Bela, Teresa. Krakow: Jagiellonian University Press. 1: 188-201.
• Green, Mandy (2004). The Aeneid: Virgil (Introduction, Synopsis, and Bibliography, Notes and Glossary). In The Aeneid: Virgil. Ware: Wordsworth Editions. iv, 358.
• Green, Mandy (2003). 'Catullus: Life and Works'. In The Literary Encyclopedia. The Literary Dictionary Company.
• Green, Mandy (2002). Virgil: The Aeneid. In The Literary Encyclopedia. The Literary Dictionary Company.
• Green, Mandy (2002). Virgil: Life and Work. In The Literary Encyclopedia. The Literary Dictionary Company.
• Green, Mandy (2001). 'Ovid (43 BCE-17)'. In The Literary Encyclopedia. The Literary Dictionary Company.
• Green, Mandy (2001). Metamorphoses [Transformations]. In The Literary Encyclopedia. The Literary Dictionary Company.
• Green, Mandy (2000). "Words of Power": The Search for authority in 'Hymn to the Naiads'. In Mark Akenside: A Reassessment. Dix, Robin Associated University Press. 183-228.

Edited book

• Green, Mandy & Al-Akhras, Sharihan (2021). Women (Re)Writing Milton. Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture. Routledge.

Journal Article

• Green, Mandy (2018). Mortal Change: Life After Death in Paradise Lost. Milton Studies 59: 57-90.
• Al-Akhras, Sharihan & Mandy Green (2016). Satanic whispers: Milton’s Iblis and the “Great Sultan”. The Seventeenth Century 31(3): 1-20.
• Green, Mandy (2015). Leaving the Garden: Re-visioning Eve in Poetry and Art. International Journal of Social, Political, and Community Agendas in the Arts 10(4): 33-52.
• Green, Mandy (2012). Reaching a European Audience: Milton's Neo-Latin Poems for Charles Diodati, 1625-39. The European Legacy 17(2): 165-184.
• Green, Mandy (2007). '"Ad Ferrum Ab Auro": Degenerative and Regenerative Patterning in the Final Books of Paradise Lost.'. Modern Language Review 102(3): 654-671.
• Green, Mandy (2005). The Virgin in the Garden: Milton's Ovidian Eve. Modern Language Review 100(4): 903-922.
• Green, Mandy (2001). 'Softening the Stony: Deucalion, Pyrrha, and the Process of Regeneration in Paradise Lost'. Milton Quarterly 35(1): 9-21.
• Green, Mandy (1996). 'The Vine and her Elm'. Modern Language Review 91(2): 301-16.

Presentation

• Green, Mandy (2017), "Mortal Change": Life after Death in Milton's Paradise, Eleventh International Milton Symposium. Exeter University.
• Green, Mandy (2017), Milton's Global Reach, British Council, Tokyo.
• Green, Mandy (2017), 'Content with these British Islands as my World': Milton's Neo-Latin Poetry and the Search for a Fit Audience, Society for Neo-Latin Studies Neo-Latin Literary Perspectives on Britain and Ireland. Churchill College Cambridge.
• Green, Mandy (2016), 'Image Making and Breaking: Eve as "Goddess Humane", Haifa University.
• Green, Mandy (2015), Eve and the Reader in Paradise Lost, Renaissance Society of America. Berlin.
• Green, Mandy (2015), The Work-Life Balance: Milton and the Rehabilitation of Otium, Cities and Citizens (IMEMS). Durham University.
• Green, Mandy (2012), 'Joy and Harmles Pastime': Milton and Ovidian Leisure, Tenth International Milton Symposium. Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo.
• Green, Mandy (2011), The Neo-Latin Poems for Charles Diodati, British Milton Seminar. Birmingham and Midland Institute.