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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.

Authored book

• Milton's Ovidian Eve
  
  Green, M. (2009). Milton’s Ovidian Eve. Ashgate Publishing.

Book review

• Vincenzo Cartari's Images of the Gods of the Ancients
  
  Green, M. (in press). Vincenzo Cartari’s Images of the Gods of the Ancients. Milton Quarterly, 49, 294-297.
• Milton and Ovid.
  
  Green, M. (2013). Milton and Ovid. Classical Review, 63(2), 597-598. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0009840x13001388
• Milton's Messiah: The Son of God in the Works of John Milton
  
  Green, M. (2012). Milton’s Messiah: The Son of God in the Works of John Milton. Modern Language Review, 107(2), 611-612. https://doi.org/10.5699/modelangrevi.107.2.0611
• Milton, Evil and Literary History
  
  Green, M. (2009). Milton, Evil and Literary History. The Yearbook of English Studies, 39(1), 202-3.
• The Age of Milton and the Scientific Revolution
  
  Green, M. (2008). The Age of Milton and the Scientific Revolution. Modern Language Review, 103(4), 1107-8.

Chapter in book

• ‘Two Great Sexes Animate the World’: Looking Past ‘Milton’s Bogey’ in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein’
  
  Green, M. (2021). ‘Two Great Sexes Animate the World’: Looking Past ‘Milton’s Bogey’ in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein’. In M. Green & S. Al-Akhras (Eds.), Women (Re)Writing Milton (pp. 49-70). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780367760205
• 'Joy and Harmles Pastime': Milton and the Ovidian Arts of Leisure
  
  Green, M. (2014). ’Joy and Harmles Pastime’: Milton and the Ovidian Arts of Leisure. In J. F. Miller & C. E. Newlands (Eds.), A handbook to the reception of Ovid. (pp. 324-338). Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118876169.ch22
• 'Laetus & exilii conditione fruor: Milton's Ovidian Exile'.
  
  Green, M. (2011). ’Laetus & exilii conditione fruor: Milton’s Ovidian Exile’. In J. Ingleheart (Ed.), Two Thousand Years of Solitude: Exile after Ovid (pp. 85-102). Oxford University Press.
• 'Content with the British Islands as My World': The Choice of the Vernacular in the Evolution of Milton's Poetic Identity
  
  Green, M. (2006). ’Content with the British Islands as My World’: The Choice of the Vernacular in the Evolution of Milton’s Poetic Identity. In Z. Mazur & T. Bela (Eds.), Language and identity : English and American studies in the age of globalization. (pp. 188-201). Jagiellonian University Press.
• Ovid (43 BCE-17)
  
  Green, M. (2005). Ovid (43 BCE-17). The Literary Dictionary Company.
• The Aeneid: Virgil (Introduction, Synopsis, and Bibliography, Notes and Glossary)
  
  Green, M. (2004). The Aeneid: Virgil (Introduction, Synopsis, and Bibliography, Notes and Glossary). In The Aeneid : Virgil.. Wordsworth Classics.
• 'Catullus: Life and Works'.
  
  Green, M. (2003). ’Catullus: Life and Works’. In The Literary Encyclopedia.. Literary Dictionary Company.
• Virgil: The Aeneid
  
  Green, M. (2002). Virgil: The Aeneid. In The Literary Encyclopedia.. Literary Dictionary Company.
• Virgil: Life and Work
  
  Green, M. (2002). Virgil: Life and Work. In The Literary Encyclopedia.. Literary Dictionary Company.
• Metamorphoses [Transformations]
  
  Green, M. (2001). Metamorphoses [Transformations]. In The Literary Encyclopedia.. Literary Dictionary Company.
• "Words of Power": The Search for authority in 'Hymn to the Naiads'.
  
  Green, M. (2000). "Words of Power": The Search for authority in ’Hymn to the Naiads’. In R. Dix (Ed.), Mark Akenside: A Reassessment (pp. 183-228). Associated University Press.

Conference Paper

• "Mortal Change": Life after Death in Milton's Paradise
  
  Green, M. (2017). "Mortal Change": Life after Death in Milton’s Paradise [Conference paper]. Presented at Eleventh International Milton Symposium, Exeter University.
• Milton's Global Reach
  
  Green, M. (2017). Milton’s Global Reach [Conference paper].
• 'Image Making and Breaking: Eve as "Goddess Humane"
  
  Green, M. (2016). ’Image Making and Breaking: Eve as "Goddess Humane" [Conference paper].
• The Work-Life Balance: Milton and the Rehabilitation of Otium
  
  Green, M. (2015). The Work-Life Balance: Milton and the Rehabilitation of Otium [Conference paper]. Presented at Cities and Citizens (IMEMS), Durham University.
• Eve and the Reader in Paradise Lost
  
  Green, M. (2015). Eve and the Reader in Paradise Lost [Conference paper]. Presented at Renaissance Society of America, Berlin.
• 'Joy and Harmles Pastime': Milton and Ovidian Leisure
  
  Green, M. (2012). ’Joy and Harmles Pastime’: Milton and Ovidian Leisure [Conference paper]. Presented at Tenth International Milton Symposium, Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo.
• The Neo-Latin Poems for Charles Diodati
  
  Green, M. (2011). The Neo-Latin Poems for Charles Diodati [Conference paper]. Presented at British Milton Seminar, Birmingham and Midland Institute.

Edited book

• Women (Re)Writing Milton
  
  Green, M., & Al-Akhras, S. (Eds.). (2021). Women (Re)Writing Milton. Routledge.

Journal Article

• Mortal Change: Life After Death in Paradise Lost
  
  Green, M. (2018). Mortal Change: Life After Death in Paradise Lost. Milton Studies, 59, 57-90. https://doi.org/10.5325/miltonstudies.59.2018.0057
• Satanic whispers: Milton’s Iblis and the “Great Sultan”
  
  Al-Akhras, S., & Green, M. (2017). Satanic whispers: Milton’s Iblis and the “Great Sultan”. Seventeenth Century, 32(1), 31-50. https://doi.org/10.1080/0268117x.2016.1252279
• Leaving the Garden: Re-visioning Eve in Poetry and Art
  
  Green, M. (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. https://doi.org/10.18848/2326-9960/cgp/v10i04/36434
• Reaching a European Audience: Milton's Neo-Latin Poems for Charles Diodati, 1625-39.
  
  Green, M. (2012). Reaching a European Audience: Milton’s Neo-Latin Poems for Charles Diodati, 1625-39. European Legacy, 17(2), 165-184. https://doi.org/10.1080/10848770.2012.655633
• "Ad Ferrum ... Ab Auro": Degenerative and Regenerative Patterning in the Final Books of Paradise Lost
  
  Green, M. (2007). "Ad Ferrum ... Ab Auro": Degenerative and Regenerative Patterning in the Final Books of Paradise Lost. Modern Language Review, 102(3), 654-671. https://doi.org/10.2307/20467426
• The Virgin in the Garden: Milton's Ovidian Eve
  
  Green, M. (2005). The Virgin in the Garden: Milton’s Ovidian Eve. Modern Language Review, 100(4), 903-922.
• Softening the Stony: Deucalion, Pyrrha, and the Process of Regeneration in Paradise Lost
  
  Green, M. (2001). Softening the Stony: Deucalion, Pyrrha, and the Process of Regeneration in Paradise Lost. Milton Quarterly, 35(1), 9-21. https://doi.org/10.1111/1094-348x.00002
• 'The Vine and her Elm'.
  
  Green, M. (1996). ’The Vine and her Elm’. Modern Language Review, 91(2), 301-16.