About
Professor Mandy Green serves as Professor in the Department of English Studies at Durham University. Her institutional affiliations include the Centre for the Study of the Classical Tradition, Centre for Visual Arts and Cultures, and Institute of Medieval and Renaissance Studies. She actively contributes to academic discourse as a member of the British Milton Seminar and reviewer for Modern Language Review, Milton Quarterly, Classical Review, and Review of English Studies, while serving as Associate Editor for the International Journal of the Arts in Society.
Her academic foundation was established at Durham University:
- Undergraduate: English and Latin (Joint Honours)
- Postgraduate: Continued studies at Durham
Green's research centers on classical reception in English literature, with concentrated expertise in Ovid and Milton. Her monograph Milton’s Ovidian Eve (2009) pioneers the analysis of how Milton appropriates Ovidian metamorphic structures to construct Eve's psychological complexity in Paradise Lost, challenging reductive interpretations of Milton's gender politics. Her scholarship intersects with gender theory, intertextuality, and seventeenth-century cultural contexts, extending to Milton's Neo-Latin poetry, global reception studies, and reinterpretations of biblical narratives in contemporary art.
Analysis of her publication trajectory reveals an evolution from close textual analysis of Milton-Ovid connections toward broader investigations of transnational reception and feminist reinterpretations. Recent work demonstrates increasing engagement with postcolonial perspectives, cross-cultural adaptations (notably Islamic contexts), and the application of classical metamorphic concepts to modern identity studies, while maintaining rigorous philological foundations.
As a supervisor, Green mentors postgraduate researchers in:
- Seventeenth-century English drama and poetry
- Literary translation studies
- Comparative classical reception
Current supervisee Wanjie Feng exemplifies her commitment to nurturing new scholarship in early modern literature. Green's collaborative work spans multiple interdisciplinary research centers at Durham, facilitating projects that bridge classical studies, visual arts, and literary criticism through regular seminars and international symposia participation.
