Swinging the Maelstrom: A Critical Edition

Contributors

Contributors Chris Ackerley’s research area is modernism and his speciality is annotation, especially of the writings of Malcolm Lowry and Samuel Beckett. His first book (with Lawrence J. Clipper), A Companion to Malcolm Lowry’s Under the Volcano (University of British Columbia Press, 1984), has become a standard reference. He updated this in a dedicated issue (Nos. 49–50) of The Malcolm Lowry Review, and in a website dedicated to Under the Volcano. His recent work centred on Samuel Beckett. He has co-authored (with S. E. Gontarski) The Grove Companion to Samuel Beckett (Grove Press, 2004), republished as TheFaberCompaniontoSamuelBeckett(FaberandFaber,2006)andhasannotatedBeckett’s novels Murphy (Journal of Beckett Studies Books, 1998 and Edinburgh University Press, 2004) and Watt (Journal of Beckett Studies Books, 2006 and Edinburgh University Press, 2010). More recently (2012–2014) Ackerly won a prestigious research award from the Royal Society of New Zealand for a major study of the medieval and traditional roots of the modernist aesthetic. Vik Doyen completed his MA thesis on Malcolm Lowry’s Under the Volcano in 1968. He then studied at the University of Pennsylvania and did archival research in the Malcolm Lowry Collection at UBC for his doctoral dissertation Fighting the Albatross of Self : A Genetic Study of the Literary Work of Malcolm Lowry (Katholieke Universiteit te Leuven, 1973). In 1984 he returned to UBC for archival research on Lowry’s October Ferry to Gabriola and published “From Innocent Story to Charon’s Boat: Reading the October Ferry Mss,” in Sherrill Grace’s edition of Swinging the Maelstrom: New Perspectives on Malcolm Lowry (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1992). In 1987 he taught, together with Chris Ackerley, a UBC graduate seminar on the manuscripts of the Malcolm Lowry Collection. He also presented papers on Lowry at international conferences in Norwich (1978), Vancouver (1987 and 2009), Toronto (1997), Antwerp (2005) and Brighton (2007). 201 202 Swinging the Maelstrom Patrick A. McCarthy is the author or editor of 11 books or monographs, over 50 scholarly articles and numerous reference articles and reviews. His publications on Malcolm Lowry include Forests of Symbols: World, Text, and Self in Malcolm Lowry’s Fiction (University of Georgia Press, 1994); Malcolm Lowry’s “La Mordida”: A Scholarly Edition, ed. (University of Georgia Press, 1996); Joyce/Lowry: Critical Perspectives, ed. (UP of Kentucky, 1997); “The World as Book, the Book as Machine: Art and Life in Joyce and Lowry,” in Joyce/Lowry: Critical Perspectives; “Totality and Fragmentation in Lowry and Joyce,” in A Darkness That Murmured: Essays on Malcolm Lowry and the Twentieth Century, (University of Toronto Press, 2000); “Modernism’s Swansong: Malcolm Lowry’s Under the Volcano,” in A Companion to the British and Irish Novel 1945–2000, (Blackwell, 2005); and “Under the Volcano,” in The Literary Encyclopedia. Miguel Mota is an associate professor of English at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. He has published on numerous 20th-century and contemporary writers and filmmakers, including Malcolm Lowry, Derek Jarman, Jeanette Winterson and Mike Leigh. With Paul Tiessen he has published The Cinema of Malcolm Lowry (University of British Columbia Press, 1990). With Chris Ackerley, Vik Doyen, Patrick McCarthy and Paul Tiessen, he is co-editing a trilogy of novels by Lowry, published by the University of Ottawa Press. Furthermore, he has produced a film documentary, After Lowry (2010), and his book on the status of screenplays in print culture is forthcoming from Manchester University Press. Paul Tiessen is the founding editor of the Malcolm Lowry Newsletter (1977–1984) and The Malcolm Lowry Review (1984–2002). Besides scholarly articles and chapters in books on the work of Malcolm Lowry, Tiessen wrote the Introduction for Malcolm Lowry and Margerie Bonner Lowry’s Notes on a Screenplay for F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Tender Is the Night (Bruccoli Clark, 1976). He is the editor and the writer of the introduction to The Letters of Malcolm Lowry and Gerald Noxon 1940–1952 (University of British Columbia Press, 1988). Furthermore, he authored Apparently Incongruous Parts: The Worlds of Malcolm Lowry (Scarecrow Press, 1990) and co-authored (with Miguel Mota) The Cinema of Malcolm Lowry: A Scholarly Edition of Lowry’s ‘Tender Is the Night’ (UBC Press, 1990) and (with Frederick Asals) A Darkness That Murmured: Essays on Malcolm Lowry and the Twentieth Century (University of Toronto Press, 2000). He edited (with Miguel Mota a limited-circulation, non-annotated preliminary transcript of The 1940 Under the Volcano (MLR Editions Canada, 1994) and (with Patrick A. McCarthy) Joyce/Lowry: Critical Perspectives (University...