Miguel Mota (MA, PhD, Queen’s University) writes and teaches in the following areas: post-1945 British literature, with emphasis on the Thatcher years; the relationship between print and film cultures, and image and text more generally, with focus on the status and function of screenplays as print texts; and the life and work of the British/Canadian writer Malcolm Lowry. He has edited or co-edited six books, including The Cinema of Malcolm Lowry, The 1940 Under the Volcano, and Malcolm Lowry’s Poetics of Space. His essays — on Peter Greenaway, Derek Jarman, Jackie Kay, John King, Mike Leigh, Malcolm Lowry, Jeanette Winterson, and others – have appeared in Criticism, Film Criticism, Contemporary Literature, Journal of Screenwriting, Twentieth-Century Literature, Journal of Modern Literature, Critique, and others. He also produced a soundscape installation in Cates Park in North Vancouver and has written and directed a film essay, After Lowry. In 2014, he received a University Killam Teaching Prize.

I am currently involved in the “Editing Modernism in Canada” project. The project’s mandate is primarily directed toward the production of critically edited texts by modernist Canadian authors. Website: http://editingmodernism.ca/

Selected Publications

• “‘We cannot wait to feel at home’: Performing Bodies from Thatcherism to Brexit in the Poems of Jackie Kay.” Forthcoming 2021 in Contemporary Literature.
• “Leaning forward eagerly”: Malcolm Lowry’s Moviegoers and In Ballast to the White Sea.” In Remaking the Voyage: New Essays on Malcolm Lowry and In Ballast to the White Sea. Ed. Helen Tookey and Bryan Biggs. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2019. With P. Tiessen.
• “Malcolm Lowry’s ‘Lost’ Novel: From Paris Stories to Canadian Ashes to Archival Return.” In Translocated Modernisms. Ed. Marta Dvorak, Dean Irvine and Emily Ballantyne. Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 2016. With P. Tiessen.
• Malcolm Lowry’s Poetics of Space: New Critical Essays. Ed. Richard J. Lane and Miguel Mota. Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 2016.
• The 1940 Under the Volcano: A Critical Edition. Ed. Miguel Mota and Paul Tiessen. Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 2015.
• “Malcolm Lowry’s ‘Lost’ Novel: From Paris Stories to Canadian Ashes to Archival Return.” In Translocated Modernisms. Ed. Marta Dvorak, Dean Irvine and Emily Ballantyne. Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press. With P. Tiessen. Forthcoming.
• “Greenaway’s Books: Peter Greenaway’s Published Screenplays.” Journal of Screenwriting 2.2 (2011): 227-246.
• After Lowry. Documentary film. Writer and Director. 2010.
• “Boys Will Be Hooligans: History and Masculine Communities in John King’s England Away.” Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction 50.1 (Spring 2009): 261-274.
• Doing the Malcolm Lowry Walk. Soundscape Installation. The Malcolm Lowry Walk, Cates Park, Dollarton, North Vancouver. July 25^th, 2009.
• “Mike Leigh’s High Hopes: Troubling Home in Thatcher’s Britain.” Film Criticism 32.3 (Spring 2008): 24-40.
• “Derek Jarman’s Caravaggio: The Screenplay as Book.” Criticism: A Quarterly for Literature and the Arts 47.2 (Spring 2005): 177-213.
• “What’s in a Name? The Case of jeanettewinterson.com.” Twentieth Century Literature 50.2 (Summer 2004): 192-206.