Cover of The Vintage BradburyIn the spring of 2007, IUPUI's School of Liberal Arts gave its approval to the nation’s first center for the study of Ray Bradbury, one of the best-known American cultural figures of the twentieth century. His work and influence spans many aspects of modern American intellectual and popular culture, including mainstream literature, the highly popular genre fields of science fiction, fantasy, horror, and detective fiction, and nearly all forms of media presentation, including radio, television, stage drama, film, magazines, periodical and book illustration, and graphic fiction. He is regarded as a cultural mentor in such widely divergent fields as creative writing, education, public transportation, theme parks, and urban architecture.

With the guidance of its advisory board the faculty and material resources of the center will have a significant impact on Bradbury studies at a national and international level. In coming years, the center will chart out a series of outreach initiatives that will shape the future path of Bradbury studies and promote collaborative research. These initiatives will include on-line bibliographical references, links with related Bradbury research sites, establishment of an electronic list serve community, and sponsored lectures. In addition The Center will publish a yearly journal, The New Ray Bradbury Review,  with contributions from Ray Bradbury, as a central organ for its scholarly activities.

The Center is  seeking submissions on the subject of "Ray Bradbury and Adaptation," for a special inaugural issue of The New Ray Bradbury Review to be published next year.  We will also consider papers on other topics regarding Bradbury's place in SF. Submissions should be in MLA format, preferably in MS Word 6.0 or higher.  Please submit electronically to the director.

At this point, the center is very much a work-in-progress, but we welcome inquiries.  Please check back with us from time to time to find out about new developments.  In the meantime, if you wish to contact the center, please e-mail  or write to the director:

Prof. William F. Touponce
Director, Center for Ray Bradbury Studies
Tel (317) 274-0081
e-mail: wtouponc@iupui.edu

 

The Center for Ray Bradbury Studies
Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis

902 West New York Street
Education and Social Work Building Room 0010
Indianapolis, Indiana 46202-5157

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January 14, 2010

World Premiere engagement of a new musical!

Ray Bradbury's Pandemonium Theatre Company (celebrating its 47th anniversary) presents Ray Bradbury's Wisdom 2116 at the Fremont Centre Theatre in South Pasadena, California on January 16, 2010 running through Saturday, February 27. Book and lyrics by Ray Bradbury. Music by John Hoke. Developed, directed and choreographed by Steve Josephson. Produced by Ray Bradbury and Racquel Lehrman, Theatre Planners. Presented by Ray Bradbury's Pandemonium Theatre Company and Gallimaufry Performing Arts.

For more information visit this link. Or, for reservations call (323) 960-4451.

January 14, 2010

Ray Bradbury will be lecturing and signing books at the Venice Library, 401 S. Venice Blvd, Venice 90291 on Thursday, January 21, 2010

August 25, 2009

Recent news items of note about Bradbury, supplied by John King Tarpinian:

Festival of Books 2009

Ray Bradbury giving a talk before a performance of his three-act play, Yestermorrows

Podcast interview with Bradbury about Apollo 11

LA Stage article

NPR interview about Fahrenheit 451

Top 50 graphic novels on Amazon

Dandelion Wine Podcast

Call for papers on Ray Bradbury!

The New Ray Bradbury Review, a yearly journal designed primarily to study the impact of Ray Bradbury's writings on American culture is seeking submissions for future issues. Edited by The Center for Ray Bradbury Studies, a newly established archive of Bradbury's writings located at Indiana University, it is published by the Kent State University
Press. Issues are organized thematically. Recently published, the first issue is devoted to the question of adaptation, or Bradbury's translation into other media. This inaugural effort also features two of Bradbury's unpublished screenplays, reviews of his work in radio, and an extensive bibliography of Bradbury's adaptation into other media.  Although the journal will consider submissions on any topic related to Bradbury, and welcomes diverse approaches to this influential American author, now in his eighty-eighth year, two future issues are in the planning stages: in Fall 2009, a special issue on Bradbury and Halloween, and in Fall 2010, a special issue devoted to Fahrenheit 451.  Proposed articles should be submitted at least six months in advance of these publication dates. Address all correspondence to the editor, William F. Touponce .  Submissions should be made electronically in MLA format.

October 15, 2008

Professor Touponce talks about recent editing done at The Center for Ray Bradbury Studies, including the Moby Dick screenplay. Click here to see the interview.

April 11, 2008

On Saturday, May 17th, Bradbury will give the plenary lecture at the Eaton Conference on Chronicling Mars. He will also receive a lifetime achievement award by the National Endowment for the Arts. Details of the conference program can be found at http://eatonconference.ucr.edu/program.php.

March 17 , 2008

Ray Bradbury recently held a telephone interview with the Egyptian Big Read conference, coordinated by the U.S. State Department.  Bradbury says that Fahrenheit 451, in an Egyptian translation, "is going into the Library at Alexandria and we discussed and celebrated the fact that my book was entering their library where the first books were burned more than five thousand years ago [two thousand years ago]." Click here to see pictures of Ray just after the interview.

April 19, 2007

Congratulations to Ray Bradbury for winning a much deserved 2007 Pulitzer Special Citation "for his distinguished, prolific and deeply influential career as an unmatched author of science fiction and fantasy." For more information please visit www.pulitzer.org.

 

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