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

 

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July 30, 2008

Sinking Ship Productions is proud to present the world premiere of There Will Come Soft Rains as part of the 11th annual New York International Fringe Festival. Using bunraku-inspired puppetery, live video, lightbulbs and bedsheets, Sinking Ship brings to the stage stories by Ray Bradbury, Stanislaw Lem (author of SOLARIS), Bill Pronzini and Barry N. Malzberg, iconic and iconoclastic masters of the genre.  August 8-August 24. Press Release.

 

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.

January 15, 2008

In the Fall of 2008 the Center for Ray Bradbury Studies will publish the first volume of The New Ray Bradbury Review, a special issue devoted to Bradbury and Adaptation. The issue will contain interviews, essays, and archive materials relating to Bradbury in other media. Click on the link to see the cover and table of contents page.

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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