Legendary American science-fiction and fantasy writer Ray Bradbury will be the subject of the 2012 John D. Barlow Lecture in the Humanities at IUPUI on Nov. 8.
Legendary American science-fiction and fantasy writer Ray Bradbury will be the subject of the 2012 John D. Barlow Lecture in the Humanities at IUPUI on Nov. 8.
Legendary American science-fiction and fantasy writer Ray Bradbury will be the subject of the 2012 John D. Barlow Lecture in the Humanities at IUPUI on Nov. 8.
"Becoming Ray Bradbury" author Jonathan R. Eller, professor of English and director of the Center for Ray Bradbury Studies in the Institute for American Thought, a research component of the IU School of Liberal Arts, will present the illustrated lecture, "Cry the Cosmos: Ray Bradbury and the American Imagination."
The lecture will begin at 6:15 p.m. in the IUPUI Campus Center Theater, 420 University Blvd. A reception precedes the lecture in the Campus Center atrium at 5 p.m.
"For more than 60 years, Ray Bradbury has been one of the most recognized figures in American literature and popular culture," Eller says. "Between 1950 and 1962, he captured the American imagination with such enduring titles as 'The Martian Chronicles,' 'The Illustrated Man,' 'Fahrenheit 451,' 'The October Country,' 'Dandelion Wine' and 'Something Wicked This Way Comes.' His increasing commitments to film, television and stage adaptations of his work led inevitably to his decline as a storywriter, but his early tales and media work soon combined to make him the nation's most prominent public advocate of the Space Age -- a role he fulfilled for the rest of his long life."
Eller co-founded the Bradbury Center within the Institute for American Thought in 2007, and he became the center's director in August 2011. He first met Ray Bradbury in 1989, eventually developing a working relationship that lasted until Bradbury's death in June 2012. Since 2000, Eller has edited or co-edited several limited-press editions of Bradbury's works, including "The Halloween Tree" (2005), "Dandelion Wine" (2007) and two collections of stories and precursors related to Bradbury's publication of "Fahrenheit 451: Match to Flame" (2006) and "A Pleasure to Burn" (2010).
The IU School of Liberal Arts at IUPUI hosts the Barlow Lecture in the Humanities in honor of Liberal Arts Dean and Professor Emeritus John D. Barlow. The lecture is free and open to the public, but seating is limited. To RSVP, email LibaRSVP@iupui.edu with "Bradbury" in the subject line.