Background
William F. Touponce was born on August 7, 1948, in Pittsfield, Massachusets. He was the son of Mary Louise (Fague) Touponce.
Hampshire College, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States
Touponce attended Hampshire College, where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1974.
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, United States
In 1977, Touponce received a Master of Arts at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and Ph.D. in 1981.
Touponce with his mother
Touponce with his ex-wife, Julie Chang, and their son, Nathan.
Touponce with his son, Nathan
Touponce and Julie Chang
Touponce with his ex-wife, Julie Chang, and their son, Nathan.
Touponce with his son, Nathan
Touponce with his family
Touponce with his family
Touponce as a toddler
(Ray Bradbury: The Life of Fiction is the first comprehens...)
Ray Bradbury: The Life of Fiction is the first comprehensive textual, bibliographical, and cultural study of sixty years of Bradbury’s fiction.
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1988
(Like its pioneering predecessor, the one-volume review pu...)
Like its pioneering predecessor, the one-volume review published in 1952 by William F. Nolan, The New Ray Bradbury Review contains articles and reviews about Bradbury but has a much broader scope, including a thematic focus for each issue.
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2010
(The New Ray Bradbury Review is designed principally to st...)
The New Ray Bradbury Review is designed principally to study the impact of Bradbury’s writings on American culture and is the chief publication of The Center for Ray Bradbury Studies—the archive of Bradbury’s writings located at Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis.
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2012
(In Lord Dunsany, H. P. Lovecraft, and Ray Bradbury: Spect...)
In Lord Dunsany, H. P. Lovecraft, and Ray Bradbury: Spectral Journeys, William F. Touponce examines what these three masters of weird fiction reveal about modernity and the condition of being modern in their tales.
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2013
William F. Touponce was born on August 7, 1948, in Pittsfield, Massachusets. He was the son of Mary Louise (Fague) Touponce.
Touponce attended Hampshire College, where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1974 and in 1977, a Master of Arts at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and a Ph.D. in 1981.
Touponce served his country proudly in the Vietnam War with the 192nd Assault Helicopter Company. After Vietnam, Touponce became a lifelong scholar. Touponce settled in Indianapolis in 1984, joining the English department of IUPUI. He spent the next twenty-eight years at IUPUI and when he retired he had published several books on the masters of science fiction and co-founded the Center for Ray Bradbury Studies.
(The New Ray Bradbury Review is designed principally to st...)
2012(Ray Bradbury: The Life of Fiction is the first comprehens...)
1988(Like its pioneering predecessor, the one-volume review pu...)
2010(In Lord Dunsany, H. P. Lovecraft, and Ray Bradbury: Spect...)
2013Touponce was concerned particularly with those authors who chose to write in the genre of the fantastic. What is an author? How does an author transform the genre in which he chooses to write? These questions preoccupy his critical writings. The answers that he found may be expressed in the relatively short form of an article for the Dictionary of Literary Biography or, when it is a question of an author like Ray Bradbury, who has been publishing and reinventing himself for over half a century, in a 600-page book. Indeed he is always fascinated by the multifarious ways in which an author can renew a 'genre memory,' to use a term coined by the Russian literary critic Mikhail Bakhtin, whose theories informed and guided his recent work. The intersection between genre memory and the authorial intention was where he located his work.
Touponce was a member of the Modern Language Association of America, Children’s Literature Association, Science Fiction Research Association and Popular Culture Association.
Touponce was a loving father with a soft voice and a wonderful sense of humor.
Touponce was married to Julie Chang but they divorced on January 1, 1999. They had two children, Dorothy and Nathan.