CURRICULUM VITAE (Retired) Chair, Department of English University of Central Arkansas Conway, AR 72035 Address: 1510 Freyaldenhoven Lane, Conway AR 72032 Phone: (501) 472-8549 e-mail: jruud@uca.edu EDUCATION FULL-TIME TEACHING EXPERIENCE ADMINISTRATIVE AND RELATED EXPERIENCE ADMINISTRATIVE TRAINING COURSES TAUGHT At UCA (2003-2016): At NSU (1985-2003): SELECTED PUBLICATIONS Scholarly Books Novels Short Stories Conference Proceedings Journal Articles or Sections of Books Reference… Continue reading Jay Ruud
Author: Jay Ruud
Margaret Atwood’s “Variation on the Word Sleep”
Peter Pereira’s “Anagrammer”
John Donne’s Holy Sonnet 7: “At the Round Earth’s Imagined Corners Blow”
Billy Collins’ “Boy Shooting at Statue”
Anthony Doerr’s “Cloud Cuckoo Land”
Anthony Doerr’s Cloud Cuckoo Land, his 2021 follow-up to his 2015 Pulitzer Prize-winning All the Light We Cannot See, is a spectacularly wide-ranging novel that alternates between contemporary thriller, historical novel, and speculative science fiction, that takes readers from fifteenth-century Constantinople to twentieth- and then twenty-first century America and then to a twenty-second century generational… Continue reading Anthony Doerr’s “Cloud Cuckoo Land”
Rogue Roundabout
Review No. 197: The Rogue Roundabout 804 Chestnut Street (No phone number listed) The SituationHe Said: So, 20 years ago who would have predicted that bone-dry Faulkner County would have a microbrewery-restaurant in Downtown Conway? Yet, here it is. In a 5,500 square-foot building that, if memory serves, used to be a payday check-cashing place on… Continue reading Rogue Roundabout
