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Department of English. Stephen Cushman. Robert C. Taylor Professor. 441 Bryan Hall. 434-924-7105. Contact. Office Hours: I am happy to meet in person, indoors or outdoors, or to speak with you by phone. Please send a message to sbc9g@virginia.edu with times you are free to talk.
He is general editor of the fourth edition of the Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics (2012) and Robert C. Taylor Professor of English at the University of Virginia. Contact Stephen: sbc9g@virginia.edu. Visit Stephen’s University of Virginia Faculty Page.
Oct 28, 2021 · Stephen Cushman is a man who wears many hats: poet, literary scholar, historian, and teacher. His oeuvre reflects this diversity; he has published six collections of poetry, two books of literary criticism, and two books about the Civil War, and is the general editor of the fourth edition of The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and ...
Stephen Cushman lives fifty miles south of this battlefield. A poet and professor of American literature, he wrote Bloody Promenade to confront the fractured legacy of a battle that haunts him through its very proximity to his everyday life. Cushman’s personal narrative is not another history of the battle.
What was it about your upbringing that led to your life as a poet? STEPHEN CUSHMAN: I can think of two ways to answer this question. The first would be to reel off some autobiographical facts that might account for a love of language and literature.
Biography. Stephen Cushman was born in Norwalk, Connecticut, and grew up in the Northeast. In 1982, he moved to Charlottesville, Virginia, and began teaching at the University of Virginia, where he is Robert C. Taylor, Professor of English.
Stephen Cushman has published seven collections of poetry, most recently Keep the Feast (LSU, 2022), as well as two books of criticism and three books about the Civil War. He is general editor of the fourth edition of the Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics (2012) and Robert C. Taylor Professor of English at the University of Virginia.
