Stephen Cushman

(1982)
Robert C. Taylor Professor
American Literature, Poetry

Degrees

Ph.D. Yale, 1982
M.Phil. Yale, 1981
M.A. Yale, 1980
B.A. Cornell, 1978

Books

  • General Editor, Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 4th edition (in progress).
  • Heart Island (poems). David Robert, 2006.
  • Cussing Lesson (poems). Louisiana State University Press, 2002.
  • Bloody Promenade: Reflections on a Civil War Battle. University Press of Virginia, 1999.
  • Blue Pajamas (poems). Louisiana State University Press, 1998.
  • Fictions of Form in American Poetry. Princeton University Press, 1993.
  • William Carlos Williams and the Meanings of Measure. Yale University Press, 1985.

Articles

  • “The Ambidexterity of Lucinda Roy.”  Multiformalisms.  Ed. Annie Finch and Susan Schultz.  Cincinnati: David Robert Books, forthcoming.
  • “The Battle of the Crater in Recent Fiction.”  Volume of essays on Cold Harbor and the Petersburg Campaign.  Ed. Gary Gallagher.  Chapel Hill: U North Carolina P, forthcoming.
  • “Walt Whitman’s Real Wars.”  Volume of essays from Civil War Conference at Huntington Library.  Ed. Gary Gallagher and Joan Waugh.  Chapel Hill: U North Carolina P, forthcoming.
  • “Five from the Fifties.”  Thinking of Reading.  Ed. Jessica Feldman and Robert Stilling.  Charlottesville: U Virginia P, forthcoming.
  • “In the Key of Kora in Hell,” Cue: A Journal of Prose Poetry 4, 2 (Summer 2007): 33-38.
  • "Perpetual Calendar." Southwest Review 92, 1 (2007).
  • "Speaking of Alaska." Virginia Environmental Law Journal 24, 3 (2005).
  • "American Literary Mirrors," American Mirrors: (Self) Reflections and (Self) Distortions, ed. Felisa Lopez Liquete (Bilbao: University of the Basque Country Press, 2005).
  • "Whitman and Patriotism." Virginia Quarterly Review, 81, 2 (Spring 2005).
  • "Hart Crane's Felicitous Juggling," Meridian, 15 (Spring/Summer 2005).
  • "'The Descent of Winter' and the Poetry of the Calendar" in Rigor of Beauty: Essays in Commemoration of William Carlos Williams.  Ed. Ian D. Copestake.  Bern: Peter Lang, 2004.
  • Introduction to B. A. Botkin's A Civil War Treasury of Tales, Legends and Folklore. Bison Books edition. Lincoln: U Nebraska P, 2001.
  • "Poems of the Civil War, Past and Present." Value and Vision in American Literature: Literary Essays in Honor of Ray Lewis White. Ed. Joseph Candido, Athens: Ohio UP, 2000.
  • "Buff, as in Civil War." Virginia Quarterly Review 75,4 (Autumn 1999).
  • With Stephen Arata, Clare Kinney, et al. "Fit Teachers Though Few." Preparing a Nation's Teachers. New York: MLA, 1999.
  • "Pray Without Ceasing' and the Postmodern Canon," Complexities of Motion: A.R. Ammons's Longer Poems (1999).
  • "A. R. Ammons, or the Rigid Lines of the Free and Easy," Critical Essays on A. R. Ammons (1997).
  • "The Literature and Medicine Movement: The Case of William Carlos Williams, M.D," Pharos (1996).
  • "And the Dove Returned," Callaloo 19, 1 (1996).
  • "A Teacher's Attention," Teaching Resource Center Occasional Paper No. 1. Charlottesville: University of Virginia, 1995.
  • "Make New Professors, But Keep the Old," New Literary History 26, 3 (Summer 1995).
  • "The Capabilities of Charles Wright," The Point Where All Things Meet: Essays on Charles Wright (1995).
  • Entries on "Measure" and "Variable Foot." The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. Ed. Alex Preminger and T. V. F. Brogan. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993.
  • "The Differing Impulses of William Carlos Williams," American Literary History (1991).

Honors

  • Fellow, Virginia Center for the Humanities, 1997
  • Mayo Distinguished Teaching Professor, 1994-1997
  • Fulbright Lecturer, Greece, 1993
  • All-University Teaching Award, 1992
  • Fellow, American Council of Learned Societies, 1986-1987