Biography

He is the author of Bloody Promenade: Reflections on a Civil War Battle (University Press of Virginia, 1999), Belligerent Muse: Five Northern Writers and How They Shaped Our Understanding of the Civil War (University of North Carolina Press, 2014), and The Generals' Civil War: What Their Memoirs Can Teach Us Today (University of North Carolina Press, 2021). He is also the co-editor of Civil War Witnesses and Their Books: New Perspectives on Iconic Works (Louisiana State University Press, 2021) and Civil War Writing, 1866-1989: New Perspectives on Iconic Texts (Louisiana State University Press, 2019). In addition, he is the author of eight volumes of poems and two critical studies of American poetry, and he is the general editor of the Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. Cushman was named Cavalier Distinguished Professor for 2014-16, and he won a State Council of Higher Education for Virginia Outstand Faculty Award in 2015.