Dr. Cushing earned his Ph.D. from the University of California, Irvine in 1983. His
primary fields are Ancient, Romanticism, and Modern Language. He has published three
books of poetry, all with Cahuenga Press in Loss Angeles: You and the Night and the Music
(1991), The Length of an Afternoon (1999), and Undercurrent Blues (2005). In 1994 he
received Renegade Magazine's "Warlord of the Subculture" Award. He hosts
"Miles Ahead," a weekly jazz program on Cal Poly radio station KCPR. He won the
College of Liberal Arts Distinguished Lecturer Award in 2005. Dr. Cushing joined the
lecturer faculty in 1989.
