Bonnie Costello

Bonnie Costello (born 1950)[1] is an American literary scholar, currently the William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor of English at Boston University.[2] Her books include works on the poets Marianne Moore,[3][4] Elizabeth Bishop,[5] and W. H. Auden,[6] and the relation of visual art to poetry through landscape painting[7] and still life.[8]

Books

Costello's books include:

  • Marianne Moore: Imaginary Possessions (Harvard University Press, 1981)[3]
  • Elizabeth Bishop: Questions of Mastery (Harvard University Press, 1991)[5]
  • Shifting Ground: Reinventing Landscape in Modern American Poetry (Harvard University Press, 2003)[7]
  • Planets on Tables: Poetry, Still Life and the Turning World (Cornell University Press, 2008)[8]
  • The Plural of Us: Poetry and Community in Auden and Others (Princeton University Press, 2017)[6]

With Celeste Goodridge and Cristanne Miller she edited The Selected Letters of Marianne Moore (Knopf, 1997)[4], which The New York Times listed as one of the notable books of 1997.[9]

Education and career

Costello is a 1972 graduate of Bennington College.[10] Her doctorate is from Cornell University, in 1977.[10][11] She joined the Boston University faculty in 1977,[10] and became Warren Distinguished Professor in 2017.[2]

Recognition

Costello was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2002.[12] She also became a Guggenheim Fellow in 1990,[13] and a fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies in 2011.[14]

Her book The Plural of Us: Poetry and Community in Auden and Others won the Warren–Brooks Award for 2017.[11]

References
  1. Birth year from catalog entry in German National Library, accessed September 16, 2018
  2. "Azer Bestavros, Bonnie Costello Latest Warren Distinguished Professors". Boston University. April 26, 2017. Retrieved April 26, 2017.
  3. Reviews of Marianne Moore: Imaginary Possessions:
  4. Reviews of The Selected Letters of Marianne Moore:
  5. Reviews of Elizabeth Bishop: Questions of Mastery:
    • Millier, Brett (Spring 1992). Harvard Review. 1 (1): 141–142. JSTOR 27559418.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Dickie, Margaret (June 1992). American Literature. 64 (2): 406–407. doi:10.2307/2927871. JSTOR 2927871.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Becker, Robin (July 1992). "The poet behind the armadillo". The Women's Review of Books. 9 (10–11): 36–37. doi:10.2307/4021346. JSTOR 4021346.
    • Shaw, Robert B. (October 1992). "Elizabeth Bishop and the critics". Poetry. 161 (1): 34–45. JSTOR 20603356.
    • Loeffelholz, Mary (March 1993). The New England Quarterly. 66 (1): 159–164. doi:10.2307/366494. JSTOR 366494.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Gray, Richard (October 1993). The Modern Language Review. 88 (4): 966–967. doi:10.2307/3734459. JSTOR 3734459.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
  6. Review of The Plural of Us: Poetry and Community in Auden and Others:
  7. Reviews of Shifting Ground: Reinventing Landscape in Modern American Poetry:
    • Kalantzis, Dimitrios (November–December 2003). American Book Review. 25 (1).{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Gwiazda, Piotr (March 2004). "Review". American Literature. 76 (1): 199–201. doi:10.1215/00029831-76-1-199. S2CID 162755143.
    • Runchman, A. (July 2004). Essays in Criticism. 54 (3): 297–304. doi:10.1093/eic/54.3.297.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Hogan, William (Summer 2004). Journal of Modern Literature. 27 (4): 129–132. doi:10.1353/jml.2005.0005. JSTOR 3831810. S2CID 162292171.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Roberts, M. A. (January 2005). Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment. 12 (1): 269–270. doi:10.1093/isle/12.1.269.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Beyers, Chris (Spring 2005). College Literature. 32 (2): 195–198. doi:10.1353/lit.2005.0019. JSTOR 25115277.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Righelato, Pat (October 2005). The Modern Language Review. 100 (4): 1106–1107. JSTOR 3737752.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Hedley, Jane (Summer 2006). "Re-engaging the poetics of landscape". Twentieth Century Literature. 52 (2): 241–247. doi:10.1215/0041462X-2006-3004. JSTOR 20479768.
  8. Reviews of Planets on Tables: Poetry, Still Life and the Turning World:
    • Beidler, Philip (January 2009). American Literature. 81 (1): 201–203. doi:10.1215/00029831-2008-059.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Archambeau, Robert (March 2009). "Review". Boston Review.
    • Socarides, Alexandra (Summer 2009). "Bringing History to the Table". Twentieth Century Literature. 55 (2): 255–261. doi:10.1215/0041462X-2009-3008. JSTOR 25733409.
    • Devine, Michael G. (Fall 2009). "Review". William Carlos Williams Review. 29 (2).
    • White, Rose (October 2009). The Modern Language Review. 104 (4): 1131–1132. doi:10.1353/mlr.2009.0148. JSTOR 25655072. S2CID 246646773.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Kearful, Frank J. (January 2010). "Review". Partial Answers: Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas. 8 (1).
  9. "Notable Books of the Year 1997: Nonfiction". The New York Times. December 7, 1997.
  10. "Curriculum vitae" (PDF). Boston University. October 2013. Retrieved September 17, 2018.
  11. "Book by Bonnie Costello selected as winner of Warren-Brooks Award". WKU News. Western Kentucky University. January 10, 2018. Retrieved September 16, 2018.
  12. "New Members of the Academy" (PDF). Induction. American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Fall 2002. pp. 5–13. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2004-06-11. Retrieved 2018-09-17.
  13. "Bonnie Costello". Fellows. John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved September 16, 2018.
  14. "Bonnie Costello F'11". American Council of Learned Societies. Retrieved September 16, 2018.
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