Bonnie Costello

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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]

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Books

Costello's books include:

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. 1 2 "Azer Bestavros, Bonnie Costello Latest Warren Distinguished Professors". Boston University. April 26, 2017. Retrieved April 26, 2017.
  3. 1 2 Reviews of Marianne Moore: Imaginary Possessions:
  4. 1 2 Reviews of The Selected Letters of Marianne Moore:
  5. 1 2 Reviews of Elizabeth Bishop: Questions of Mastery:
  6. 1 2 Review of The Plural of Us: Poetry and Community in Auden and Others:
  7. 1 2 Reviews of Shifting Ground: Reinventing Landscape in Modern American Poetry:
  8. 1 2 Reviews of Planets on Tables: Poetry, Still Life and the Turning World:
  9. ↑ "Notable Books of the Year 1997: Nonfiction". The New York Times . December 7, 1997.
  10. 1 2 3 "Curriculum vitae" (PDF). Boston University. October 2013. Retrieved September 17, 2018.
  11. 1 2 "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.