Bonnie Costello
Bonnie Costello is an American literary scholar, currently the William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor of English at Boston University.
Her books include works on the poets Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop, and W. H. Auden, and the relation of visual art to poetry through landscape painting and still life.Books
Costello's books include:
- Marianne Moore: Imaginary Possessions
- Elizabeth Bishop: Questions of Mastery
- Shifting Ground: Reinventing Landscape in Modern American Poetry
- Planets on Tables: Poetry, Still Life and the Turning World
- The Plural of Us: Poetry and Community in Auden and Others
With Celeste Goodridge and Cristanne Miller she edited The Selected Letters of Marianne Moore, which The New York Times listed as one of the notable books of 1997.Education and career
Costello is a 1972 graduate of Bennington College. Her doctorate is from Cornell University, in 1977.
She joined the Boston University faculty in 1977, and became Warren Distinguished Professor in 2017.Recognition
Costello was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2002.
She also became a Guggenheim Fellow in 1990,
and a fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies in 2011.
Her book The Plural of Us: Poetry and Community in Auden and Others won the Warren–Brooks Award for 2017.
