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[edit]
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[edit]
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[edit]
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[edit]
- ^ Birth year from catalog entry in German National Library, accessed September 16, 2018
- ^ a b "Azer Bestavros, Bonnie Costello Latest Warren Distinguished Professors". Boston University. April 26, 2017. Retrieved April 26, 2017.
- ^ a b Reviews of Marianne Moore: Imaginary Possessions:
- Engel, Bernard F. (1982). American Literature. 54 (1): 140–141. doi:10.2307/2925739. JSTOR 2925739.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Earnshaw, Doris Smith (Spring 1982). World Literature Today. 56 (2): 345–346. doi:10.2307/40137657. JSTOR 40137657.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Butterfield, R. W. (December 1982). Journal of American Studies. 16 (3): 502–503. doi:10.1017/S0021875800014353. JSTOR 27554240. S2CID 145482725.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Burke, Carolyn (1985). "Supposed persons: Modernist poetry and the female subject". Feminist Studies. 11 (1): 131–148. doi:10.2307/3180142. JSTOR 3180142.
- Engel, Bernard F. (1982). American Literature. 54 (1): 140–141. doi:10.2307/2925739. JSTOR 2925739.
- ^ a b Reviews of The Selected Letters of Marianne Moore:
- Schulman, Grace (November 16, 1997). "With Dearest Love, Marianne". The New York Times.
- Earnshaw, Doris (Fall 1998). World Literature Today. 72 (4): 842. doi:10.2307/40154355. JSTOR 40154355.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Kumin, Maxine (Winter 1998). Prairie Schooner. 72 (4): 184–188. JSTOR 40635030.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Green, Fiona (1999). The Cambridge Quarterly. 28 (1): 74–79. doi:10.1093/camqtly/XXVIII.1.74. JSTOR 42967952.
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- ^ a b 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.
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- Millier, Brett (Spring 1992). Harvard Review. 1 (1): 141–142. JSTOR 27559418.
- ^ a b Review of The Plural of Us: Poetry and Community in Auden and Others:
- Brooks, Francesca (August 2018). "Poetry's imagined community". The Cambridge Quarterly. 47 (3): 279–285. doi:10.1093/camqtly/bfy008. S2CID 165690493.
- ^ a b 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. S2CID 143400610.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Righelato, Pat (October 2005). The Modern Language Review. 100 (4): 1106–1107. doi:10.1353/mlr.2005.0172. JSTOR 3737752. S2CID 261936731.
{{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.
- Kalantzis, Dimitrios (November–December 2003). American Book Review. 25 (1).
- ^ a b 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).
- Beidler, Philip (January 2009). American Literature. 81 (1): 201–203. doi:10.1215/00029831-2008-059.
- ^ "Notable Books of the Year 1997: Nonfiction". The New York Times. December 7, 1997.
- ^ a b c "Curriculum vitae" (PDF). Boston University. October 2013. Retrieved September 17, 2018.
- ^ a b "Book by Bonnie Costello selected as winner of Warren-Brooks Award". WKU News. Western Kentucky University. January 10, 2018. Retrieved September 16, 2018.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "Bonnie Costello". Fellows. John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved September 16, 2018.
- ^ "Bonnie Costello F'11". American Council of Learned Societies. Retrieved September 16, 2018.
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