Faculty: Bonnie Costello

Bonnie Costello
boncos@bu.edu

Professor. A.B., Bennington; Ph.D., Cornell

Teaching and Research Interests: Modern poetry, British and American; environmental literature; relations between poetry and visual art; Italian translation.

Selected Publications: Planets on Tables: Poetry, Still Life and the Turning World (, 2008); Shifting Ground: Reinventing Landscape in Modern American Poetry (2003); General Editor, The Selected Letters of Marianne Moore (1997); Elizabeth Bishop: Questions of Mastery (1991); Marianne Moore: Imaginary Possessions (1981); “Outside In and Upside Down: The World of Abelardo Morell” (Yale Review, 2008); “Fresh Woods: Elegy and Ecology Among the Ruins,” Oxford Book of Elegy (forthcoming, 2008); “Wallace Stevens and Marianne Moore,” Cambridge Companion to Modern Poetry (, 2008); “Lyric and the First Person Plural,” Transatlantic Poetry (forthcoming, 2008); “Wallace Stevens and Painting,” Cambridge Companion to Wallace Stevens (2007); “Elizabeth Bishop’s Impersonal Personal,” American Literary History (2003); “A Whole Climate of Opinion: Auden’s Influence on Bishop” Literary Imagination 5.1 (2003); “Charles Wright, Giorgio Morandi and the Metaphysics of the Line,” Mosaic (2002); “‘What to Make of a Diminished Thing’: Modern Nature and the Poetic Response,” American Literary History 10.4 (1998); “John Ashbery's Landscapes,” The Tribe of John (1995); “Nomad Exquisite,” and Editor, Verse, special issue on Amy Clampitt (1993); “Jorie Graham: Art and Erosion,” Contemporary Literature 33 (1992); “Effects of an Analogy: Stevens and Painting,” Wallace Stevens: The Poetics of Modernism (1986); “John Ashbery and the Idea of the Reader,” Contemporary Literature (1982); translations of Umberto Saba and Salvatore Quasimodo, (Literary Imaginatioin, 2008).

Honors, Grants, and Awards: Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences; United Methodist Teacher/Scholar Award (2004); Metcalf Award for Excellence in Teaching (1994); Guggenheim Fellow (1990-91); NEH Summer Stipend (1990, 1978); Rockefeller Humanities Fellow (1983-84); Mellon Fellow, Harvard (1979-80)

Other Professional Activities: Jury, Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1995, 1998, 2000); Jury, Bollingen (2001); Director, NEH Summer Seminars for School Teachers (1986, 1988); Teachers as Scholars Program (1996-2001); Seminars at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (1996-1999)


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	Bonnie Costello boncos@bu.edu Professor. A.B., Bennington; Ph.D., Cornell Teaching and Research Interests: Modern poetry, British and American; environmental literature; relations between poetry and visual art; Italian translation. Selected Publications: Planets on Tables: Poetry, Still Life and the Turning World (, 2008); Shifting Ground: Reinventing Landscape in Modern American Poetry (2003); General Editor, The Selected Letters of Marianne Moore (1997); Elizabeth Bishop: Questions of Mastery (1991); Marianne Moore: Imaginary Possessions (1981); “Outside In and Upside Down: The World of Abelardo Morell” (Yale Review, 2008); “Fresh Woods: Elegy and Ecology Among the Ruins,” Oxford Book of Elegy (forthcoming, 2008); “Wallace Stevens and Marianne Moore,” Cambridge Companion to Modern Poetry (, 2008); “Lyric and the First Person Plural,” Transatlantic Poetry (forthcoming, 2008); “Wallace Stevens and Painting,” Cambridge Companion to Wallace Stevens (2007); “Elizabeth Bishop’s Impersonal Personal,” American Literary History (2003); “A Whole Climate of Opinion: Auden’s Influence on Bishop” Literary Imagination 5.1 (2003); “Charles Wright, Giorgio Morandi and the Metaphysics of the Line,” Mosaic (2002); “‘What to Make of a Diminished Thing’: Modern Nature and the Poetic Response,” American Literary History 10.4 (1998); “John Ashbery's Landscapes,” The Tribe of John (1995); “Nomad Exquisite,” and Editor, Verse, special issue on Amy Clampitt (1993); “Jorie Graham: Art and Erosion,” Contemporary Literature 33 (1992); “Effects of an Analogy: Stevens and Painting,” Wallace Stevens: The Poetics of Modernism (1986); “John Ashbery and the Idea of the Reader,” Contemporary Literature (1982); translations of Umberto Saba and Salvatore Quasimodo, (Literary Imaginatioin, 2008). Honors, Grants, and Awards: Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences; United Methodist Teacher/Scholar Award (2004); Metcalf Award for Excellence in Teaching (1994); Guggenheim Fellow (1990-91); NEH Summer Stipend (1990, 1978); Rockefeller Humanities Fellow (1983-84); Mellon Fellow, Harvard (1979-80) Other Professional Activities: Jury, Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1995, 1998, 2000); Jury, Bollingen (2001); Director, NEH Summer Seminars for School Teachers (1986, 1988); Teachers as Scholars Program (1996-2001); Seminars at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (1996-1999)

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