Bonnie Costello
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ProfessorAB, Bennington College
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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,” The Oxford Handbook of the Elegy (2010)
- “Wallace Stevens and Marianne Moore,” Cambridge Companion to Modern Poetry (2008)
- “Lyric and the First Person Plural,” Transatlantic Poetry (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 Imagination, 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 (1990–1)
- NEH Summer Stipend (1990, 1978)
- Rockefeller Humanities Fellow (1983–4)
- 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 (1996–9)