{"id":6355,"date":"2018-08-28T15:01:58","date_gmt":"2018-08-28T19:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/english\/?post_type=profile&p=6355"},"modified":"2020-10-06T13:11:32","modified_gmt":"2020-10-06T17:11:32","slug":"bonnie-costello","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/english\/profile\/bonnie-costello\/","title":{"rendered":"Bonnie Costello"},"content":{"rendered":"

For CV\u00a0click here<\/a><\/p>\n

My field is modern and contemporary poetry, and I have taken a variety of approaches to this work, but have been especially interested in visual thinking and intersections between literature and visual arts. My books on Marianne Moore (1981) and Elizabeth Bishop (1991) were among the first full critical studies of these poets and my edition of The Selected Letters of Marianne Moore<\/em> opened up a new window into the history of modernism. Other poets I have often written about include: Wallace Stevens, Robert Frost, W.H. Auden, John Ashbery, Charles Wright, A. R. Ammons, Amy Clampitt and Jorie Graham. In my recent books I have explored landscape and environmental poetry (Shifting Ground<\/em> [2003]), and the interplay of private and public spheres in still life motifs (Planets on Tables<\/em> [2008]). My new book, The Plural of Us: Poetry and Community in Auden and Others, <\/em>will be published by Princeton in 2017.\u00a0 In addition to my academic books and articles, I have occasionally published literary essays on art, travel and memory, and I dabble in translation of Italian poetry. Besides teaching introductory courses and surveys in modern and contemporary poetry, I have offered seminars on a variety of subjects\u2013theories of modern lyric, poetry and the environment, modern poetry and the visual arts, poets and their letters, modernist poetics and the social pressures of the 30s. Below is a sampling of my publications. For the full record please see my attached c.v.<\/p>\n

Selected Publications<\/h5>\n
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  • The Plural of Us: Poetry and Community in Auden and Others<\/em> (forthcoming 2017)<\/li>\n
  • Auden at Work<\/em> (edited volume with Rachel Galvin) (2015)<\/li>\n
  • Planets on Tables<\/em>: Poetry, Still Life and the Turning World (2008)<\/li>\n
  • Shifting Ground<\/em>: Reinventing Landscape in Modern American Poetry (2003)<\/li>\n
  • General Editor,\u00a0The Selected Letters of Marianne Moore (1997)<\/em><\/li>\n
  • Elizabeth Bishop: Questions of Mastery<\/em> (1991)<\/li>\n
  • Marianne Moore: Imaginary Possessions<\/em> (1981)<\/li>\n
  • \u201cElizabeth Bishop and Poetic Tradition\u201d in Cambridge Companion to Elizabeth Bishop (2014)<\/em><\/li>\n
  • \u201cFresh Woods: Elegy and Ecology Among the Ruins,\u201d The Oxford Handbook of the Elegy (2010)<\/em><\/li>\n
  • \u201cWallace Stevens and Marianne Moore,\u201d\u00a0Cambridge Companion to Modern Poetry (2008)<\/em><\/li>\n
  • \u201cLyric and the First Person Plural,\u201d\u00a0Transatlantic Poetry (2008)<\/em><\/li>\n
  • \u201cWallace Stevens and Painting,\u201d\u00a0Cambridge Companion to Wallace Stevens (2007)<\/em><\/li>\n
  • \u201cElizabeth Bishop\u2019s Impersonal Personal,\u201d\u00a0American Literary History (2003)<\/em><\/li>\n
  • \u201cCharles Wright, Giorgio Morandi and the Metaphysics of the Line,\u201d Mosaic (2002)<\/li>\n
  • \u201c\u2018What to Make of a Diminished Thing\u2019: Modern Nature and the Poetic Response,\u201d\u00a0American Literary History 10.4 (1998)<\/em><\/li>\n
  • \u201cJohn Ashbery\u2019s Landscapes,\u201d\u00a0The Tribe of John (1995)<\/em><\/li>\n
  • \u201cNomad Exquisite,\u201d and Editor,\u00a0Verse<\/em>, special issue on Amy Clampitt (1993)<\/li>\n
  • \u201cJorie Graham: Art and Erosion,\u201d\u00a0Contemporary Literature <\/em>33 (1992)<\/li>\n
  • \u201cJohn Ashbery and the Idea of the Reader,\u201d\u00a0Contemporary Literature <\/em>(1982)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Selected Essays on Visual Art:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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    • \u201cContesting Modernity at the Kitchen Table: Still Life in the 1920s\u201d in Before the Fall: American Painting in the Twenties<\/em> (2011)<\/li>\n
    • Morandi, with and without words\u201d in Yale Review<\/em> (2010)<\/li>\n
    • \u201cOutside In and Upside Down: The World of Abelardo Morell,\u201d Yale Review<\/em> (2008)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

      Selected Creative Non-Fiction:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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      • \u201cA Walk Round Hutton Square\u201d in The Gettysburg Review<\/em> (2016)<\/li>\n
      • \u201cThe English Speaking Union\u201d in The Southern Review<\/em> (2016)<\/li>\n
      • \u201cInventory: Encounter with a Father\u2019s Memory of War\u201d in War, Literature and the Arts<\/em> (2012)<\/li>\n
      • \u201cBuenos Aires: City of Statues\u201d in The Yale Review<\/em> (2012)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

        Selected Translations:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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        • Six poems by J. Rodolfo Wilcock in Chicago Quarterly Review<\/em><\/li>\n
        • Translations of Guido Gozzano in Literary Imagination <\/em>(2010, 2012) and Journal of Italian Translation<\/em> (2009)<\/li>\n
        • Translations of Umberto Saba and Salvatore Quasimodo, \u00a0(Literary Imagination<\/em>, 2008)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
          Selected Honors, Grants, and Awards<\/h5>\n
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          • William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor (2017)<\/li>\n
          • NEH Research Fellow (2014-2015)<\/li>\n
          • ACLS\/Cullman Fellow (2011-2012)<\/li>\n
          • Bogliasco Fellow, Liguria Research Center (2005)<\/li>\n
          • Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences\u00a0(2004-)<\/li>\n
          • United Methodist Teacher\/Scholar Award (2004)<\/li>\n
          • Metcalf Award for Excellence in Teaching (1994)<\/li>\n
          • Guggenheim Fellow (1990\u20131)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
            Other Professional Activities<\/h5>\n
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            • Jury, Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1995, 1998, 2000, 2014)<\/li>\n
            • Jury, Bollingen Prize for Poetry (2001)<\/li>\n
            • Director, NEH Summer Seminars for School Teachers (1986, 1988)<\/li>\n
            • Teachers as Scholars Program (1996\u20132001)<\/li>\n
            • Seminars at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (1996\u20139)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":12176,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/6355"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12176"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/6355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6757,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/6355\/revisions\/6757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}