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]
Costello's books include:
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]
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]
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]