Rosina Neginsky is an Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies, Comparative Literature and Art History at the University of Illinois at Springfield. She is the author of the books, Salome: The Image of a Woman Who Never Was (2013), Zinaida Vengerova: In Search of Beauty. A Literary Ambassador between East and West (2006), as well as the author of numerous articles on Russian and European artists, poets and writers. She is particularly interested in pictorial and ekphratic representations in literature in the second part of the 19th century and in psychoanalysis and art.

 

She is a president and a founder of an international interdisciplinary organization Art, Literature, Music in Symbolism and Decadence (ALMSD). In the frame of this organization she organized two international conferences, and as a follow up of these conferences, published one volume of the conference papers, Symbolism, Its Origins and Its Consequences. She is in the process of preparing the second volume, Light and Darkness in Symbolist Movement. She is also a founder, and an editor in chief of the journal Art, Literature and Music in Symbolism, Its Origins and Its Consequences, affiliated with ALMSD. The first issue of this journal is dedicated to Mental Illnesses and Symbolist art and literature.

 

Rosina Neginsky is a poet and authored three books of poetry, Dancing Over the Precipice, Under the Light of the Moon (2002), and Juggler (2009). Her fourth book of poetry, Island, is in print in bilingual edition, in French and in English at the University Press of Paris III.

 

She is a recipient of a number of awards from National Endowment for Humanities and IREX, and a recipient of the University Scholar Award, the most prestigious University of Illinois award which celebrates intellectual and creative achievements of the University of Illinois faculty.