Symbolism, Its Origins and Its Consequences

Rosina Neginsky is Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies. She teaches Comparative Literature and Art History at the University of Illinois at Springfield, USA. Her area of expertise is English, French and Russian art and literature between 1850 and 1920. She is the author of the book Zinaida Vengerova: In Search of Beauty. A Literary Ambassador between East and West, which underwent two editions, and of a forthcoming book Salome: The Image of a Woman Who Never Was. Neginsky has authored numerous articles on Russian and European artists, poets and writers and three books of poetry; organized the international interdisciplinary conference, Symbolism, Its Origins and Its Consequences, which is the basis for the volume Symbolism, Its Origins and Its Consequences; and curated two art exhibits. She is the president and founder of an international interdisciplinary organization: Art, Literature, Music in Symbolism and Decadence (ALMSD). She has received numerous awards from the National Endowment for Humanities and IREX, and is 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.