CURRICULUM VITAE
ROSINA NEGINSKY Department of Art, Music, Theater Program of Visual Arts University of Illinois at Springfield Tel. 217-3908697 217-3590704 email: [email protected]
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature (Slavic, French, English) with minor in Art History, 1992 (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) MS in Information Sciences, 1997-1999 (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign). BA,MA in Literature and Art History, 1986 (University of Paris-Sorbonne, France)
PRESENT ACADEMIC POSITIONS
2016 – present: Associate Professor of Art History 2004 – 2016: Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies (specialization in Art History and Comparative Literature) 2000-2004: Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies (LIS/LNT, specialization in Art History and Comparative European Literature)
PREVIOUS ACADEMIC POSITIONS
University of Wisconsin (1999-2000) University of Illinois at UIUC (1997-1999) Alliance Française de Chicago (1997-2000) Ecole Politechnique, Paris (1994-1997) Kenyon College (1993-1994) Grinnell College (1989-1993)
TEACHING and RESEARCH INTERESTS
European Art from Renaissance to mid-XXth century. Psychoanalysis, Art and Literature. Jung, Art and Literature. European Cinema. Ecole de Paris (School of Paris). Russian Avant-Garde, Russian Symbolism. European Symbolism in Art, Literature and Music. Sculpture.
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Courses that are presently taught: European Cinema, Expatriate Paris, Ancient Greek and Biblical Motifs in European Culture, Symbolist Movement in Europe.
RESEARCH POSITIONS
University of Paris IV-Sorbonne, Paris, France, 2015-présent: Associate researcher University of Chicago, Chicago, USA, 2007-2008: Visiting scholar University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA, 1998-1999: Associate researcher/Visiting Scholar University of Chicago, Chicago, USA, Fall 1994: Visiting scholar
PUBLICATIONS
Books
1. Angst in European Symbolism ed. with Luba Jurgenson and Marthe Sagrestin, CSP, 2018 (under the contract, in print at the publisher, forthcoming) 2. Mental Illness in Symbolist Art, ed. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017 (hard cover, eBook) 3. Light and Darkness in Symbolism ed. with Deborah Cibelli, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016 (hard cover, eBook) 4. Salome: The Image of a Woman Who Never Was, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013 (hardcover, eBook): a study of the image of Salome throughout history in art, literature, music and theology and the influence of the social ideology on this image and vice versa
- Russian translation, forthcoming (Moscow: Novoe Literaturnoe obozrenie, 2017) - French translation, forthcoming (Paris: Garnier, 2019)
5. Symbolism, Its Origins and Its Consequences, ed. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010 (hard cover, eBook) 6. Zinaida Vengerova: In Search of Beauty. A Literary Ambassador between East and West, Peter Lang, Heidelberg University Series, 2004; second edition 2006 (soft cover): an intellectual biography of Zinaida Vengerova, one of the first Russian Symbolist, a journalist, translator, art and literary critic and most importantly one of the propagators of Western European Symbolism (art, literature and music) in Russia and of Russian in Europe
Creative Writing Books of Poetry
• In the Garden of Luxembourg, Paris: Harmattan, 2015 (in English, French and Russian,
Rosina Neginsky 2 soft cover, eBook) • Juggler, New Orleans: University Press of the South, 2009 (in Russian and English, soft cover) • Under the Light of the Moon, New York: “Slovo-Word,” 2002 (in Russian and English, soft cover) • Dancing Over the Precipice, New York: Effect publishing house, 1997 (in Russian, soft cover)
Selected Creative Writing (Poetry and short stories publication in Anthologies)
• “Angel of Death,” a poem published in AIPF (Austen International Poetry Festival) anthology, Austen, 2016 • “Mrs Dalloway,” a poem published in Quiddity, 2009 • “Sky” (Nebo), short story published in the Anthology of Short Stories, Arena-3, 2009 • “Scream,” Anthology of White Oak Press, 2008 • “Spring” (Vesna), short story published in the Anthology of Short Stories, Arena-2, 2007 • “Yearning,” published in the Anthology Immortal Verses Series, USA, 2007 • “Unloved,” published in the Anthology Centres of Expression, England, London, 2007 • “A Parisian,” published in the Anthology of League of American Poets, 2007 • Two poems published in the Anthology The Best Poems and Poets of 2003 and 2004, International Library of Poets • Two poems published in the Anthology Love of Labor, Noble Publishing House, London, 2004 • "Selected poetry," Vstrechi, Philadelphia, 1992
Art Catalogs
• Catalog for the Art exhibit: Sergei Chepik: White Guard, Benedictine University Art Gallery, 2009 • Catalog for the Art exhibit. Alexandra Pregel: Search for Self, University of Illinois Art Gallery, 2006
Selected Articles
“Nikolai Roerich and Mikhail Vrubel: Two Giants of Russian Art,” in Slavica, ed. Dany Savely, 2018 (forthcoming)
“Debussy and Mallarmé,” in Claude Debussy - La trace et l'écart, ed. Jean-Pierre Armengaud, Editions Riveneuve/Archimbaud, Paris, France 2017 (in print)
“Odilon Redon: Angst as a New Visual Language,” Angst in European Symbolism, eds. Luba Jurgenson, Rosina Neginsky, Marthe Sagrestin, Newcastle upon Tyne: CSP, 2017 (in print)
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Russian Free Masons at the Time of Persecutions in 1930th in France,” Persecutions in France in 1930th, eds. Atinati Mamatsashvili, Luba Jurgenson, Paris: Revue des Etudes Slaves, 2017 (in print)
“The Art of Self-Translation,” in Translating Poetry, ed. Natalia Gamalova, Modernités russes, № 17, Lyon: University of Jean-Moulin, Lyon III, 2017
Inconscient et clandestinité : l’espression du ‘chaos’ soutterain dans la peinture de Vroubel, Clandestenité, ed. Françoise Lesourd, Paris : L’Harmattan, 2017 and in http://irphil.univ-lyon3.fr/accueil-philosophie/philosophie/recherche/publications/la-clandestinite- etudes-sur-la-pensee-russe-582181.kjsp?RH=1326705502535, 2011, pages 236-245
“Dance of Salome as a Form of Entertainment,” in Russian Entertainment Culture of Silver Age: 1908-1918, ed. Nora Bukhs, Moscow, Russia, 2017
“Introduction,” Mental Illnesses in Symbolism, Newcastle upon Tyne: CSP, 2017
“The Hidden World of the Unconscious: Expressions of Underground Chaos in the Work of Mikhail Vrubel,” in Mental Illness in Symbolism, Newcastle upon Tyne: CSP, 2017
“Introduction,” Light and Obscurity in Symbolism, Newcastle upon Tyne: CSP, 2016
“A Double Meaning of Beheadings: Gustave Moreau and Odilon Redon,” in Light and Obscurity in Symbolism, Newcastre upon Tyne: CSP, 2016
“The Influence of Plato on Early 20th century culture,” in Les Reflets de l’Antiquité grecques à l’Age d’argent, Modernités russes, N 15, ed. Natalia Gamalova, University of Jean-Moulin, Lyon III, 2015
“Zinaida Hippius and her concept of love,” in Zinaida Hippius, ed. Olga Blinova, University of Strasbourg, 2015
“Alexandra Pregel,” - Russian Artists in America, ed. Ernest Zalzberg, Canada, 2011, pp. 152-166
“Introduction,” Symbolism, Its Origins and Its Consequences (2010), Newcastle upon Tyne: CSP, 2010
“Mallarmé and Self-Portrait in Disguise,” Symbolism, Its Origins and Its Consequences, Newcastle upon Tyne: CSP, 2010
“L’amour chez Platon, Vl. Soloviev et les symbolistes russes,” La Raison, ed. Françoise Lesourd, Lyon, 2008
“Pourquoi Zinaida Vengerova perçoit Symbolism comme la fin-de-siècle reinterpretation de la Renaissance?” Lettres Modernes, Lyon, France, 2007
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Encyclopedia Articles
• Two articles: “Soviet Poster” (Sovetskii Plakat), “Soviet Pin” (Znachok), in Vita sovietica : dictionnaire-inventaire non-académique de la civilisation soviétique (Dictionary-Non Academic Inventory of the Soviet Civilization), ed. Andrei Lebedev, Moscow, August 2012 • “Bagritsky,” Dictionary of Literary Biography, 2010 • “Nekrasov,” Dictionary of Literary Biography, 2010 • “Angela Carter,” Dictionary of Literary Biography, DLB 319: British and Irish Short Fiction Writers, 1945- 2000, Bruccoli Clark Layman, Inc., 2005 • Fifteen Essays: Akhmatova, Tsvetaeva, Hippius, Blok, Briusov,Voloshin, Esenin, Maykovskii, Mandelshtam,Bergollets, Pasternak, Zabolotskii,Voznesenskii,Evtushenko,Vysotskii,Brodskii, The Routledge Who’s Who in Twentieth Century World Poetry, London, 2000 • "Ivan Kireevsky," Dictionary of Literary Biography, The Age of Pushkin and Gogol, Gale Research Inc. and Bruccoli Clark Layman, Inc. 1999 • "Peter Kireevsky," Dictionary of Literary Biography, The Age of Pushkin and Gogol, Gale Research Inc. and Bruccoli Clark Layman, Inc. 1999 • "Aleksey Khomiakov," Dictionary of Literary Biography, The Age of Pushkin and Gogol, Gale Research Inc. and Bruccoli Clark Layman, Inc. 1999 • "Zinaida Vengerova," Russian Women Writers, Garland Publishers, 1999 • “Cervantes,” 1998, Reference Guide to Short Fiction, St. James Press, Chicago, 1998 • Three articles: "Margarita Alliger," pages 18-20; "Tat'iana Goricheva," pages 221-22; "Tat'iana Velikanova," pages 697- 698, Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Women Writers, Greenwood Publishing Group Inc., Westport, 1994
Edited Texts accompanied by Articles
• An article on Zinaida Vengerova and publication with commentaries of her 1898 text/article "La femme russe" ("Russian Woman"), Lettres russes (LRS), N 19, pages 10- 16, 46-52, Paris, 1996
• An article on Zinaida Vengerova and publication of her previously unpublished 64 letters with my commentaries, Revue des Etudes Slaves, Institut des Etudes Slaves, Paris, LXVII/1, pages 187-236, LXVII/2-3, pages 457-516, LXVII/4, pages 693-748, 1995. This publication appeared in 4 issues of Revue des Etudes Slaves, published by CNRS (Centre National de Recherche Scientifique) and is of 145 pages in length.
• An article on Zinaida Hippius and publication of her previously unpublished letters with my commentaries, Russian Literature, Amsterdam, XXXVII-I January 1995, pages 49-91.
• An article on Dmitrii Merezhkovsky and publication of his previously unpublished letters
Rosina Neginsky 5 with my commentaries, Novoe literaturenoe obozrenie, Moscow, May, N 12, 1995, pages 109-117
Selected Book Reviews
Dina Mantcheva. La Dramaturgie symboliste de l’Ouest à l’Est européen. L’Harmattan, collection Univers théâtral, 2013, 350 pages, La Revue de littérature comparée, 2016
« Temps ressenti » et « Temps construit » dans les littératures russe et française au XXe siècle, sous la direction de Jean-Philippe Jaccard et Ioulia Podoroga, Éditions Kimé, Paris, 2013, 224 pages, Revue des Etudes Slaves, Fascicule 4, Paris, 2014, p. 860-862
Annick Morard. De L’Emigration au Déracinement.: La “Jeune Génération” des écrivains Russes Entre Identité. et Esthétique (Paris, 1920–1940). Lausanne, Switzerland: L’Age d’Homme, 2010. Bibliography, Slavic and East European Journal, Fall, 2015, issue 59.3
Revue des Etudes Slaves: Tome soixante-dix-neuvième (LXXIX), fascicule 3. Entre les genres. L'écriture de l'intime dans la littérature russe XIXe-XXe siècles. Paris: publiée par l'Institut d'études slaves et le Centre d'études slaves. Unité mixes de l'université Paris-Sorbonne et du Centre national de la recherche scientifique, 2008; Slavic and East European Journal, Summer, 2011
Le Dialogue des Arts dans le Symbolisme Russe, dossier dirigé par Jean-Claude Marcadé, La Revue des Etudes Slaves, Paris, 2010.
Lev Karsavine. Le poème de la mort. Translation, afterword (“postface”) and biographical sketch by FranHoise Lesourd. Editions l’Age d’Homme. Lausanne, Suisse, 2003, Slavic and East European Journal, submitted for the publication in 2006.
Sonia I. Ketchian, Keats and The Russian Poets, Slavic and East European Journal, 2003.
Irene Kolchinsky, The Revivle of the Russian Literary Avant-Garde: The Thaw Generation and Beyond, Slavic and East European Journal, 2003.
“Lilia Pann. Neskuchny sad: poety, prozaiki 80-e-90-e,” Slavic and East European Journal, Fall 2001
“Svetlana Dion. Ne dyshi bez menia: stikhotvoreniia (Don’t Breath without Me. Verse),” Slavic and East European Journal, Fall 2001
"Bronislava Nijinska, Early Memoirs, Translated and Edited by Irina Nijinska and Jean
Rosina Neginsky 6 Rawlinson. With an introduction by and in consultation with Anna Kisselgoff," Slavic and East European Journal, 39, January 1995.
"Milan Kundera and Feminism. Dangerous Intersections. John O'Brien," Slavic and East European Journal, January 1997.
"Ivan Bunin. From the Other Shore, 1920-1933. Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Thomas Gaiton Marullo," Slavic and East European Journal, January 1997.
“Five Filmmakers: Tarkovsky, Forman, Polanski, Szabo, Makavejev. Edited by Daniel J. Goulding,” Slavic and East European Journal, July 1998.
The List of other book reviews are available upon request
Translations
Rosina Neginsky, Salome: The Image of a Woman Who Never Was, for the publication by Garnier (University of Paris IV) Press, Paris, (to be published in 2019, from English into French)
Nora Bukhs, “Nabokov I psychiatria: Sluchai Luzhina,” into “Nabokov and Psychiatry: The Case of Luzhin,” in Mental Illnesses in Symbolism, CSP, 2017 (from Russian into English)
Olga Skonechnaya, “Le discours paranoidal russe” into “Russian Paranoid Discourse,” Mental Illnesses in Symbolism, CSP, 2017 (from French into English)
Rosina Neginsky, “Inconscient et clandestinité : l’espression du ‘chaos’ soutterain dans la peinture de Vroubel» into “The Hidden World of the Unconscious: Expressions of Underground Chaos in the Work of Mikhail Vrubel,” Mental Illness in Symbolism, Newcastle upon Tyne: CSP, 2017 (from French into English)
Rosina Neginsky, “In the Garden of Luxembourg,” “Island” in the collection of poetry In the Garden of Luxembourg, Paris: L’Harmattan, 2015 (two poems from English into French)
Rosina Neginsky, Juggler, New Orleans: University Press of the South, 2009 (a poetry translation from Russian into English)
Zinaida Vengerova, “Feminism I zhenskaya svoboda” into “Feminism and Women's Freedom,” 2000, Russian Women Writers (from Russian into English)
WORK IN PROGRESS
• “Mikhail Vrubel’s Sculpture” (an article) • Mikhail Vrubel in the Western European Context (book) • “Salome in Richard Strauss’s correspondence,” A Man of Letters and Music, University of Florence, Florence, Italy, February 2018 (conference presentation)
Rosina Neginsky 7 • Salome: The Image of a Woman Who Never Was (translation from English into French) • Black Madonna (novel) • A new collection of poetry
SELECTED PRESENTATIONS AT THE CONFERENCES BY INVITATION
• Salome in Richard Strauss’s correspondence with Roman Rollan, A Man of Letters and Music, University of Florence, Florence, Italy, February 2018 • The Sculpture of Mikhail Vrubel in the West European Context, The Link of Times: History of Art in the Context of Symbolism, Russian Academy of Art, Moscow, Russia, November 2017
• Art, Jealousy and Passion: Mozart and Salieri, Composer in Literature, University Paris-Sorbonne, Paris, France, December 2016
• Russian Free Masons in France Between Two Wars, Persecutions between Two Wars, University Paris-Sorbonne, Paris, France, February 2016
• Odilon Redon: Angst and a New Visual Language, Angst in European Symbolism, University Paris-Sorbonne, Paris, France, June 2015
• The Art of Self Translation: Juggler and In The Garden of Luxembourg, Poetry translation, University of Jean Moulin, Lyon III, France, May 2015
• Redon and Charcot: Unconscious in Art, College Art Association, New York, USA, February 2015
• Dance of Salome as a Form of Entertainment, International Conference on Entertainment in Silver Age, Paris-Sorbonne, Paris, France, November 2013
• Aubrey Berdsley’s Illustrations for Oscar Wilde’s play “Salome,” International Conference on Comparative Literature, University of Paris IV, July 2013
• A Double Meaning of Beheadings in Gustave Moreau and Odilon Redon, College Art Association, New York, February, 2013
• Greek Influence on Russian Symbolism, Classicism in the turn of the century culture, Lyon, February, 2013
• Zinaida Hippius’ Perception of Love, Conference on Hippius, Strasbourg, December, 2012
• Mallarmé and Debussy, International Conference on Debussy, Paris, France, December 2012
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• “Salome” between Oscar Wilde and Aubrey Beardsley, Symbolism, Its Origins and Consequences: Light and Dark, University of Illinois, Allerton Conference and Retreat Center, Monticello, Il, April 2012
• The Image of Salome in Art in the 19th and 20th Centuries as a Symbol of Social Ideology, The European Union the Policicization of Europe, Vienna, Austria, December 2011
• Dmitri Shostakovich and his opera The Nose, Conference on Shostakovich, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, February 2011
• Michael Vrubel: Literature and Art, College Art Association, Chicago, IL, February 2010
• Michael Vrubel: Between Dante-Gabriel Rossetti and Gustave Moreau, International conference on Comparative Literature and Aesthetics, University of Aix-en-Provence, France, October 2009
• Michael Vrubel and Clandestine World, International conference on Clandestinity, Lyon, France, October 2009
• Mallarmé and Self-Portrait in Disguise, International Conference: Symbolism, Its Origins and Its Consequences, University of Illinois, April 2009
• The Image of Salome/Herodiade as a Self-Portrait, “Symbolist Movement in Europe: The Aesthetics of Arrival,” American Association of Comparative Literature, Princeton, UIS, April 2008
• La raison de Platon chez Vl. Soloviev et les symbolistes russes (Plato’s Reason in Works of Vl. Soloviev and Russian Symbolists), La Raison (The Reason), Colloque international (International Conference), department of Philosophy and Modern Languages and Literatures, Lyon, France, November 2007
• The Occult in the Gustave Meyrink’s Novels The Angel of the West Window and The Golem and their Influence on Michael Bulgakov’s Novel The Master and Margarita, “European Symbolism and Its Manifestations in the Russian Literature Written under the Soviet Regime,” American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, New Orleans, November 2007
• Occult in the novel of Gustave Meyrink, The Angel of the West Window, “Word, Image, and Ideology in Hapsburg Europe,” Denver, October 2006.
• Pourquoi Zinaida Vengerova perçoit Symbolisme comme fin-de-siècle reinterpretation de la Renaissance?, Colloque Internationale (International conference), l’Age d’argent,
Rosina Neginsky 9 l’UniversitJ de Lyon III, juin 2006
• The Works of Art in Flaubert’s “Herodias,” Illinois Philological Association, Chicago, April, 2006.
• Recapturing the Works of Gustave Moreau in Mallarme’s Herodiade, American Comparative Literature Association, Princeton, March, 2006.
• “Ekphrasis of Salome’s Dance in Flaubert’s ‘HJrodias,’” International conference, Ekphrasis in the Age of Cervantes, University of Chicago’s Paris Center supported by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Paris, France, November 2, 2004
• Oscar Wilde’s “Salome,” IPA, April, 2004
• “Teaching Literature online,” Midwest Modern Languages Association, Saint Louis, USA, November, 2004
• “Different Faces of Salome,” UNIVERSITAT SALZBURG, Tale; Novella; Short Story: Currents in Short Fiction, November 2001
• “Salome: The Creation of the Myth,”SCLA Conference, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, September 2001
• “Teaching Literature online,” AATSEEL, Washington, December 1998
• “Between F. Nietzsche and Vl. Soloviev: Zinaida Hippius’ Vision of Love in her Poetry and Prose,” The Netherlands, September 1998
• “Zinaida Vengerova: The Voice of Russian Symbolism in France, in Mercure de France,” AATSEEL, Toronto, December 1997
• "Why did Vladimir Soloviev defend Jews?" AATSEEL, Chicago, December 1995
• "Homme-dieu et surhomme selon Fedor DostoVevski et Vladimir Soloviev," (Man- God and Superman in F. Dostoevsky's an Soloviev's perception) Vl. Soloviev's Society, Paris, November 1995.
• "Is Life a Form of Art? The Period of Russian Symbolism Presented Through the Correspondence of Zinaida Vengerova," (invited), V World Congress for Central and East European Studies, Warsaw, August 1995
• "Philosophical Essence of Zinaida Vengerova's Works," AATSEEL, San Diego, December 1994
• "The Influence of Nietzsche and Soloviev on the Notion of Personality in Hippius' and
Rosina Neginsky 10 Sologub's Works," public lecture, University of Chicago, Chicago, February 1994
• "The Notion of Personality and its Role in the Perception and Works Influencing Russian Symbolism: V. Soloviev and F. Nietzsche," AATSEEL, Toronto, December 1993
• "The Influence of Nietzsche and Soloviev on the Russian Symbolist Movement," AATSEEL, New York, December 1992
• "Kant's Influence on Bakhtin's Early Writings," (invited), AAASS, Phoenix, November 1992
• "The Concept of God-man and man-God in Dostoevski's and Soloviev's works," AATSEEL, San-Francisco, December 1991
• "The Influence of Vl. Soloviev on Philosophical Views of Zinaida Vengerova." AATSEEL, Chicago, December 1990
• "Zinaida Vengerova and French Symbolism," AAASS, Washington, DC, October 1990
• "World Spirit and the Human Soul in the Poetry of Vladimir Soloviev," International Conference of Slavists, Harrogate, England, July 1990
• "Philosophical and theological Motifs in Tamizdat: Simvol (Paris),"AATSEEL, Washington, DC, December 1988
• "The Interpretation of Art in the Works of Zinaida Vengerova," Midwest Slavic Conference. Bloomington, Indiana, March 1988
• "The Ego of Marina Tsvetaeva in Conflict with the Reader's Ego," AAASS, Honolulu, Hawaii, November 1988.
ACADEMIC LECTURES (invited speaker)
• Michail Vrubel and Symbolism, Sabbatical presentation, University of Illinois at Springfield, March 2017 • Michail Vrubel In the Context of Western European Symbolism, University of Paris- Sorbonne, June 2016 • Zinaida Vengerova’s Views of Leo Tolstoy, Ecole des Hautes Etudes, Paris, 2016 • Salome in Art (11 lectures), University of Paris IV-Sorbonne (Comparative Literature department), 2015 • Salome in Russian Culture, University of Paris IV-Sorbonne (Russian and East European studies), 2016
Rosina Neginsky 11 • Salome and John the Baptist, University of Illinois at Springfield, Brown Bag, Fall 2014 • Salome in Art and Literature, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Russian and East European Center, October 2013 • The Image of Salome in European culture, lecture at the Philosophical Seminar at the Institute des Hautes Etudes, Paris, France, June 2013 • Six lectures on French Literature Between Two Wars, Newberry Library, Spring, 2013 • Salome's dance in Flaubert's “Herodias, Modern Art Colloquial, Department of Art History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, October 2008 • Vladimir Soloviev and Literary Salons, lecture at the Philosophical Seminar at the Institute des Hautes Etudes, Paris, France, April 2007
Selected Book Presentations, Signing, Interviews, Poetry Readings
• 18 June 2016, Poetry reading from In The Garden of Luxembourg and new poems, l’Harmattan’s bookstore, Paris, France • May 2015, Reading from my forthcoming novel, Hyde Park Players, Chicago, Illinois • April 2013, Poetry reading, Hyde Park Players, Chicago, Illinois • April 2013, Poetry reading from my poetry book In the Garden of Luxembourg, State Library, Springfield, IL • June 2013, Librairie du Globe, Paris, France. • April 2011, Poetry reading, Univesity of Chicago Faculty club, Chicago, Illinois. • October 2010, the same as below, Paris, France. • October 2010, Poetry reading from Juggler, University of Chicago book store, Chicago, Illinois. • April 2010, Poetry reading from Juggler, at the Society of Midland Authors event, Chicago, Illinois. • March 2010, Poetry reading from Juggler, Barnes and Noble, Chicago, Illinois • November 2009, Poetry reading from Juggler, State Library, Skokie, Illinois • October 2009, Poetry reading from Juggler, La maison du livre russe, Paris, France • April 2009, Poetry reading from my book of poetry, Juggler. State Library, Springfield, IL • December 2006, NPR, interview about the exhibit “Alexandra Pregel: Search for Self” • April 2005, Radio program on WILL, interview with Celeste Quin on the Afternoon Magazine • April 2005, Radio program in Springfield, interview • April 2005, University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, Urbana, Illinois • March 2005, “Works in Progress,” TV program, channel 4, Springfield, Illinois • March 2005, University of Illinois at Springfield, Springfield, Illinois • March 2005, Illinois Book Fair, Springfield, Illinois • February 2004, Illinois Union Book store, Champaign, Illinois • April 2003, Barnes and Noble, Springfield, Illinois • March 2003, University of Illinois at Springfield, Springfield, Illinois • Poetry Reading, MLA-AATSEEL, December 2000, Washington DC
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SELECTED PUBLIC LECTURES
Art Associations
I am a regular guest lecturer at the Art Association in Springfield and similar other local institutions: • Lecture on Salome, (Fall, 2004) • Nicolas de Stael (Spring, 2005) • Eleonore Fini (Spring, 2005) • Nicolas Roerich (Spring, 2006) • Gustave Moreau (Spring, 2006) • Chaim Soutine (March, 2008) • Za Woo ki and Abstract Art (October 2008) • Michael Vrubel (Taylorville Art Association, November 2009) • Michael Vrubel (February 2010) • Rogier Van der Weyden (February 2011) • Odilon Redon (February 2012) • Leonardo da Vinci (November 2013) • Bernardino Luini (2014) • Avant-Garde Sculpture fin- de- siècle (March 2017)
Other Lectures
• Taste of UIS: on Zinaida Vengerova: In Search for Beauty. A Literary Ambassador between East and West, April 2007 • Lecture at the Sangamon Club in Literary Series on Zinaida Vengerova: In Search for Beauty. A Literary Ambassador between East and West, April 2007 • Dancing Salome and John the Baptist in Art and Literature, Sangamon Club, Spring 2015
Gallery Talks
UIS Art Gallery: a lecture on Alexandra Pregel, “Alexandra Pregel: Search for Self,” UIS Art Gallery, December 2005 UIS Art Gallery: a lecture on Sergei Chepik, October 2009 Springfield College: a lecture on Sergei Chepik, November 2009 Illinois State Library: a lecture on Sergei Chepik, November 2009 Springfield Art Association: a lecture on Vasily Miazyn, September 2012
Rosina Neginsky 13 Springfield Art Association: a lecture on Liubov’ Momot, September 2017
SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION
• Poetry judge for the Society of Midland Authors, 2017
• Chair of an Advisory committee on Art History at Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016 – present
• Founder and editor in chief of the series Art, Literature and Music in Symbolism and Decadence, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012 – present
• An initiator of the successful exchange between the University of Illinois and Ecole du Louvre, Paris, France, 2009-2014 • A member of the Board of Directors at the Society of Midland Authors, 2007-2015
• Founder and the president of the international and interdisciplinary organization Art, Literature, Music in Symbolism and Decadence (ALMSD), Summer 2010 - Present http://www.uis.edu/hosted-orgs/ALMSD/conferences/2009/index.html
• Founder and chair of a Springfield based group Kindred Spirits that shares research and writing, 2005-2008; 2010-16 • Poetry judge for Illinois State Library, 2006-2010
• Chair of Liberal and Integrative Studies department, 2006-2007
• Founder and chair of a European Film Festival at UIS which was at the origin of the International Film Series that is now a regular event at UIS, Fall 2002, 2003, 2004.
• Director of the computer language lab, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, 1999-2000
• Manager of Grigorieff and Tchernycheva Archive (Sergei Diagileff’s archives): cataloged and negotiated the sale of this archive to Harvard University. Serge Grigorieff was the manager and administrator of the Diagileff Ballet from 1909 to 1929; the manager and administrator of the de Basil Ballet Russe; and administrator and regisseur of Covent Garden Ballet. His wife, Liubov Tchernycheva, was a prima ballerina in these three companies, 1994
Conferences Organized and Chaired
Rosina Neginsky 14 • Co-organizer/co-chair of three-day international conference, “A Man of Letters in Music,” University of Florence, February 2018 • Co-organizer/co-chair of a three-day international conference, “Composer in Literature,” University of Paris-Sorbonne, December 2016 • Co-organizer/co-chair of a three-day international interdisciplinary conference, “Angst in European Symbolism,” University of Paris-Sorbonne, June 2015 • Conceiver, organizer and chair of the international interdisciplinary conference, “Symbolism, Its Origins and Its Consequences,” the theme Light and Darkness, April 25- April 28, 2012: http://www.uis.edu/hosted-orgs/conferences/symbolism/conference.html, 50 presenters. • Conceiver, organizer and chair of the international interdisciplinary conference “Symbolism, Its Origins and Its Consequences,” April 22-April 25, 2009 http://www.uis.edu/hosted-orgs/conferences/symbolism/presenters.html, 50 presenters
Panels Organized and Chaired
• College Art Association (ALMSD), Beyond Nineteenth-Century Illustration: Illustration or Inspiration?, February 2017 • American Association of Comparative Literature, Mental Illness and Symbolist Movement, Seattle, April 2015 • College Art Association (ALMSD), Dreams in Symbolist Art, Chicago, February 2014 • International Comparative Literature Association, Mental Illnesses in Art and Literature of Symbolist Movement, University of Paris, France, July 2013 (organizer of three panels) • College Art Association (ALMSD), Symbolism and Its Origins: Dreams in Symbolist Movement, New York, February 2013 • College Art Association (ALMSD), Symbolism and Its Origins, New York, February, 2012 • College Art Association (ALMSD), Symbolism: New Ideas, New Research, Chicago, February 2010 • Symbolist Movement in Europe: The Aesthetics of Arrival, American Association of Comparative Literature, April 2008 • European Symbolism and Its Manifestations in the Russian Literature Written Under the Soviet Regime Symbolist Movement in Europe, American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, New York, November 2007 • Russian Philosophy and Modernism, AATSEEL, New York, December 1995 • Russian Philosophy and Modernism, AATSEEL, Chicago, December 1992
Curatorial Experience
• Conceiver, organizer and curator of the Art Exhibit: Lyubov Momot, Springfield Art Association, September 2017 • Conceiver, organizer and curator of the Art Exhibit: Vasily Myazyn, Springfield Art Association, September 2011
Rosina Neginsky 15 • Conceiver, organizer and curator of the Art Exhibit that took place in three locations in Springfield, IL: Sergei Chepik and Michael Bulgakov's novel White Guard, University of Illinois at Springfield Art Gallery, Springfield College, Springfield State Library, Fall 2008 • Conceiver and curator of the Art Exhibit: Alexandra Pregel: Search for Self, University of Illinois at Springfield Art Gallery, 2005-2006
SERVICE TO THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT SPRINGFIELD
Senator, 2014-present Schewe Professorship committee (CLAS), 2017 Research Board, 2012-2015, 2003-2005 CLASS Strategic Planning Committee, 2010-2012 Curriculum Committee (CLAS), 2005-2009
Services to different departments/programs
Visual Arts, Program Committee, 2016-present Art, Music, Theater, Department Committee, 2016-present LIS/INO/LNT, Program Committee, 2000-present English, Program Committee, 2001-2011
Search Committees
Chair of a Search Committee, LIS/INO, which resulted in hiring Eric Hadley-Ives (2005) Since tenure I was on Search Committees for Visual Arts, which resulted in hiring Jeff Robertson, Shane Harris I was on Search Committee for Theater, which resulted in hiring Eric Thibodeaux-Thompson I was on Search Committee for Philosophy, which resulted in hiring John Barker I was on Search Committee for the Modern Language Instructor who came after departure of a Spanish Associate Professor) I was on three search committees for Graduate Assistant, LIS/LNT/INO
Personnel Committees
I was on Personnel Committees for LIS/LNT/INO, English and Visual Arts
Other committees since tenure
Assessment liaison between LIS/INO and the University Modern Language Advisory Committee Philosophy Advisory Committee Online Screening Committee for Admissions to English Online Degree
A more detailed list can be provided upon request.
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SELECTED RESEARCH AWARDS, SCHOLARSHIPS and HONORS
Awards
Recipient of Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award, Marquis Who’s Who Biographee, 2017
Recipient of the University Scholars' Award, University of Illinois, 2008
Grants
• Recipient of a Writers’ Residency Fellowship, Monastère de Saorge, France, July 2016 • Recipient of the conference grant from the University of Illinois Vice President Office for the International Symposium Angst in European Symbolism, University of Illinois- University of Paris IV-Sorbonne cooperation, 2015 • Recipient of NEH grant, Summer Institute on Leonardo da Vinci, Florence, 2012 • Recipient of the conference grant from the University of Illinois Vice President Office for the International Symposium on “The Symbolist Movement: Its Origins and Its Consequences,” the University of Illinois Conference Center, Allerton Park, April, 2012 • Recipient of The Strategic Academic Initiatives Grant from the University of Illinois at Springfield to organize the International Symposium on “The Symbolist Movement: Its Origins and Its Consequences,” the University of Illinois Conference Center, Allerton Park, April, 2012 • Recipient of a private grant to organize the International Symposium on “The Symbolist Movement: Its Origins and Its Consequences,” the University of Illinois Conference Center, Allerton Park, April, 2012 • Recipient of the Chancellor’s Fund to subsidize partially the preparation of the volume Symbolism, Its Origins and Its Consequences for publication, 2010 • Recipient of The Strategic Academic Initiatives Grant from UIS to organize the International Symposium on “The Symbolist Movement: Its Origins and Its Consequences,” University of Illinois Conference Center, Allerton Park, 2009 • Recipient of the University summer research grant, 2008, University of Illinois at Springfield • Recipient of NEH grant, Summer Seminar on Ekphrasis, University of Chicago, Summer 2003. (Five other grants can be listed upon request)
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2005 – present: Scholarly Presentation Support Travel Grant annually, UIS 2016: Chancellor’s Educational Allowance for International Travel, UIS 2015: Chancellor’s Educational Allowance for International Travel, UIS 2013: Chancellor’s Educational Allowance for International Travel, UIS 2012: Chancellor’s Educational Allowance for International Travel, UIS 2011: Chancellor’s Educational Allowance for International Travel, UIS 2009: Chancellor’s Educational Allowance for International Travel, UIS The list of earlier grants (IREX, other institutions) can be provided upon request.
HONORS
Included in Who is Who in America, 2007, 2008, 2010 Included in Who’s Who in America’s Best Teachers in 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2010 Included in The International Who's Who in Poetry, 2005, 2006, 2007
LANGUAGES
I am completely fluent in languages such as English, French and Russian and have a reading knowledge of Italian, German and Latin.
MEMBERSHIPS IN LEARNED AND PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
Society of Midland Authors, College Art Association, American Association of Comparative Literature, French Association of Comparative Literature, Art Institute of Chicago, ALMSD (Art, Literature and Music in Symbolism and Decadence), Musée du Louvre
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