Rosina Neginsky: Bio

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

• Mikhail Vrubel: Philosophical Images (in progress)

• 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 and edition, Moscow: Novoe Literaturnoe obozrenie, 2018 (hardcover, eBook)
– French translation, forthcoming (Paris: Garnier, 2022)

• 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 Russians in Europe

Edited books

• Anxiety, Angst, Anguish in Fin de Siècle Art and Literature, eds. Rosina Neginsky, Marthe 35 Segrestin, Luba Jurgenson, New Castle Upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2020 (hard cover, eBook)
• Mental Illness in Symbolism Art, ed. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017 (hard cover, eBook)
• Light and Darkness in Symbolism ed. with Deborah Cibelli, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016 (hard cover, eBook)
• Symbolism, Its Origins and Its Consequences ed. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010 (hard cover, eBook)

Creative Writing Books of Poetry

• Longings with an Introduction by Ethan Lewis (Professor in English at UIS), forthcoming, November 2021 (CD, eBook, hard copy)
• In the Garden of Luxembourg with an Introduction by Isabelle Genin (Professor at the University of Paris III), Paris: Harmattan, 2015 (in English, French and Russian, soft cover, eBook)
• Juggler with an Introduction by Ethan Lewis (Professor at the University of Illinois), 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 published in Anthologies and literary magazines)

• “Please do not say”, a poem published in The Halcyone Literary Review, Black Mountain Press, vol. 3, number 3, Fall 2020
• “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

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

• “Vrubel and Philosophy”, Les concepts en déplacement : littérature russe face à la philosophie et sciences sociales, eds : I. Podoroga, L : Jurgenson, forthcoming in Spring 2021 (in French)

• “The Opera Salome in Richard Strauss” and Romain Rolland’s Correspondence,” Figures musicales de l’écrivain, eds. Marthe Sagrestin and Stéphane Lefevre, Comparatiste en Sorbonne, forthcoming in Fall 2021 (in French)

• “Antonio Salieri in Amadeus by Peter Shaffer”, Figures littéraires du compositeur, Paris : Comparatiste in Sorbonne, eds. Marthe Sagrestin and Stéphane Lefevre, Comparatiste en Sorbonne, forthcoming in Fall 2021 (in French)

• “Le langage visuel dans la peinture symboliste de Lyubov Momot: un dialogue avec la poésie contemporaine” (The Visual Language in Lyubov Momot’s Symbolist Painting : a Dialog with the Contemporary Poetry), Modernités Russes, Numéros en texte intégral 19 : L’Age d’or et l’Age d’argent de la littérature russe, Université Jean Moulin, Lyon III; publications-prairial.fr, 2020 (in French)

• “Mikhail Vrubel’s Sculpture in West European Context”, Link of Times: Art History in the Symbolist Context, ed. Olga Davydova, Moscow: Buks Mart, 2020, pages 158-180 (in Russian)

• “Odilon Redon: Angst as a New Visual Language,” Angst in European Symbolism, eds. Rosina Neginsky, Marthe Sagrestin, Luba Jurgenson, Newcastle upon Tyne: CSP, 2020, pages 330-345 (in English)

• “Introduction” to Angst in European Symbolism, co-wrote with Luba Jurgenson and Marthe Sagrestin; translated from French into English, Angst in European Symbolism, eds. Rosina Neginsky, Marthe Sagrestin, Luba Jurgenson, Newcastle upon Tyne: CSP, 2020, pages 330-345 (in English)

• “Debussy and Mallarmé,” in Claude Debussy – La trace et l’écart, ed. Jean-Pierre Armengaud, Editions Riveneuve/Archimbaud, Paris, France 2018

• “Art of Self-Translation,” in Translating Poetry, ed. Natalia Gamalova, Modernités russes, № 17, Lyon: University of Jean-Moulin, Lyon III, 2018

• “Dance as a Form of Entertainment: Herod’s Banquet and Salome’s Dance in Russian Culture of Silver Age”, Russian Culture of Enterainment in Silver Age 1908-1918, ed. Nora Buks, Moscow: Dom vysshei shkoly ekonomiki, 2017, pages 206-221 (in Russian)

• “The Hidden World of the Unconscious: Expressions of Underground Chaos in the Work of Mikhail Vrubel”, in Mental Illness in Symbolism (translated from French publication by Rosina Neginsky), ed. Rosina Neginsky, Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017

• “Inconscient and Clandestinite: L’Expression du ‘Chaos’ Souterrain dans la peinture de Vroubel,” (“The Hidden World of the Unconscious: Expressions of Underground Chaos in the Work of Mikhail Vrubel,”) in La Clandestenité, ed. Françoise Lesourd, Paris: L’Harmattan, 2017 et in irphil.univ-lyon3.fr, 2011, pages 236-245

• “Introduction” Mental Illnesses 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

Edited Texts accompanied by my 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 with my commentaries, Novoe literaturenoe obozrenie, Moscow, May, N 12, 1995, pages 109-117