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Rosina NeginskyRosina Neginsky
Associate Professor, Liberal Studies/Individual Option, Women’s Studies, English
Director, Individual Option Program
Ph.D. English, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Email: rnegi1@uis.edu
Phone: (217) 206-7431
Office: UHB 3027

Teaching Concentration: European literature (English Pre-Raphaelites; French and Russian Symbolists), 1850-1920; contemporary French literature. Courses: Ancient Greek and Biblical Motifs in European Literature, 1880-Present; Dostoevsky; European Cinema; International Women Writers; Major Women Writers; Symbolist Movement in Europe.

Courses: Ancient Greek and Biblical Motifs in European Literature, 1880-Present, Dostoevsky, European Cinema, International Women Writers, Major Women Writers, Symbolist Movement in Europe.

Presentations:

  • "Methods in Teaching Literature online," Modern Language Association

  • "Ekphrasis in the Age of Cervantes: Ekphrasis in Flaubert's Short Stories," International Literary Symposiums in Paris

  • "Recapturing Works of Art in Mallarme's Herodiade," Princetom University
  • "Artistic References in Flaubert’s Short Story, 'Herodias,'" Illinois Philological Association

Publications:

  • Poetry, Under the Light of the Moon and Dancing Over the Precipice
  • Zinaida Vengerova In Search of Beauty: A Literary Ambassador between East and West (University of Heidelberg series, Peter Lang)
  • Dictionary of Literary Biography
  • Rutledge Who’s Who in Twentieth Century World Poetry
  • Reference Guide of Short Fiction

Dr. Neginsky is also the recipient of a number of awards from NEH and IREX.


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