Rosina Neginsky is an Association Professor of English (Comparative Literature) and Interdisciplinary Studies, and an affiliated art history faculty. Her area of specialization is French, Russian and English art and literature between 1850-1920. She is the author of the book, Zinaida Vengerova: In Search of Beauty. A Literary Ambassodor between East and West, published by Peter Lang, University of Heidelberg serie, 2004, second ed. 2006. She is in the process of completing a new book, Salome: An Image of a Woman Who Never Was. She is particulary interested in pictorial and ekhratic representations in literature in the second part of the 19th century. She is an author of three books of poetry, Dancing Over the Precipice, Under the Light of the Moon, and of the forthcoming book, Juggler. In 2005-2006, she was also a curator of the art exhibit, Alexandra Pregel: Search for Self. She is also an author of numerous articles on Russian and European writers and poets. She teaches courses such as Symbolist Movement in Europe, Expatriate Paris, European Cinema, Literary Heroines.

The conference is co-sponsored by the Strategic Initiative Grant from the Provost Office, Information Technology Services, the Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and by the Visual Arts Department.

My special thanks go to the Associate Provost for Technology, Farohk Eslahi, and his excellent Information Technology Services team.

(Rosina Neginsky)

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