Rosina Neginsky teaches Comparative Literature and Art History at the University of Illinois at Springfield. She is the author of Zinaida Vengerova: In Search of Beauty. A Literary Ambassador between East and West (2004, 2006) and Salome: The Image of a Woman Who Never Was (2013), of numerous articles on Russian and European artists, poets and writers, and of several books of poetry, of which the most recent is In the Garden of Luxembourg (2015). She is the president and founder of the international interdisciplinary organization Art, Literature, Music in Symbolism and Decadence (ALMSD), and the editor of the volume Symbolism, Its Origins and Its Consequences. She has received several awards from the National Endowment for Humanities and IREX, and is a 2008 recipient of the University Scholar Award, the most prestigious award which the University of Illinois gives to members of its faculty.Deborah Cibelli is Professor of Art and Art History at Nicholls State University, and a specialist on the art and architecture of the Italian Renaissance. She also studies the impact of the Italian Renaissance on Symbolist artists.