Simos Zenios
BA: Greek Philology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece, 2004
MA: General and Comparative Literature, The University of Edinburgh, 2007
PhD: Comparative Literature, Harvard University, 2018
Peter V. Tsantes Endowed Assistant Professor in Hellenic Studies
2126 Humanities Building
simos.zenios@stonybrook.edu
Simos Zenios studied Greek Philology at the University of Athens and General and Comparative Literature at the University of Edinburgh before obtaining his Ph. D. in Comparative Literature at Harvard University. Before joining Stony Brook University as Peter V. Tsantes Endowed Assistant Professor in Hellenic Studies in 2024, he worked at UCLA as a lecturer in Modern Greek and as Associate Director of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center for Hellenic Studies. His research interests include the intersection between literature and intellectual history in European Enlightenment and Romanticism, literary and critical theory, and classical receptions. He has published on such topics as the literature of the Greek Revolution, philhellenism and imperialism, Enlightenment rhetoric, Greek modernism, and early modern Cypriot lyric poetry.