Simos Zeniou holds a BA in Greek Philology from the National Kapodistrian University of Athens and an MSc in General and Comparative Literature from the University of Edinburgh. He is a PhD candidate at the Department of Comparative Literature at Harvard University. His dissertation examines the relationship between literature and political violence in the first half of the Greek 19th century.

His presentation is entitled «Μήνιν άειδε θε ν'ακούσης να σου ψάλλη μία φωνή»: Voice and violence in the early work of Dionysios Solomos and will be in English.