Nikitas Siniosoglou

Nikitas Siniosoglou was born in Athens. He studied Philosophy at the Universities of Athens, Munich, and Cambridge (PhD). He served as a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Cambridge (2008-2011) and a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow at King's College London (2011-2013). He is a research fellow at the National Hellenic Research Foundation (Institute of Historical Research) and has taught at Greek and British universities. He has published the books: "Plato and Theodoret: The Christian Appropriation of Platonic Philosophy and the Hellenic Intellectual Resistance" (Cambridge University Press 2008), "Radical Platonism in Byzantium: Illumination and Utopia in Gemistos Plethon" (Cambridge University Press 2011), "Strange Hellenism: An Essay on the Marginal Experience of Ideas" (Kichli 2016, Essay Prize of the magazine O Anagnostis 2017), "Black Testaments: An Essay on the Limits of Diary Writing" (Kichli 2018). His essays and narrative texts have been published in journals such as Athens Review of Books, Poetics, Nea Estia, Deucalion, Mandragoras, Odos Panos, and (de)kata. He writes about urban wandering and the boundaries of essayistic and literary discourse.