Nikos Erinakis

Nikos Erinakis (Athens, 1988) holds a PhD in Philosophy from the Universities of London and Oxford, having studied Economics (Athens University of Economics and Business), Philosophy & Comparative Literature (Warwick), and Philosophy of Social Sciences (LSE). He has periodically taught Political & Social Philosophy, Aesthetics & Philosophy of Art, and Ethics in England, and is currently a Philosophy Lecturer at the University of Athens, the Athens School of Fine Arts, and the Hellenic Open University. He also serves as the Scientific Director at the think-tank ENA, was a board member of the Athens and Epidaurus Festival, and is a board member of the Greek Youth Symphony Orchestra. He has published two poetry books ("Soon Everything Will Be Burning and Will Light Up Your Eyes," Roés, 2009 and "Among Those on Which the Shadow Falls," Gavriilidis, 2013) and has translated two collections of poems by Georg Trakl ("Dark Love of a Wild Generation," Gavriilidis, 2011) and Paul Celan ("North of the Future," Gavriilidis, 2017). His essays, articles, and poems have been published in various print and online journals, included in Greek and foreign collective volumes, anthologies, and peer-reviewed conference proceedings, and have been translated into six languages. In 2018, the translation of his second poetry book was released in a bilingual edition in France by Desmos Editions.