Biographical:

Pantelis Voutouris is Professor Emeritus of Modern Greek Literature at the University of Cyprus, Academic Director of the Petrondas Modern Greek Studies Institute at the University of Cyprus, President of the Board of Directors of the Cyprus Theatre Organization, and Honorary Member of the Hellenic Writers' Association. He studied Medieval and Modern Greek Literature at the Faculty of Philosophy of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, where he submitted his doctoral thesis under the supervision of Professor Dimitris Maronitis. He taught Modern Greek Literature at the Department of Philology of the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Crete and at the Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies of the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Cyprus. He also taught as a Visiting Professor at King's College, University of London, at the Academy of Barcelona, at the Center for Byzantine Modern Greek and Cypriot Studies at the University of Granada, and at the Department of Greek and Latin Philology at the University of Rome La Sapienza.

He has published 13 books and more than a hundred studies on literature, criticism and the history of ideas in Greece. His book Ideas of Cruelty and Kindness. Nationalism, Socialism, Racism (1897-1922), Kastaniotis 2017, was awarded the first Reader's Essay Prize and the first State Prize in the study-essay category of the Ministry of Education and Culture of Cyprus. His most recent book Somewhere in Cyprus in the Prefecture of Preveza. An Introduction to the Poetics of Costas Montis, Erato 2024, was also awarded the first State Prize in the study-essay category of the Ministry of Education and Culture of Cyprus.

George Georgis. Historian and Diplomat. Born in Paralimni in 1948. Graduate of the Greek Gymnasium of Famagusta. Graduate and doctor of the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Athens. He taught as an associate professor and as a professor at the University of Cyprus and at the Neapolis University of Paphos. Educational Attaché for 15 years in Athens and Ambassador of Cyprus to Greece from 2005 to 2010. Founder and first Director of the Cyprus House. His research and writing work covers Modern Cypriot and Greek History and focuses on the period of the British Occupation in Cyprus, the work of Governor Kapodistrias and the Diplomat Seferis. He is the publisher of the magazine Ιδέλτος.

Marinos Pourgouris is Associate Professor of Literary Theory and Modern Greek Studies in the Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, University of Cyprus, and Academic Director of the Petrondas Modern Greek Study Center, University of Cyprus. He has taught in the Departments of Comparative Literature and the Modern Greek Studies Programs of Brown and Rutgers Universities in the United States. He is the author of Mediterranean Modernisms: The Poetic Metaphysics of Odysseus Elytis (Ashgate 2001 / Routledge 2016) and The Cyprus Frenzy of 1878 and the British Press (Lexington / Rowman & Littlefield 2019), and has edited or co-edited three collective volumes on theoretical and literary issues. His research activity focuses on literary theory (with an emphasis on psychoanalytic criticism and postcolonial theory), Greek and European modernism, as well as the work of important Greek writers, such as Odysseas Elytis and Nikos Kazantzakis.

Tamara Vuković is a doctoral student at the Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, University of Cyprus. She completed her undergraduate studies in Modern Greek Philology at the Department of Modern Greek Studies, University of Belgrade and her postgraduate studies at the Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, University of Cyprus. She taught Modern Greek literature and language at the Department of Modern Greek Studies, University of Belgrade. She received scholarships from the Kostas and Eleni Ouranis Foundation and the University of Cyprus. She has published articles in scientific journals and translated works from Greek into Serbian, and has edited the Proceedings of the Seferi Symposium “Meres Seferi” in Ayia Napa.