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Dr. Liam Benison is a researcher in the Department of Cultures and Civilizations at the University of Verona, collaborating researcher in the Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies (CETAPS) at the University of Porto, and an affiliated scholar of the Centre for Privacy Studies at the University of Copenhagen. After completing his BA and MA at the University of Melbourne, Australia, he edited and published primary health-care journals in London before returning to the academy. He earned a joint PhD from the University of Porto and University of Kent in 2020. His research interests include early modern privacy, utopian literature, cartography, book history, history of knowledge, and encounters between Indigenous and Europeans in Australia. At the University of Verona, he teaches bibliography and library science in Italian. His current research project, "Privutopia", financed in Italy via the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Seal of Excellence scheme (CUP: B37G22000830006), investigates changes in the meaning of privacy and related concepts such as dissimulation and surveillance in early modern Europe through the lens of utopian texts, paratexts and maps. His research has been published with Palgrave and in KNOW: A Journal on the Formation of Knowledge. His edited volume Utopian Possibilities: Models, Theories, Critiques was published by U.Porto Press in 2023.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Liam Benison

Citation names

  • Benison, Liam

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
7212-25F2-7D7C
ORCID iD
0000-0002-4989-4370

Telephones

Mobile phone
  • (+351) 969349275 (Professional)

Addresses

  • Rua do Freixo, 1234, Casa 1, 4300-211, Porto, Porto, Portugal (Personal)

Knowledge fields

  • Humanities - Languages and Literatures - General Literature Studies

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
English (Mother tongue)
Portuguese Upper intermediate (B2) Advanced (C1) Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2)
Italian Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2)
French Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Spanish; Castilian Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2)
German Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1)
Dutch Elementary (A2)
Old English (ca. 550-1100) Advanced (C1)
Education
Degree Classification
2015/09/01 - 2020/11/26
Concluded
 Text and Event in Early Modern Europe (Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorate) (Doutoramento)
Major in Literature and Culture
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Portugal

University of Kent School of English, United Kingdom
"Reduced to a Map: Poetic Geographies of 'Australia', 1606–1708" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Distinction
1994/03/01 - 1998/12/31
Concluded
 Master of Arts (Magister)
Major in Old English Literature and Culture
The University of Melbourne, Australia
"Translation in Old English Literature: The Politics of Christian Conversion" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 H2A
1995/04/10 - 1995/05/10
Concluded
 Teaching English as a Foreign Language to Adults (CTEFLA) (Licence)
Major in Language teaching
Holmes Institute, Australia
 Pass B
1988/01/07 - 1993/12/01
Concluded
 Bachelor of Arts (Bachelor)
Major in English
The University of Melbourne, Australia
 H2A
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2022/12/20 - 2025/12/19 Contracted Researcher (Research) Università degli Studi di Verona, Italy
Università degli Studi di Verona, Italy

Other Careers

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2001/01/26 - 2014/11/30 Técnico Superior (Técnico Superior) Mark Allen Group, United Kingdom

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2022/05/01 - Current Affiliated Scholar Centre for Privacy Studies, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
2021/01/01 - Current Collaborating Researcher Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Portugal
Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Portugal
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Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2022/12/20 - 2025/12/19 Privutopia
B37G22000830006
Post-doc Fellow
Università degli Studi di Verona, Italy
Ongoing
2015/09/01 - 2018/08/31 Text and Event in Early Modern Europe (TEEME)
EMJD TEEME
PhD Student Fellow
University of Kent, United Kingdom

Universidade do Porto, Portugal
Concluded

Other

Designation Funders
2022/07/01 - 2025/07/31 Portals on Privacy in Early Modern Utopian Literature
01010
Post-doc
Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Portugal
Ongoing
2001/01/26 - 2014/11/30 Practice Nursing
ISSN: 0964-9271
Editor
Mark Allen Group, United Kingdom
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Benison, Liam. "Ten Sailors and Five Men of Distinction: A Rare Meeting in the Southland in 1658". In The Palgrave Handbook of Global Oceanic Encounters through History, edited by Lynette Russell. Melbourne, Australia: Palgrave, 2025.
    Under revision
  2. Benison, Liam. "Vestiges of Private Dialogues in Early Modern Utopian Literature". In Practices of Privacy: Vestiges of Dialogue, edited by Annemie Leemans, Natacha Klein Käfer, Jelena Bakic, Liam Benison. Rome, Italy: Academia Belgica, 2025.
    Under revision
  3. Benison, Liam. "Talking Privately in Utopia: Ideals of Silence and Dissimulation in Smeeks' Krinke Kesmes (1708)". In Tracing Everyday Conversations in Early Modern Europe, edited by Johannes Ljungberg; Natacha Klein Käfer. London, United Kingdom: Palgrave, 2024.
    In press
  4. Benison, Liam. "Introduction: Towards Utopian Possibilities". In Utopian Possibilities: Models, Theories, Critiques, 27-32. Porto, Portugal: U.Porto Press, 2023.
    Published
  5. Benison, Liam. "Exchanges of Knowledge at the Private-Public Divide in Smeeks's Krinke Kesmes". In Utopian Possibilities: Models, Theories, Critiques, edited by Liam Benison, 101-108. Porto, Portugal: U.Porto Press, 2023.
    Published
  6. Benison, Liam. "Geographical Poetics". In The Palgrave Handbook of Utopian and Dystopian Literatures, edited by Peter Marks; Jennifer Wagner Lawlor; Fátima Vieira, 537-547. London, United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
    Published • 10.1007/978-3-030-88654-7_42
  7. Benison, Liam. "How to Write for Publication". In Handbook of Practice Nursing, edited by Martin, Jeannett; Lucas, Julia. London, United Kingdom: Churchill Livingstone / Elsevier, 2004.
    Published
  8. Benison, Liam. "Translation during King Alfred's Reign: The Politics of Conversion and Truth". In The Medieval Translator 6: Traduire au Moyen Age, edited by Ellis, Roger; Tixier, René; Weitemeier, Bernd. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 1998.
    Published
Conference abstract
  1. Moreira, Luciano; Benison, Liam; Pierazzo, Jaqueline; Cerqueira, Tânia; Gonçalves, Alice; Caetano, Joana; Isabel Relvas. Corresponding author: Moreira, Luciano. "The making of a sustainable digital humanities lab: A values-oriented approach". Paper presented in Arts and Humanities in Digital Transition 2023, 2023.
    Published
Edited book
  1. Benison, Liam. Utopian Possibilities: Models, Theories, Critiques. Porto, Portugal: U.Porto Press. 2023.
    Published • https:/doi.org/10.21747/978-989-746-359-4/uto • Editor
Journal article
  1. Benison, Liam. ""Catching Birds in the Net": Paratexts of Deception and Persuasion in Early Modern Utopias". Paratesto 20 (2023): 25-39.
    Published • https://doi.org/10.19272/202305901002
  2. Benison, Liam. "Negotiations at the Border of Knowledge: The Paradox of Privacy in Early Modern Utopia". KNOW: A Journal on the Formation of Knowledge 7 1 (2023): 61-89. https://doi.org/10.1086/724825.
    Published
  3. Benison, Liam. "Gábor Gelléri and Rachel Willie, eds., Travel and Conflict in the Early Modern World (Routledge, 2020) [Review]". SEDERI Yearbook 32 (2022): 123-127. http://www.sederi.org/yearbook/sederi-32/.
    Published
  4. Benison, Liam. "Early Medieval Science: The Evidence of Bede". Endeavour 24 3 (2000): 111-116.
    Published
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Benison, Liam. "Reduced to a Map: Poetic Geographies of 'Australia', 1606-1708". PhD, Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, 2020.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2024/03/22 Strategies for the Publication and Concealment of Private Knowledge in Early Modern Maps of "Australia", as part of the Panel: "Privacy in Context IV: Engaging new sources", convened by Prof. Mette Birkedal Bruun RSA Chicago 2024 Conference
Renaissance Society of America (Chicago, United States)
2023/11/23 The Construction and Limits of Public Geographical Knowledge of the “Southland” in the Seventeenth Century History of Knowledge Conference
University of Porto (Porto, Portugal)
2023/11/22 (with Luciano Moreira) Privacy in French Utopian Literature during the Enlightenment: A Distant-Reading Approach to the Heuristic Zones of Privacy History of Knowledge Conference,
University of Porto (Porto, Portugal)
2023/07/14 Observation and Omission in Seventeenth-Century Print and Manuscript Cartographies of the "Australian" Coast International Society for the History of the Map (ISHMap) Symposium: "Intersections in Map History"
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (Berlin, Germany)
2023/07/07 Geographic Imaginaries of Early Modern Privacy in Utopian Literature 23rd Conference of the Utopian Studies Society Europe
Babes-Bolyai University (Cluj, Romania)
2023/03/22 Un'esperienza dell'editoria inglese: Interfaccie specializzate e praticanti [An experience of English publishing: The specialist-practitioner interface] (guest lecture in Italian) Professor Federica Formiga's MA Course in Publishing
University of Verona (Verona, Italy)
2023/03/21 Paratesti utopici della prima età moderna [Early modern utopian paratexts] (guest lecture in Italian) Professor Federica Formiga's BA Course in the History of the Book
University of Verona (Verona, Italy)
2022/12/01 Portals to Early Modern Privacy through Utopian Dialogues Second Practices of Privacy Symposium: “Vestiges of Dialogue and its Places”
Academia Belgica, Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome and Danish Institute in Rome (Rome, Italy)
2022/07/15 Hope and Time in Premodern and Modern Utopia 22nd Conference of the Utopian Studies Society Europe
University of Brighton (Brighton, United Kingdom)
2021/12/12 Exchanges of Public and Private Knowledges in a pre-Enlightenment Utopia Set in Terra Australis, part of the Panel: "Crossing the Public–Private Divide in Global Utopianism", organized by Liam Benison 21st Conference of the Utopian Studies Society, Europe (online via Zoom)
University of Porto (Porto, Portugal)
2021/06/04 Dissimulation as a Form of Early Modern Privacy: A Utopian Perspective (online via Zoom) Privacy Studies conference: "Early Modern Notions of Privacy and the Private"
Centre for Privacy Studies, University of Copenhagen (Copenhagen, Denmark)
2021/05/15 Diplomacy and Go-Betweens in the Australian Aboriginal Land Rights Struggle (Guest Lecture via Zoom) Modern History (MA course) taught by Dr. Renu Elizabeth Abraham
O.P. Jindal Global University (Sonipat, India)
2021/02/23 Ten Sailors and Five 'Men of Esteem': Understanding a Dutch Account of 'Aboriginal Australia' in 1658 Maritime History & Culture Seminars
National Maritime Museum (Royal Museums Greenwich) (London, United Kingdom)
2020/04/24 Utopia as a Source for Understanding Early Modern Privacy Knowledge in the Making: Practices of Privacy Symposium, held online via Zoom, 24 April to 31 May
Centre for Privacy Studies, University of Copenhagen (Copenhagen, Denmark)
2019/07/03 The Map View: Environmental Transformation in Early Modern Utopias 'Utopia, Dystopia and Climate Change', 20th International Conference of the Utopian Studies Society
Utopian Studies Society Europe (Prato, Italy)
2019/04/12 Food Consumption and Production in an Imagined and Material South Land 'More Meals to Come', Alimentopia International Conference
Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Study (CETAPS), University of Porto (Porto, Portugal)
2018/09/15 Humanist Knowledge Practices in the Cartography of Terra Australis Incognita, part of a panel 'Craft Humanism in the Early Modern World’, convened by Dr. Maria Avxentevskaya, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin Eighth Conference of the European Society for the History of Science
European Society for the History of Science (London, United Kingdom)
2018/09/12 More in Terra Australis Incognita: Two Seventeenth-Century French Utopias 'Thomas More and History', Paris International Thomas More Seminar
Amici Thomae Mori (Paris, France)
2018/05/26 At the Border of Knowledge in the Land of the Yued Texts and Events across Borders', Sixth TEEME Conference
Freie Universität Berlin (Berlin, Germany)
2017/04/28 Knowledge and Expectation in Early Modern Utopias Set in Terra Australis 38th Conference of the Portuguese Association for Anglo-American Studies
Universidade do Minho (Braga, Portugal)
2016/07/09 Antipodean Desires and Fears in Early Modern Utopias Set in Terra Australis Utopia 500
Utopian Studies Society Europe (Lisboa, Portugal)

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2023/11/01 - 2023/11/20 Lecture by Dr Jelena Bakic: "Emotions of Complaint in Renaissance Italy: Voices from the Margins" (2023/11/20 - 2023/11/20)
Other (Other)
 Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Portugal
2023/11/01 - 2023/11/20 Workshop led by Dr. Natacha Klein Käfer: How to Write a Book Proposal (2023/11/20 - 2023/11/20)
Workshop (Other)
 Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Portugal
2020/07/01 - 2022/03/09 'Vestiges of Dialogue', 2nd Practices of Privacy Symposium. Call for papers: https://teol.ku.dk/privacy/join-us/call-for-publications/practices-of-privacy-vestiges-of-dialogue/ (2021/03/07 - 2022/03/09)
Conference (Co-organisor)
 Centre for Privacy Studies, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
2016/06/15 - 2016/11/05 'Begin with an Object', Fifth TEEME Conference (2016/11/03 - 2016/11/05)
Conference (Co-organisor)
 University of Kent School of English, United Kingdom

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2023/09/28 - 2024/02/12 Languages and Literatures for Publishing and Digital Media Bibliografia e biblioteconomia digitale (in Italian) (Bachelor) Università degli Studi di Verona, Italy
Distinctions

Award

1995 HB Higgins Scholarship for the Study of Poetry
The University of Melbourne, Australia
1993 Edith Derham Prize in Poetry
The University of Melbourne, Australia

Other distinction

2021 Horizon Europe Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships Seal of Excellence for project "PRIVUTOPIA" (101068613), 5 May.
Horizon Europe Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships, Belgium
2020 Horizon 2020 Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2020 Seal of Excellence for project "PRIVUTOPIA" (101033193), 26 March.