Liam Benison

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4989-4370
Ciência Vitae: https://www.cienciavitae.pt//pt/7212-25F2-7D7C

Liam Benison has a BA (Hons) and MA from the University of Melbourne, Australia. After working in London, UK as an editor, he returned to the academy and graduated with a joint doctorate from the University of Porto and University of Kent (UK) in 2020 with a thesis entitled ‘Reduced to a Map: Poetic Geographies of “Australia”, 1606–1708’.

His current project “Privutopia” explores the conception of privacy in early modern Europe in utopian texts, paratexts and maps. It is funded via the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Seal of Excellence scheme and based in the Department of Cultures and Civilizations at the University of Verona. As part of this project he is conducting a “distant reading” of early modern utopias in the CETAPS Digital Lab with the assistance of Dr. Luciano Moreira. He is an affiliated scholar of the Centre for Privacy Studies at the University of Copenhagen.

Selected publications

Edited Volume:

Utopian Possibilities: Models, Theories, Critiques (Porto: U.Porto Press, 2023).

Refereed Journal Articles:

‘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), pp. 61–89.

‘”Catching Birds in the Net”: Paratexts of Deception and Persuasion in Early Modern Utopias’, Paratesto 20 (2023) (in press).

Book Chapters:

‘Introduction: Towards Utopian Possibilities’, in Utopian Possibilities: Models, Theories, Critiques, ed. by Liam Benison (Porto: U.Porto Press, 2023), pp. 27–32.

‘Exchanges of Knowledge at the Private–Public Divide in Smeeks’s Krinke Kesmes’, in Utopian Possibilities: Models, Theories, Critiques, ed. by Liam Benison (Porto: U.Porto Press, 2023), pp. 101–108.

‘Geographical Poetics’, in Palgrave Handbook of Utopian and Dystopian Literatures, ed. by Peter Marks, Jennifer Wagner Lawlor, and Fátima Vieira (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022), pp. 537–547 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-88654-7_42).

 
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