Benison, Liam

Originally from Melbourne, Australia, I arrived in Portugal in 2016. I have a BA (Hons) and MA in early medieval English poetry in cultural context from the University of Melbourne, and graduated with a joint doctorate from the University of Porto and University of Kent (UK) in 2020. In my PhD thesis, I brought together my passions for poetry, languages, maps, utopian literature, and visual art to analyse the geographical poetics of pre-colonial European ideas of “Australia” in the context of Indigenous knowledges of place.