Curriculum Vitae

2007
PhD in comparative literature and literary sciences, Departments of Anglistics and Roman Philology,
University of Verona. Thesis: “In the Old Irish Tonality: Oral Echoes and Traditional Culture in the Works of James
Joyce and Ciaran Carson”.
2006 – Present
Member of the editorial board and web-master of Iperstoria (www.iperstoria.it), a digital journal issued by the
University of Verona and the Verona Literary Society.
2003 – Present
Research assistant at the English Department, University of Verona.
2002
Degree in English and Spanish Literature. University of Verona. Thesis: “Testi e contesti: la narrativa di Patrick
McCabe”. Marks: 110/110, lode e dignità di pubblicazione (honours and special mention).
2000 – 2001
Academic year at the National University of Ireland, Galway (Erasmus student).
Sept. 2001 EFACIS
European Intensive Programme on Irish Studies, Université Charles de Gaulle – Lil le III, Lille, France.

2007 – today
Freelance Web Developer, specialised in Ruby on Rails and Wordpress/PHP development.
2007 – today
Freelance translator, specialised in the IT ﬁeld. I am currently collaborating with the Translated.net
translation agency.
Autums 2007
Development of yogabenessere.it, a Ruby on Rails powered website for a Yoga center in Verona.
I authored both the design and the code. (http://www.yogabenessere.it)
Summer 2007
Italian language teacher at the Lingua.it language school, Verona. Teaching to foreign students
through Italian, English and Spanish.
Summer 2006
Development of iperstoria.it, a Wordpress powered website hosting an academic journal. I au-
thored both the design and the code. (http://www.iperstoria.it)
2003 – 2005 Italian language teacher at the Idea Verona language school, Verona. Teaching to foreign students
through Italian, English and Spanish.
Occasional
Musician. I play the ﬁddle, the tin whistle and I sing with Cnó, a Verona-based Irish traditional music band, performing in pubs, bars and at summer festivals.

Web Development
Expert of Wordpress/PHP development, author of a number of Wordpress plugins.
Skilled in Ruby on Rails Development.
Skilled in (x)HTML/CSS templating and Javascript.
Desktop/mobile development: Cocoa/Objective-C skills on Mac Os X; ongoing Cocoa/Cocoa touch development project.
Computer graphic
Use of Adobe Photoshop and GIMP. Photo retouching, posters design and web graphic elements design.
Music Use of the Lylipond music engraving system, of the ABC notation system and of the related applications.

Davide Benini