He received his Ph.D. in English and Humanities from Stanford University in 2000 with a dissertation on recursive structures in American poetry that included a chapter on Louis Zukofsky (though not, alas, on Niedecker)! After teaching at UW-Madison for three years as a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of English, he is delighted to be currently employed at a university that is a mere 10 miles from Black Hawk Island, though he is dismayed that so few of his Wisconsin students have ever heard of Lorine Niedecker. He has published an essay on Wallace Stevens and "messianic time" and is working on a book that examines the relationship of Stevens to postmodern, experimental poetry. Jonathan lives in Madison with his wife, Simone Schweber, and their two children, and he enjoys canoeing on the Rock River with his friend and colleague, poet Patrick Moran."