Jonathan

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Prof of Book History @UWMadison. Dir., Center for History of Print & Digital Culture. Author: Intimacy of Paper. WheatleyCensus.org. Summers @CalRBS. Assoc Editor @PBSA. 4:56 marathoner. Mediocre triathlete. Episcopal. Little League ⚾️ coach #BillsMafia 🦬 ♾️

Farleys at Bangers August 22 6pm.
A Marlboro reds cigarette pack edited to say Jonathan instead of Marlboro.
A screenshot showing the author's name in a workday website panel, which an arched red bar at the top, making it look like a Marlboro cigarette pack.
Screenshot from an NYT email promoting best books of the year so far list.
Stencil black spray paint on a white sheet of tarpaulin. Reads “a man was lynched yesterday.”
Screenshot of Google maps showing parkland in Madison wi between N Sherman and Roth streets where a faint shadow of a baseball infield is visible.
Grey cat with purple collar
Demolition wreckage of the old Buffalo Bills stadium.
A promotion letter on UW Madison letterhead.
Against a background of summer flower gardens, the cover of an academic journal, PBSA. It is black and green. It features a sign from the British Library noting that some services are limited due to cyber attack.
Lucille Clifton’s “why people be mad at me sometimes”
Book cover of Toni Morrison’s A Mercy
Real estate photo showing an empty wood floored room with white walls and brown bookshelves along the walls.
Screenshot of an email subject line that says "participants needed for cheese tasting research."
A man with a cargo bike. In the cargo basket is a golden retriever wearing cycling goggles.
A college mascot in the form of a badger standing in front of a building sign that says Chadbourne Hall, Chadbourne Residential College. Behind them is a dormitory tower made of cream colored brick.
Art from a midcentury title page of a periodical "quarterly for bookmen." Depicts a nude figure leaning against a rock holding a heavy object. The butt is center stage. Colors are cream paper and red-orange ink. The image is made in a relief engraving.
A stack of journal issues from volume 118.3 through 120.1. Spines are three colors, red, violet, and light green. They sit on a green shelf with assorted unrelated books in background.
headline related to April 2026 warehouse fire in San Bernadino county accompanied by photo of a night sky lit orange by fire with smoke rising from a burning warehouse
A news headline that says the president of the US will use 15 million dollars earmarked for the National Endowment for the Humanities to build an archway.
screenshot of a google search that says "Related Searches" and shows a picture of Frederick Douglass next to the words "phillis wheatley husband."
A social media card with player photos from Wisconsin women’s hockey team arranged around the words National champions and a trophy.
Newspaper photo of the President of the USA with the caption “the president said the crisis would be over ‘pretty soon.’”
An undisturbed case bound book with dark navy boards sits on a wood grain table next to a sopping wet blue pamphlet. A water bottle is behind them.
Screenshot of a Facebook marketplace ad for “virginity rocks” sandals.
Screenshot of an email announcing a positive vote recommending JS for promotion to full professor.
4 journal covers in white, black, and purple featuring images of book bindings and book binding tools.
Course schedule showing intro to information science and history and future of books with enrollment numbers, 58 for the former and 29 for the latter.
A block of text that reads: "Only on looking back ... at his own figure in 1854, and pondering on the needs of the twentieth century, he wondered whether, on the whole, the boy of 1854 stood nearer to the thought of 1904, or to that of the year 1 ... in essentials, the American boy of 1854 stood nearer to the year 1 ... Before the boy was six years old he had seen four impossibilities made actual--the ocean-steamer, the railway, the electric telegraph, and the Daguerreotype." Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams [1905]
Open pamphlet containing @bibsocamer annual report text. Includes photo of two people at a conference posing for the camera.
A circle made of four arrows, indicating a cycle in which the Buffalo Bills and Sabres trade off being good or sucking.
A very small rubber chicken pinched between thumb and index finger held up against a large lecture hall background.