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Jesper Olsson holds a PhD in comparative literature from Stockholm University, and has published the study Alfabetets användning. Konkret poesi och poetisk artefaktion i svenskt 1960-tal (2005). He works as university lecturer and literary
critic. He is also editor of the poetry and theory magazine OEI, and he is Swedish coordinator in the Nordic Network of Avant-Garde Studies. The coming year he will be Visiting Scholar at The University of California, Davis,pursuing a research project on literature and the tape recorder.