Spencer D. C. Keralis is a scholar of the past, present, and future of the book.
For more than a decade, Dr. Keralis has explored the ethics of collaboration in humanities research and critical digital pedagogy. This work appears in Disrupting the Digital Humanities (2018) the Modern Language Association publication Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities: Concepts, Models, and Experiments (2020), The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy (2022), and is forthcoming in Debates in Digital Humanities 2023 (with Maura Seale and Rafia Mirza), the ACRL collection Scholarly Communication Librarianship and Open Culture: Law, Economics, and Publishing (with John Edward Martin), and the Routledge collection Lessons Learned: Digital Humanities Workshops (with Elizabeth Grumbach).
Dr. Keralis served as Assistant Professor and Digital Humanities Librarian with the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, leading efforts to catalyze digital scholarship and digital pedagogy for UIUC faculty, staff, and students from 2019-2022. From 2012-2018, Dr. Keralis served as Research Associate Professor and Head of the Digital Humanities and Collaborative Programs Unit with the Public Services Division of the University of North Texas Libraries. They taught in the University of North Texas Department of English, the University of Texas at Dallas School of Arts, Technology, and Emerging Communication, and the UNT iSchool. They hold a Ph.D. in English & American Literature from New York University.
Dr. Keralis’s research in history of the book appeared in Book History, a special issue of American Periodicals on children’s periodicals, and in Buzzademia: Scholarship in the Internet Vernacular a special issue of hyperrhiz: New Media Cultures. Their work on research data management appeared in the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) reports The Problem of Data (2012) and Research Data Management: Principles, Practices, and Prospects (2013), and in ResearchDataQ (2019).
Dr. Keralis held a 2017 Summer Residency at the Queer Zine Archive Project, a Mellon Fellowship at the Library Company of Philadelphia (2008), a Legacy Fellowship at the American Antiquarian Society (2010), and served as a CLIR Fellow in Academic Libraries with the University of North Texas Libraries (2011-2012). In 2017, they were honored with the Innovative Outreach Award for the Digital Frontiers project by the Texas Digital Library.