Spencer D. C. Keralis is a Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) Postdoctoral Research Associate with the University of North Texas Libraries.
Spencer held a Legacy Fellowship at the American Antiquarian Society in 2009, and an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship at the Library Company of Philadelphia in 2008. He received the 2009 Tuttleton Prize for Research in American Literature from the New York University Department of English. His article, “Pictures of Charlotte: The Illustrated Charlotte Temple and Her Readers” won Book History’s 2010 Essay Prize.
Spencer is the founder and editor of Laughing Mouse Press, a small press specializing in hand-made chapbooks. He is also the co-editor, with Becky Hensley, of the questionnaire-based interview blogazine 12 Questions .
His current research projects focus on representations of children and animals in early American literature and material culture; and on the implications of social media, digital curation, and data management for the future of the humanities.