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A searchable database, UR-Linked allows aspiring undergraduate researchers, scholars, and artists to connect with faculty mentors across campus. UR-Linked includes faculty profiles as well as more specific information about their research projects and artistic endeavors.


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Spencer Keralis LIBRARIAN IV



    https://spencerkeralis.com/


    Research Description
    Dr. Keralis's current research explores the mediation of the HIV-positive body in DIY comics and zines from the early years of the AIDS epidemic. Using software emulation, media archaeology, and critical autoethnography, Dr. Keralis examines the intersections of desktop publishing software, AIDS activism, and queer identity through the reclamation of the HIV-positive body in countercultural publications. Their work has appeared in hyperrhiz: new media cultures, Disrupting the Digital Humanities, Book History, and Debates in Digital Humanities. Dr. Keralis is the co-editor of the book DH+BH: Digital Humanities and Book History. They currently serve as Head of Digital Scholarship Services and Co-Director of the Center for Digital and Public Humanities at the University of Missouri – Kansas City.


    Afflicated Department(s)

    English Language & Literature  Libraries  


    First-generation college graduate
    yes


Now that UR-Linked has helped you to identify a faculty member whose interests align with your interests, be sure to review the essential steps in contacting a potential faculty mentor.

The Director of Undergraduate Research, Dr. Jane Greer., can provide you with further guidance about finding and connecting with faculty mentors at UMKC.

Once you have reviewed the essential steps to prepare for connecting with a potential faculty mentor, you can use the "Contact Details" for this project to connect with the faculty member and to begin a conversation about how you might work with that him or her.