People
Spencer Schaffner

Spencer Schaffner is Associate Professor of English at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Contact Information
208 English Building | MC-718
spencers@illinois.edu
Website:
metaspencer.com
Education
PhD, Language and Rhetoric, University of Washington
Research Interests
Teacher training, new media composition, rhetorical theory, environmental rhetorics.
Selected Publications
Schaffner, Spencer. 2012. "Mockumentaries Meet New Media," Too Bold
for the Box Office: The Mockumentary from Big Screen to Small, Cynthia
Miller, Ed. (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, Inc.), pp. 201-212.
McDowell, Jacqueline and Spencer Schaffner. 2011. "Football, it’s a
Man’s Game: An Exploration of Gendered Discourse in 'The Gender
Bowl,'" Discourse & Society 22.5: 547-564.
Schaffner, Spencer. 2010. "Desktop MCing," Kairos: A Journal of
Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy 14.2:
http://kairos.technorhetoric.net/14.2
Schaffner, Spencer. 2008. "Urban Literacy Center Manifesto," Kairos: A
Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy, 12:3:
http://www.technorhetoric.net/12.3/topoi/schaffner
Schaffner, Spencer. 2007. "Strategic Simulations," JAC, 47.3: 717-730.
Schaffner, Spencer. 2007. "Projection: Grounding the Writing Major in
the Socio-Graphemic Approach," Composition Studies: Special Issue on
The Writing Major, Editors: Linda Adler-Kassner, Heidi Estrem, 35.1:
55-56.
Schaffner, Spencer. 2004. Review: Writing Genres, by Amy Devitt.
Enculturation, 5.2: http://enculturation.gmu.edu/5_2/schaffner.html
Schaffner, Spencer. 2003. "The Five-Paragraph Essay: Friend or Foe?" A
Closer Look: The Writer's Reader. Sid Dobrin and Anis Bawarshi, Eds.
New York: McGraw Hill: 784-787.

