Spencer Schaffner

Assistant Professor of English

Office: 300 English | MC-718
Office Phone: 333-1797

email: spencers@uiuc.edu
Center for Writing Studies Faculty Page
metaspencer.com


Courses

ENGLISH 300: WRITING ABOUT LITERATURE
TOPIC: The Graphic Novel

ENGLISH 481: COMPOSITION THEORY AND PRACTICE
TOPIC: Teaching Language Arts in the High Schools

ENGLISH 482: WRITING TECHNOLOGIES
TOPIC: Writing for the Web in HTML

ENGLISH 506: WRITING STUDIES II
TOPIC: Discourse Analysis

ENGLISH 582: TOPICS IN RESEARCH AND WRITING
TOPIC: Genre Theory

ENGLISH 584: TOPICS IN DISCOURSE AND WRITING
TOPIC: The Rhetoric of Public Engagement

Education

Ph.D., Language and Rhetoric, University of Washington, 2005
M.A., English Literature, Boston College, 1997
B.A. University of Colorado, 1993

Specializations

Teacher training, new media composition, rhetorical theory, and environmental rhetorics.