Book Contributions

• Dobrin, Sidney , and Morey Sean. "Ecosee: Image, Rhetoric, and Nature." Field Guides to Birds: Images and Image/Text Positioned As Reference. Comp. Spencer Schaffner. New York: SUNY UP, 2008.
• Bawarshi, Anis, and Sidney Dobrin. "The Five-Paragraph Essay: Friend or Foe?." A Closer Look: The Writer's Reader. New York: McGraw Hill, 2003.

Journal Articles

• Schaffner, Spencer. "Environmental Sporting: Birding at Superfund Sites, Landfills, and Sewage Ponds." Journal of Sport and Social Issues 33.3 (2009): 206-229.
• Schaffner, Spencer. "Response: Ursula Heise's 'Ecocriticism and the Transnational Turn in American Studies." American Literary History 20.1-2 (2008):
• Schaffner, Spencer. "Projection: Grounding the Writing Major in the Socio-Graphemic Approach." Composition Studies: Special Issue on The Writing Major 35.1 (2007):
• Schaffner, Spencer. "Strategic Simulations." JAC 47.3 (2007):

Essays

• Parris, Brandy, and Spencer Schaffner. "A Cinematic Critique as Public Humanities." Inside Higher Education. 2005. 1 Nov. 2005.
• "Birding with the First American Field Guides to Birds." Birding. American Birding Association, 2005.

Websites

• Urban Literacy Center Manifesto. 7 Jan. 2008. Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy. 7 Jan. 2008.

Reviews

• "Writing Genres, by Amy Devitt." Rev. of Writing Genres, by Amy DevittEnculturation 5.2 (2004): 1 Jun. 2004.
• "A Field Book of Wild Birds and Their Music, by F. Schuyler Mathews (published in 1904).." Rev. of A Field Book of Wild Birds and Their MusicFatBirder.com (2002): 30 Dec. 2002.

Works in Progress

• Binocular Vision: Birdwatching, Field Guides, and the Environmental Imagination (book manuscript, under consideration)
• an article on the science of unintelligible writing
• with Paul Prior "Bird Identification as a Family of Activities: Motives, Mediating Artifacts, and laminated Assemblages," Outlines: Special Issue on Wildfire Activities, Ed. Yrjö Engeström. (under consideration)