Lauren has taught college-level writing, film, and literature courses to students from both traditional and non-traditional backgrounds. 

As a Lecturer in the English Department at Goucher College in Baltimore, Maryland, she taught through the Goucher Prison Education Partnership, a member of the Consortium for the Liberal Arts in Prison.  At the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, she taught both at the main campus and in prison through the Correctional Education Program.

Courses Designed and Taught as Sole Instructor, Goucher College

• Women and Literature: Diverse Voices in Contemporary U.S. Women’s Writing

• Writing Skills

• Writing Studio

Courses Designed and Taught as Sole Instructor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

• Documentary Film

• First-year English Composition and Rhetoric

• Film and American Culture

• 20th Century American Literature

Teaching Assistantships, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

• Great Books I: Romancing the World

• Slacker Cinema

• Global Cinema

• American Cinema/American Culture

• 18th Century Novel

• Shakespeare and Film