Lauren LaFauci received her Ph.D. in English from the University of Michigan in 2009, and her scholarly work focuses on the intersections of 18th- and 19th-century American literary, cultural, and environmental history. She is currently at work on a book project titled Peculiar Nature: Race, Environment, and Nationalism in the Southern States, 1789-1865, and teaches early American Studies and environmental humanities at Simpson College (Indianola, Iowa), where she is an assistant professor of English.

Lauren worked in the CAT program as a writing coach from 2007-2009. Before CAT, she taught a number of courses in English, writing, and American Studies at the University of Michigan and the University of Mainz (Germany). Lauren has also worked privately as a freelance editor for a number of manuscript projects in Ann Arbor and the Bay Area. Designated a Michigan Teaching Fellow for her pedagogical work, she has coached many graduate student writers at Stanford and Michigan to thesis and dissertation success.

She divides her time between Iowa and the Bay Area, where you will most likely find her outside. She volunteers as a docent at the Mid-Peninsula Regional Open Space District, where she provides environmental education and leads field trips for elementary-school students from across the Peninsula, and she enjoys hiking, bird- and wildlife-watching, photography, and gardening.

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