While a residential fellow during the fall semester, Lauren will be working on her third book, Critical, Fallible Dialogue. For much of the twentieth century, rational deliberation was advanced as the most efficacious means to promote the democratic aim of achieving consensus and avoiding force. Her book challenges this assumption and develops an interdisciplinary model of dialogue as a third way beyond the force-rationality dichotomy. Lauren's other areas of research and teaching interests include philosophy and literature, feminism, ethics, American pragmatism, and hermeneutics.