Hello! My name is Lauren Spohn. I’m a Rhodes Scholar, writer, and filmmaker pursuing a DPhil in Philosophical Theology at Oriel College, Oxford. Besides reading/writing/adventuring, I also enjoy running long distances and flying small planes.
On Dentistry - Tongues can lie about the nature of things. Can teeth? (Genealogies of Modernity)
Out of Shadows - A night walk with saints. (The Catholic Herald)
The Myths of Meritocracy - When the ladder wobbles. (The American Oxonian)
A World Lit up in Wonder - A conversion story. (The Tablet)
Midnight in Lviv - The story of Ukriane’s American exiles. (Lviv Now)
Star Tours - The history and future of space tourism. (Symposeum)
The Outset Island Effect -The phenomenology of game music. (With a Terrible Fate)
Proficiency Test - When the alternator fails—6,000 feet above the desert floor. (Air Facts)
Social Science and Other Miraculous Signs - Reading the stats of the times. (The Harvard Ichthus)
Footgolf: The American Sport - See! Americans can play sports with our feet! (The Harvard Crimson)
Absolution (2022)
Writer/Director
A man sees his therapist for help with a difficult problem and leaves with mixed results.
A Wonders in the Dark Production
11 Film Festival Selections (US/Foreign)