Cami Agan Ph.D.

Dr. Cami Agan teaches courses in British Literature, Film Studies, Composition and Honors Humanities and specializes in Medieval, British 18th century, and Utopian studies. She is the sponsor for OC’s chapter of Sigma Tau Delta, the English Honors Society. Her favorite courses to teach are her upper-level courses such as Shakespeare, Chaucer and Jane Austen. Recently, Dr. Agan published a chapter on the 18th century dramatist Frances Sheridan in Approaches to Teaching Restoration and 18th Century Women Playwrights; an article entitled “Song as Mythic Conduit in Fellowship of the Ring”, and has a forthcoming chapter in Approaches to Teaching J.R.R Tolkien. Dr. Agan is a member of MLA (Modern Language Association), ASECS (American Society for the Eighteenth Century Studies), the Medieval Academy of America, and the Society for Utopian Studies.

When asked what she likes most about the Language and Literature Department, she said: “I love the community spirit and the exchange of ideas. Students and faculty create wonderful relationships in the department.”

Outside of her academic work, Dr. Agan is interested in mid-century architecture, art and art history, cooking, and antiquing. She loves to read Louise Erdrich, Philip Roth, Margaret Atwood, and Ursula K. LeGuin. “I try to read people who are living because I teach so many authors of the distant past.”