Annamarie Jagose (born 1965) is an
LGBT
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academic and writer of fictional works.
Life and career
Jagose was born in
Ashburton, New Zealand
Ashburton ( mi, Hakatere) is a large town in the Canterbury Region, on the east coast of the South Island of New Zealand. The town is the seat of the Ashburton District. It is south west of Christchurch and is sometimes regarded as a satellit ...
in 1965.
She gained her PhD (
Victoria University of Wellington
Victoria University of Wellington ( mi, Te Herenga Waka) is a university in Wellington, New Zealand. It was established in 1897 by Act of Parliament, and was a constituent college of the University of New Zealand.
The university is well know ...
) in 1992, and worked in the Department of English with Cultural Studies at
the University of Melbourne
The University of Melbourne is a public research university located in Melbourne, Australia. Founded in 1853, it is Australia's second oldest university and the oldest in Victoria. Its main campus is located in Parkville, an inner suburb nor ...
before returning to New Zealand in 2003, where she was a Professor in the Department of Film, Television and Media Studies at the
University of Auckland
, mottoeng = By natural ability and hard work
, established = 1883; years ago
, endowment = NZD $293 million (31 December 2021)
, budget = NZD $1.281 billion (31 December 2021)
, chancellor = Cecilia Tarrant
, vice_chancellor = Dawn F ...
and Head of the Department from 2008 to 2010.
From 2011 to 2016 she was Head of the School of Literature, Art and Media at the
University of Sydney
The University of Sydney (USYD), also known as Sydney University, or informally Sydney Uni, is a public research university located in Sydney, Australia. Founded in 1850, it is the oldest university in Australia and is one of the country's si ...
and in 2017 she took up the role of Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Sydney. She has been the subject of recent controversy in her administrative position at the University of Sydney for initiating a restructure of the University in light of the coronavirus pandemic, which could see 30% of staff made redundant.
Awards and honours
* 1994 won NZSA Best First Book Award for ''In Translation''
* 2004 won Deutz Medal for Fiction in the
Montana New Zealand Book Awards
The Ockham New Zealand Book Awards are literary awards presented annually in New Zealand. The awards began in 1996 as the merger of two literary awards events: the New Zealand Book Awards, which ran from 1976 to 1995, and the Goodman Fielder W ...
for ''Slow Water''
* 2004 winner of the
Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction The Victorian Premier's Prize for Fiction, formerly known as the Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction, is a prize category in the annual Victorian Premier's Literary Award. As of 2011 it has an remuneration of 25,000. The winner of this category prize vi ...
for ''Slow Water''
* 2004 was shortlisted for the Australian
Miles Franklin Literary Award
The Miles Franklin Literary Award is an annual literary prize awarded to "a novel which is of the highest literary merit and presents Australian life in any of its phases". The award was set up according to the will of Miles Franklin (1879–195 ...
for ''Slow Water''
* 2004 won Deutz Medal for Fiction for ''Slow Water'' at the
Montana New Zealand Book Awards
The Ockham New Zealand Book Awards are literary awards presented annually in New Zealand. The awards began in 1996 as the merger of two literary awards events: the New Zealand Book Awards, which ran from 1976 to 1995, and the Goodman Fielder W ...
* 2015 elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities
Selected works
* ''Lesbian Utopics'' (New York: Routledge, 1994)
* ''In Translation'' (Wellington: Victoria University Press and Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 1994)
* ''Queer Theory: An Introduction'' (New York: New York University Press, 1996)
* ''Lulu: A Romance'' (Wellington: Victoria University Press and Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 1998)
* ''Inconsequence: Lesbian Representation and the Logic of Sexual Sequence'' (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2002)
* ''
Slow Water'' (Wellington: Victoria University Press and Sydney: Random House, 2003)
* ''Orgasmology'' (Durham: Duke University Press, 2013)
References
External links
Annamarie Jagose profile at the University of Sydney
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1965 births
Living people
Lesbian writers
New Zealand LGBT writers
People from Ashburton, New Zealand
New Zealand women novelists
Queer women
Queer writers
Queer theorists
University of Auckland faculty
Victoria University of Wellington alumni
20th-century New Zealand novelists
21st-century New Zealand novelists
21st-century New Zealand women writers