Annamarie Jagose (born 1965) is an

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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 satell ...

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 kn ...

) 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 no ...

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

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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

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for ''Slow Water'' * 2004 winner of the Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction 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 (1879–19 ...

for ''Slow Water'' * 2004 won Deutz Medal for Fiction for ''Slow Water'' at the

* 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 {{DEFAULTSORT:Jagose, Annamarie 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