Annamarie Jagose

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Annamarie Jagose (born Ashburton, New Zealand, 1965) is a writer of academic and fictional works. She gained her PhD (Victoria University of Wellington) in 1992, and worked as a lecturer in English at Melbourne University before returning to New Zealand in 2003, where she is currently Associate Professor in the Department of Film, Television and Media Studies at the University of Auckland.

While at Melbourne University, Ms Jagose lectured a series of undergraduate and honours subjects on body cultures, including fat and pregnant bodies.

She recently came under fire in a scandal surrounding the 2006 round of Marsden Grant Awards where she was awarded 465,000 NZ$ for research on "the hustler, the modern orgasm, and the sexual culture of Auckland." Questions were raised after 6 million NZ$ out of a total of 38 million NZ$ were awarded to members of the panel. Jagose herself is a panel member.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Awards

1994 won NZSA Best First Book Award for In Translation
2003 won Deutz Medal for Fiction in the Montana New Zealand Book Awards 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 for Slow Water