About Annamarie
Professor Annamarie Jagose OAM is Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Provost at the
University of Sydney, having previously worked at the University of Auckland and the University
of Melbourne. An internationally renowned scholar in feminist and queer studies, she is a
Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and a Fellow of the Royal Society of New
South Wales. In 2026, she was awarded the Order of Australia Medal for service to tertiary
education. She is also Director of the Westpac Scholars Trust, which empowers the next
generation of leaders through education and development opportunities, and a Patron of the
Pinnacle Foundation, Australia’s LGBTQIA+ education charity.
She is the author of four scholarly monographs: including, most recently, Orgasmology (Duke University Press), as well as a short story writer and an award‑winning novelist. Her most recent novel, Slow Water (Vintage Books), a work of historical fiction based on a nineteenth-century
sexual scandal in colonial Sydney, was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award and
won both the Deutz Medal and the Victorian Premier’s Award.
Kind regards,
John
Professor John Prins
Dean, Faculty of Medicine and Health
