Professor Jagoe has previously taught at the University of Essex in the United Kingdom, and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in the United States, before joining the faculty at the University of Toronto. Her research includes comparative nineteenth-century literature, film studies, and critical and cultural theory. Professor Jagoe is also a published author, with her book The End of the World as They Knew It: Writing Experiences of the Argentine South examining the shaping of a collective memory and history of Argentina through selected texts. In 2011, Professor Jagoe was the recipient of a Jackman Humanities Research Fellowship for her book project, Too Much. In 2013-14 she was Acting Director of Comparative Literature, and also teaches in the Literature and Critical Theory program.