She has a PhD in Psychology and teaches in the areas of Gender Studies, Cultural Studies and Human-Animal Studies. She is the author of The Science/Fiction of Sex: Feminist Deconstruction and the Vocabularies of Heterosex (2002) and co-editor of Sex and the Body (2004). Annie was the principal investigator on a project funded by the Health Research Council of NZ which explored the use of Viagra within relationships. She is currently investigating the perspectives and experiences of ‘vegansexuals'; and also researching the historical sexual exploitation of nonhuman animals in science and psychological research.