Sheila L. Cavanagh is a professor at York University, Toronto, and an analytic candidate at the Lacanian School of Psychoanalysis in California. She is a co-editor of Australian Feminist Studies with Alison Moore and Elizabeth Stephens. Cavanagh coordinated the Sexuality Studies Program at York and is past chair of the Canadian Sexuality Studies Association. She has received multiple SSHRC grants in Canada and was awarded the distinguished talent residency by the Australian government for outstanding academic achievement. Cavanagh has written three books, most recently Bracha L. Ettinger & Jacques Lacan: Psychoanalysis, Sexuality & the m/Other (2026). Her first book Sexing the Teacher: School Sex Scandals and Queer Pedagogies was given honorable mention by the Canadian Women’s Studies Association. Cavanagh’s second book Queering Bathrooms: Gender, Sexuality, and the Hygienic Imagination is a GLBT Indie Book Award finalist and recipient of the CWSA/ACEF Outstanding Scholarship Prize Honourable Mention. She has published over 50 articles and book chapters combined. Cavanagh edited four Special Issues of journals with Julián Daniel Gutiérrez-Albilla, most recently two Special Issues in Australian Feminist Studies (forthcoming) with Toby Anne Finlay. Cavanagh is past co-editor of Somatechnics journal and now sits on the editorial boards of Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society; Studies in Gender and Sexuality; and Parapraxis magazine. Her scholarship has been presented internationally and she has given keynote addresses at conferences in Sweden, Turkey, the United States and Canada.