Sheila L. Cavanagh is a professor at York University, Toronto. She is also a clinical candidate at the Lacanian School of Psychoanalysis in San Francisco. Cavanagh coordinated the Sexuality Studies Program at York and is past chair of the Canadian Sexuality Studies Association. She also co-edited Somatechnics Journal and sits on the editorial boards of Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society, Studies in Gender and Sexuality, and Parapraxis magazine. Cavanagh edited a special double issue of the journal Transgender Studies Quarterly on psychoanalysis and co-edited Skin, Culture and Psychoanalysis (Palgrave Macmillan). Her first sole-authored book Sexing the Teacher: School Sex Scandals and Queer Pedagogies was given honorable mention by the Canadian Women’s Studies Association. Cavanagh’s second sole-authored book titled 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. Her scholarship has been published in The Psychoanalytic Review; MAMSIE: Studies in the Maternal; European Journal of Psychoanalysis; Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society; and Studies in Gender and Sexuality. Her psychoanalytic sociology has been presented at the Freud Museum, the Anna Freud Centre, the Tampa Bay Psychoanalytic Association, the Toronto Psychoanalytic Society, and at multiple psychoanalytic conferences affiliated with the International Psychoanalytic Association and the New Lacan School. Cavanagh has also given academic keynote addresses at conferences in Sweden, Turkey, the United States and Canada.
