Sheila L. Cavanagh is a Canadian academic, playwright, and psychotherapist doing a psychoanalytic formation at the Lacan School in San Francisco. She is a

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of sociology and former chair of the Sexuality Studies Program at

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/ref> Cavanagh teaches courses in gender studies, sexuality studies, feminist theory, psychoanalysis, and queer theory. She is best known for her book
Queering Bathrooms: Gender, Sexuality, and the Hygienic Imagination
' (2010) and for a special double-issue she edited on Trans-Psychoanalysis in '' TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly''.

Career

Cavanagh received a bachelor's degree from the Faculty of Education and Sociology at York University. She earned a master's from the University of Toronto, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education ( OISE) and a Ph.D. in sociology at York University in 1999. After graduating, Cavanagh was hired as an assistant professor in the Department of Women's Studies at Western University. Cavanagh is currently

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of sociology and was formerly the chair of the Sexuality Studies Program at

. Cavanagh is a former chair of the Canadian Sexuality Studies Association.

Publications

Books

Cavanagh has written a number of books and articles in the area of gender and sexuality with an emphasis on queer theory and more recently, psychoanalysis. Her first book was title
''Sexing the Teacher: School Sex Scandals and Queer Pedagogies''2007)
Her second sole-authored book titled
Queering Bathrooms: Gender, Sexuality, and the Hygienic Imagination
' (2010) was a GLBT Indie Book Award finalist and recipient of the CWSA/ACEF Outstanding Scholarship Prize Honourable Mention (2012). Cavanagh is also co-editor of a collection with Angela Failler and Rachel A. J. Hurst title
''Skin, Culture and Psychoanalysis''
( 2013)

Plays

Cavanagh later adapted interview transcripts collected in the process of researching her second book, Queering Bathrooms into a play entitled
Queer Bathroom Monologues (QBM
, which premiered at the Toronto Fringe Festival (2011) and was given the Audience Pick Award. QBM was later staged at

Buddies in Bad Times Buddies in Bad Times Theatre is a Canadian professional theatre company. Based in Toronto, Ontario and founded in 1978 by Matt Walsh, Jerry Ciccoritti, and Sky Gilbert, ''Buddies in Bad Times'' is dedicated to "the promotion of queer theatrical ex ...

Theatre, Toronto, in June 2014 for WorldPride and has subsequently toured at conferences, colleges and universities in Canada and the United States.

Articles

Cavanagh, Holly Randell-Moon and Iris van der Tuin co-edit ''Somatechnics'', a multi-disciplinary

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focusing on ethics, technology and the body. Cavanagh recently Guest Edited a Special Issue of '' TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly'', on the topic of transgender and psychoanalysis. Cavanagh's scholarly articles have been published in
Sexualities: Studies in Culture and Society
Body and Society, an
European Journal of Psychoanalysis
' among other journals. She is also regularly interviewed by popular media on issues related to the rights and inclusion of trans* people.

References

External links

Sheila Cavanagh Website

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