Sheila Cavanagh

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Sheila Cavanagh

Sheila Cavanagh is an Associate Professor in Sociology and the Sexuality Studies Coordinator at York University.^[1] She was previously an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Western Ontario. Cavanagh completed her M.A. at the University of Toronto (OISE), and her Ph.D. in sociology at York University.^[1] Her scholarship is in gender and sexuality studies with a concentration on feminist, queer, cultural, and psychoanalytic theories.^[1] She has published two sole authored books; one edited collection; one play; five book chapters; twelve peer-reviewed journal articles; and four book reviews published in scholarly journals. Cavanagh has been granted federal funding through SSHRC and has presented her research at numerous national and international conferences.

Cavanagh is particularly notable for her scholarship on the social regulation of gender and sexuality, trans studies, and queer pedagogy. Her most recent book, the groundbreaking Queering Bathrooms: Gender, Sexuality, and the Hygienic Imagination, was a 2011 Finalist for the GLBT Next Generation Indie Book Awards. In 2012, Queering Bathrooms received the CWSA/ACEF Outstanding Scholarship Prize Honourable Mention. Queering Bathrooms "brings to light one of the last remaining forms of discrimination and segregation that goes unquestioned".^[2] Fuse Magazine reviewer Syrus Ware writes that Queering Bathrooms "provides a strong argument for reconsidering the public toilet, making it a must-read for city and urban planners, policy makers, architects and designers. Queering Bathrooms offers important recommendations about the future of bathroom design, suggests areas for future research, and imagines a future in which public toilets are at once luxurious, accessible and welcoming to all human beings".^[3] The Queer Bathroom Monologues, a play based on interviews in the book, written and produced by Cavanagh, was staged at the Toronto Fringe Festival,^[4] from July 6–17, 2011, where it received the Patron’s Pick Award. The significance of Cavanagh's first book, Sexing the Teacher: School Sex Scandals and Queer Pedagogies, is highlighted by Professor Kate Krug of Cape Breton University, who notes that it "makes the kind of 'trouble' for the moral panic around female teacher-student sex scandals that Judith Butler's Gender Trouble made for gender."^[5] Sexing the Teacher, which offers an "insightful analysis of female-teacher sex scandals and their treatment in media and public discourse [which] bridges disciplines",^[6] has been given honorable mention by the Canadian Women’s Studies Association for their annual book award.^[7]

Cavanagh is also interviewed in Rohan Spong's documentaries T is for Teacher (2009) and Queer Science (2008).

Current research projects

(In Progress) Queer Psychoanalytics: Jacques Lacan and the ‘Other’ Jouissance. Sole authored manuscript.

Edited books

Co-edited with Angela Failler and Rachel Hurst Skin, Culture and Psychoanalysis. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Books

(2010) Queering Bathrooms: Gender, Sexuality, and the Hygienic Imagination. Toronto: The University of Toronto Press. ISBN 978-1-4426-1073-6
(2007) Sexing the Teacher: School Sex Scandals and Queer Pedagogies. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press. Given honorable mention by the ‘Canadian Women’s Studies Association’ for their annual book award. ISBN 978-0-7748-1374-7

Chapters in books

(Accepted 2012) "Touching Gender: Abjection and the Hygienic Imagination" In Transgender Studies Reader, Volume II (Eds.) Susan Stryker. New York: Duke University Press.
"White Trash: Aileen Wuornos and Queer Productions of Monstrosity" In Skin, Culture and Psychoanalysis (Eds.) Sheila Cavanagh, Angela Failler and Rachel Hurst. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
(2012) Co-authored with Cara Ellingson and Brenda L. Spencer. "Subjectivity and Discipline: Women Teachers and Contradictory Norms of Recognition" In Canadian Education: Governing Practices & Producing Subjects (Eds.) Kari Dehli, Brenda Spencer, and James Ryan. Calgary: Detselig Press.
(2011) “Queer Notes on Sex Education in Ontario” In Darren Stanley and Kelly Young (Eds.) Contemporary Studies in Canadian Curriculum: Principles, Portraits and Practices. Calgary: Detselig Press, 237-269.
(2009) “Sex in the Lesbian Teacher’s Closet: The Hybrid Proliferation of Queers in School” In Jo-Anne Dillabough, Julie McLeod and Martin Mills (Eds.) Gender and Education. Routledge.
(2005) “Female Teacher Gender and Sexuality in Twentieth Century Ontario, Canada,” In Rebecca Coulter and Helen Harper (Eds.), History is Hers: Women Educators in Twentieth Century Ontario. Detselig: Calgary.
(2005) “Nervous Narratives: Female Teacher Maladies in the Twentieth Century,” In Rebecca Coulter and Helen Harper (Eds.), History is Hers: Women Educators in Twentieth Century Ontario. Detselig: Calgary.
(1999) “The Heterosexualization of the Ontario Woman Teacher in the Postwar Period,” in Nuzhat Amin et al. (Eds.), Canadian Woman Studies: An Introductory Reader. Inanna publications and Education Inc.: Toronto. Reprinted in Mona Gleason and Adele Perry (Eds.) Rethinking Canada: The Promise of Women’s History. Oxford University Press.

Papers in refereed journals

(In Progress) “Queer Jouissance: Lacan’s analytic of Sexuation”
(Submitted July 28, 2012) “Queer Bathroom Monologues: A Performed Ethnography” Text and Performance Quarterly.
(Sept. 2008) “Sex in the Lesbian Teacher’s Closet: The Hybrid Proliferation of Queers in School.” Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education 29(3): 387-399.
Cavanagh, Sheila and Sykes, Heather. (2006). “Transsexual Bodies at the Olympics: The International Olympic Policy on Transsexual Athletes at the Athens Summer Games.” Body and Society 12(3): 75-102.
(2006). “Spinsters, Schoolmarms, and Queers: The Unmarried Teacher in Medicine and Psychoanalytic Theory.” Discourse: The Cultural Politics of Education 27(4): 421-440.
(2005) “Sexing the Teacher: Voyeuristic Pleasure in the Amy Gehring Case,” Social Text 82, 23 (1): 111-134.
(2005) “Female Teacher Gender and Sexuality in 20th Century Ontario, Canada.” History of Education Quarterly 45(2): 247-273.
(2004) “Upsetting Desires in the Classroom: School Sex Scandals and the Pedagogy of the Femme Fatale.” Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society (9):315-332.
(2003) “Teacher Transsexuality: The Illusion of Sexual Difference and the Idea of Adolescent Trauma.” Sexualities: Studies in Culture and Society 6 (3-4): 365-388.
(2003) “The Gender of Professionalism and Occupational Closure: The Management of Tenure Related Disputes by the ‘Federation of Women Teachers’ Associations of Ontario’, 1918-1949.” Gender and Education 15 (1): 39-57.
(2001) “From a Belief in Biology as Destiny to an Environmental Perspective of Mental Health: The Impact of the Canadian National Committee for Mental Hygiene on Education in Ontario, Canada, 1920-50.” Change:Transformations in Education: A Journal of Theory, Research, Policy and Practice, 4 (1): 48-62.
(2001) “The Pedagogy of the Pastor: Social Studies Education in Early Twentieth Century Canada.” Canadian Journal of Education. 26 (4): 405-421.
(1999) “The Heterosexualization of the Ontario Woman Teacher in the Postwar Period.” Canadian Woman Studies 18 (1): 55-69, 1998. Reprinted in Nuzhat Amin et al. (1999) (Eds.), Canadian Woman Studies: An Introductory Reader, Toronto, Inanna publications and Education Inc., pp. 387–395. Reprinted in Mona Gleason and Adele Perry (Eds.) Rethinking Canada: The Promise of Women’s History. Oxford University Press.
Cavanagh, Sheila and Harper, Helen. (1997) “Lady Bountiful: The White Woman Teacher in Multicultural Education.” Women’s Education/Des Femmes 11(2): 27-33, 1994. Reprinted (1999) in Women’s Education/Des Femmes 13(1): 94-99.

Book reviews

[Forthcoming September 2014 (vol. 22, no. 3)] Awfully Devoted Women: Lesbian Lives in Canada, 1900-65 by Cameron Duder. Journal of the History of Sexuality.
(2012) Author replies to critics in review of Queering Bathrooms: Gender, Sexuality, and the Hygienic Imagination in Gender, Place and Culture, Vol. 19, No. 4.
(June 2008) Review of Romance in the Ivory Tower by Paul R. Abramson. Teacher’s College Press.
(1998) Review of dangerous territories: struggles for difference and equality in education by Leslie G. Roman and Linda Eyre. Canadian Woman Studies 17(4): 149.
(1995) Review of Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex by Judith Butler. Critical Sociology 21(3): 144-147.

Review essays

(2002) Review Essay. “The Pedagogy of Texts on Transgendered Subjects.” International Journal of Cultural Studies 5(4): 499-506.

Non-refereed media publications

(2011) “Unisex Toilets and the Sex-Elimination Linkage” Gay and Lesbian Review.
(April 5–11, 2007) “No textbook crime: Teacher-teen affairs are unprofessional but not always criminal” Now Magazine, Issue 1315, Volume 26, No. 31.
(March 29, 2007) “Student/teacher relationships: Professional misconduct or sex crime?” Xtra!, No. 585, p. 12.
(1996) “The Prom You Never Had, The Prom You Always Wanted: For Lesbian and Gay Youth.” Siren 1, 3 (August/September): 3-4.

Public art and performance projects

[In Progress] The Cut (Playwright).
[Forthcoming] Queer Bathroom Monologues. Professional production at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, Toronto, 2013-2014, official season. (Playwright).
(2012) Queer Bathroom Monologues. Performance ethnography read at Towson University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States. (Playwright).
(2012) Queer Bathroom Monologues. Performance ethnography read at the LGBTQA Pride Leadership camp in Nashville, July 17, sponsored by the Iron Crow Theatre Company in Baltimore Maryland. (Playwright).
(2011) Queer Bathroom Monologues. Performance ethnography (play) staged for an eight day run at the Toronto Fringe Festival, July 6-17th, 2011 (received the Audience Pick Award); George Brown College, Toronto, March 22, 2012 (Invited); the ‘Walking the Talk: Human Rights in Higher Education’ conference sponsored by the Canadian Association for the Prevention of Discrimination and Harassment in Higher Education, Toronto, May 4, 2012 (Invited); and at the Canadian Sociological Association annual meeting, SSHRC Congress, as a special event following the President’s reception, Wilfrid Laurier University, May 31, 2012. (Playwright and Producer).

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