Honours (major and minor) - Sociology and Psychology, York University Sheila L. Cavanagh is a Canadian academic, playwright, and psychotherapist doing a psychoanalytic formation at the Lacan School in San Francisco.

She is best known for her book Queering Bathrooms: Gender, Sexuality, and the Hygienic Imagination (2010[2])[3] and for a special double-issue she edited on Trans-Psychoanalysis in TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly.

Cavanagh is also co-editor of a collection with Angela Failler and Rachel A. J. Hurst titled Skin, Culture and Psychoanalysis ( 2013[8])[9] 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 Theatre, Toronto, in June 2014 for WorldPride and has subsequently toured at conferences, colleges and universities in Canada and the United States.

Cavanagh, Holly Randell-Moon and Iris van der Tuin co-edit Somatechnics,[10] a multi-disciplinary academic journal focusing on ethics, technology and the body.