Michelle Stephens and Sheila L Cavanagh

Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy events presents another installment of interviews with the co-authors of their ground breaking book 'Lacan and Race'. In this video we chat to Sheila L. Cavanagh and Michelle Stephens.
Sheila L. Cavanagh is a professor at York University, Toronto, Canada. She teaches courses on gender, sexuality, race, and psychoanalytic sociology. She edited a special double issue of Transgender Studies Quarterly on psychoanalysis (2017) and co-edited Skin, Culture and Psychoanalysis (2013). Her scholarship appears in a wide range of psychoanalytic journals and book chapters. Cavanagh is co-editing a special issue of Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society on the psychoanalysis of Bracha L. Ettinger with Julian Gutierrez-Albilla. She is also completing her third book monograph titled Bracha L. Ettinger and Jacques Lacan.
Michelle Stephens, professor of English and Latino and Caribbean Studies, is a licensed psychoanalyst and the founding executive director of the Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice at Rutgers University. She is the author of Skin Acts: Race, Psychoanalysis and The Black Male Performer (Duke 2014); three co-edited collections in archipelagic American and Caribbean studies; and recent essays on race and psychoanalysis in Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association (JAPA), Studies in Gender and Sexuality, Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society, and Contemporary Psychoanalysis.