KJ Cerankowski

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| education = Ph.D., Modern Thought and Literature

| alma_mater = Stanford University
University of Southern California

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| subject = Gender studies
LGBT culture
Queer studies

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| notableworks = Asexualities: Feminist and Queer Perspectives (2014)

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KJ Cerankowski (previously published as Karli June Cerankowski) is an American professor and author whose work focuses on gender and human sexuality with a focus on asexuality studies. They are an assistant professor of Comparative American Studies and Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies at Oberlin College. With Megan Milks, they co-edited Asexualities: Feminist and Queer Perspectives (Routledge, 2014).

Education and career

Cerankowski received a Ph.D. in Modern Thought and Literature at Stanford University in 2014;{{cite web|last1=Stark|first1=Leah|title=Shedding light on asexuality|url=https://medicalxpress.com/news/2015-02-asexuality.html|website=Medical Xpress|access-date=5 June 2017|date=24 February 2015}} they completed a dissertation entitled Illegible: asexualities in media, literature, and performance analyzing the cultural significance of asexuality as "a queer way of thinking about sexual subjectivity, desire, and intimacy."{{Cite thesis |title=Illegible: asexualities in media, literature, and performance |url= https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/10580628 |last=Cerankowski |first=Karli June |publisher=Stanford University |access-date= 5 June 2017|date=July 2014}}

Cerankowski is an assistant professor of Comparative American Studies and Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies at Oberlin College.{{cite web|title=KJ Cerankowski {{!}} Oberlin College and Conservatory|url=https://www.oberlin.edu/kj-cerankowski|website=Oberlin College and Conservatory|access-date=6 September 2017|language=en|date=24 August 2017}} Before joining the Oberlin faculty, they were a lecturer in the department of Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Stanford University and a fellow at the Clayman Institute for Gender Research.{{cite web|title=Karli Cerankowski {{!}} The Clayman Institute for Gender Research|url=http://gender.stanford.edu/people/karli-cerankowski|website=gender.stanford.edu|access-date=5 June 2017|archive-date=12 June 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170612063811/http://gender.stanford.edu/people/karli-cerankowski|url-status=dead}}

Selected works

With Megan Milks, Cerankowski co-edited Asexualities: Feminist and Queer Perspectives (Routledge, 2014),{{cite book|last1=Cerankowski|first1=Karli June|last2=Milks|first2=Megan|title=Asexualities : feminist and queer perspectives|date=2014|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-0415714426}} one of the earliest collections of essays on the study of asexuality.

Cerankowski's writings have been published in Feminist Studies{{cite journal|last1=Cerankowski|first1=Karli June|last2=Milks|first2=Megan|title=New Orientations: Asexuality and Its Implications for Theory and Practice|journal=Feminist Studies|date=2010|volume=36|issue=3|pages=650–664|jstor=27919126}} and WSQ: Women's Studies Quarterly.{{cite journal|last1=Cerankowski|first1=Karli June|title=Queer Dandy Style: The Cultural Politics of Tim Gunn's Asexuality|journal=WSQ: Women's Studies Quarterly|date=15 June 2013|volume=41|issue=1|pages=226–244|doi=10.1353/wsq.2013.0059|s2cid=84827574|url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/510272|access-date=5 June 2017|issn=1934-1520|url-access=subscription}}

Cerankowski published "Suture: Trauma and Trans Becoming" in November 2021