KJ Cerankowski | |
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Occupation | Professor, author |
Nationality | American |
Education | Ph.D., Modern Thought and Literature |
Alma mater |
Stanford University University of Southern California |
Subject |
Gender studies LGBT culture Queer studies |
Notable works | Asexualities: Feminist and Queer Perspectives (2014) |
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).
Cerankowski received a Ph.D. in Modern Thought and Literature at Stanford University in 2014; [1] 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." [2]
Cerankowski is an assistant professor of Comparative American Studies and Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies at Oberlin College. [3] 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. [4]
With Megan Milks, Cerankowski co-edited Asexualities: Feminist and Queer Perspectives ( Routledge, 2014), [5] one of the earliest collections of essays on the study of asexuality.
Cerankowski's writings have been published in Feminist Studies [6] and WSQ: Women's Studies Quarterly. [7]
Cerankowski published "Suture: Trauma and Trans Becoming" in November 2021