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

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