KJ Cerankowski

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).

KJ Cerankowski
OccupationProfessor, author
NationalityAmerican
EducationPh.D., Modern Thought and Literature
Alma materStanford University
University of Southern California
SubjectGender studies
LGBT culture
Queer studies
Notable worksAsexualities: Feminist and Queer Perspectives (2014)

Education and career

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]

Selected works

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]

See also

References
  1. Stark, Leah (24 February 2015). "Shedding light on asexuality". Medical Xpress. Retrieved 5 June 2017.
  2. Cerankowski, Karli June (July 2014). Illegible: asexualities in media, literature, and performance (Thesis). Stanford University. Retrieved 5 June 2017.
  3. "KJ Cerankowski | Oberlin College and Conservatory". Oberlin College and Conservatory. 24 August 2017. Retrieved 6 September 2017.
  4. "Karli Cerankowski | The Clayman Institute for Gender Research". gender.stanford.edu. Retrieved 5 June 2017.
  5. Cerankowski, Karli June; Milks, Megan (2014). Asexualities : feminist and queer perspectives. Routledge. ISBN 0415714427.
  6. Cerankowski, Karli June; Milks, Megan (2010). "New Orientations: Asexuality and Its Implications for Theory and Practice". Feminist Studies. 36 (3): 650–664. JSTOR 27919126.
  7. Cerankowski, Karli June (15 June 2013). "Queer Dandy Style: The Cultural Politics of Tim Gunn's Asexuality". WSQ: Women's Studies Quarterly. 41 (1): 226–244. doi:10.1353/wsq.2013.0059. ISSN 1934-1520. Retrieved 5 June 2017.
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