| 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 |
| Notableworks: | 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