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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)

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[edit]

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[edit]

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

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  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 978-0415714426.
  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. S2CID 84827574. Retrieved 5 June 2017.

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