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). Education and career. Cerankowski received a Ph.D. in Modern Thought and Literature at Stanford University in 2014; 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." Cerankowski is an assistant professor of Comparative American Studies and Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies at Oberlin College. 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. Selected works. With Megan Milks, Cerankowski co-edited "Asexualities: Feminist and Queer Perspectives" (Routledge, 2014), one of the earliest collections of essays on the study of asexuality. Cerankowski's writings have been published in "Feminist Studies" and "WSQ: Women's Studies Quarterly". KJ