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.
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.
[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.
[7] Cerankowski published "Suture: Trauma and Trans Becoming" in November 2021