Join us for a book talk with KJ Cerankowski (Oberlin College) to celebrate the November 2025 launch of his most recent book, Nothing Wanting: Asexuality and the Matter of Absence (University of Minnesota Press, 2025). A scholar, poet, and writer specializing in comparative American studies, asexuality, trauma theory, archive studies, queer theory, and transgender studies, Cerankowski writes about literature, film, and visual art through queer, trans, and (a)sexuality studies lenses, analyzing disability, neuroqueerness, environment and ecology, and globalization.
Cerankowski's first book, Suture: Trauma and Trans Becoming (Punctum, 2021), received the 2021 Queer Indie Award for Nonfiction, was named among the Best of 2020-2021 Nonfiction by Entropy Magazine, and was shortlisted for the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present 2022 Book Prize. He is the co-editor of Asexualities: Feminist and Queer Perspectives (Routledge, 2014), and his scholarly and creative writing has appeared in WSQ: Women’s Studies Quarterly, Feminist Studies, Memory Studies, Journal of Visual Culture, DIAGRAM, Pleiades, Sinister Wisdom, Identity Theory, and The Account, among others. His work has been recognized and supported by numerous fellowships, including long-term awards at the Newberry Library, Harvard University, and Yale University's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
This event is supported by the Department of English, the Humanities Center, Global & Intercultural Studies, and the Institute for the Environment and Sustainability.
