Jim Kincaid

Professor Emeritus of English and Aerol Arnold Professor Emeritus of English

Email kincaid@usc.edu Office THH 410 Office Phone (213) 740-3753

Research & Practice Areas

Victorian literature and culture, sexuality studies, cultural studies

Summary Statement of Research Interests

Professor Kincaid researches critical theory, American Studies and Queer studies. Before coming to USC in 1987, he taught at Ohio State, Berkeley, and Colorado. Kincaid’s earlier work in Victorian literature and culture and in literary theory has yielded to publication in cultural studies, most recently in the history and current cultural practices of eroticizing children and instituting elaborate scapegoating rituals to disguise what we are doing. He regularly teaches classes in criminality/lunacy/perversion, in age studies, in censorship, and in other areas of literary, political, and cultural studies.
novels, 4 novels finished/revised and sent to agent, 2006-2007
Aerol Arnold Chair in English and Professor of English, 1987/01/01

for Teaching and Scholarship, 2000

Guggenheim Fellowship Recipient, 1973
Editorships and Editorial Boards

Editorial Board Member, PMLA”, 1977 – 1980