EGO is proud to announce that the keynote speaker for "Theoretical Misfits" is Dr. James Kincaid

Cover image from Erotic Innocence: The Culture of Child Molesting

Dr. Kincaid is on faculty at the University of Southern California in the Department of English. His areas of interest include Critical Theory, American Studies, Nineteenth Century, and Queer Studies. Dr. Kincaid has published numerous articles in collected volumes and journals and has written seven books; some of his more recent volumes are Erotic Innocence: The Culture of Child Molesting, Annoying the Victorians, and Child-Loving: The Erotic Child & Victorian Culture. Dr. Kincaid has also written extensively on issues concerning the academy and institutional practice.

James R. Kincaid

Dr. Kincaid's work humorously and provocatively challenges traditional assumptions about literary criticism, both how to read it and how to write it. Annoying the Victorians, for instance, works to break the "rules" of Victorian scholarship, rules Kincaid suggests are followed mostly by habit. His keynote address for the conference will be titled:

Weak Theory, Graduate Education, and Other Monstrosities

Dr. Kincaid's speech will be free and open to the public.