James R. Kincaid

{{short description|American academic}}

James R. Kincaid is an American academic, currently the Aerol Arnold Professor of English at the University of Southern California.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=d9CnvypGA6UC&q=Aerol+Arnold+Professor&pg=PA288|title=Professions: Conversations on the Future of Literary and Cultural Studies|last=Hall|first=Donald Eugene|date=2001|publisher=University of Illinois Press|isbn=978-0-252-06961-1|pages=288|language=en}} His Erotic Innocence (1998) discusses the sexualization of children in mainstream culture.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OYthv5g-Q5AC&q=Aerol+Arnold+Professor&pg=PR11|title=Celebrity, Pedophilia, and Ideology in American Culture|publisher=Cambria Press|isbn=978-1-62196-967-9|pages=12|language=en}}

Kincaid received the Raubenheimer Award for Teaching and Scholarship in 2000.{{Cite web|url=https://orsl.usc.edu/james-r-kincaid/|title=James R. Kincaid {{!}} Office of Religious and Spiritual Life {{!}} USC|website=orsl.usc.edu|access-date=2020-01-03}}