Kit L Kincade

Kit L Kincade serves as Professor of English in the College of Arts & Sciences at Indiana State University, where she directs departmental initiatives and contributes to Gender Studies programming. Her academic leadership includes editorial roles as Managing Editor of the Stoke Newington Daniel Defoe edition series and Book Review Editor for The Eighteenth-Century Novel.

Her educational background features a Ph.D. in English from Louisiana State University (1998), with doctoral research centered on Daniel Defoe's supernatural writings. The dissertation Daniel Defoe's: An Essay on the History and Reality of Apparitions: A Critical Edition established her expertise in Defoe scholarship and textual criticism.

Kincade's research explores intersections of 18th-century British literature, gender dynamics, and textual production. She examines Defoe's narrative innovations through bibliographic analysis while investigating Austen's social critiques of patriarchy. Her work demonstrates how economic frameworks shape sentimental discourse and how Robinsonade adaptations traverse cultural boundaries. This scholarship reveals evolving methodologies in editing Defoe's complex textual history.

Recent publications show concentrated focus on Defoe's Crusoe corpus and Austen's masculinity studies, with significant editorial contributions to Defoe's complete works. Her 2023-2024 output includes critical reviews of major Defoe reference works and monographs on Robinsonade adaptations, reflecting ongoing engagement with textual scholarship and cultural reception.

Kincade maintains active service commitments including Gender Studies Curriculum Committee leadership (2018) and sustained involvement with Gender Studies Student Awards since 2002. She received a $5,000 University Research Grant supporting her editorial work, while nominations for the Caleb Mills Distinguished Teaching Award (2011, 2022) and Theodore Dreiser Research Award (2016, 2022) recognize her dual excellence in pedagogy and scholarship.