Professor Glover's scholarship delves into postcolonial literature and cinema from francophone regions, with a particular focus on the Caribbean and Sub-Saharan Africa. Her critical work interrogates canon formation, examining the reception of authors like the Haitian Spiralists within literary traditions. She also explores ethical practices and the representation of self-care in Caribbean prose fiction. Her translation work brings significant francophone literary works to a wider readership.
Kaiama L. Glover examines Francophone and Anglophone Caribbean literature whose female protagonists enact practices of freedom that privilege the self, challenge the prioritization of the community over the individual, and refuse masculinist discourses of postcolonial nation building.