La Professoressa Glover si addentra nella letteratura e nel cinema postcoloniali delle regioni francofone, con un focus particolare sui Caraibi e sull'Africa subsahariana. Il suo lavoro critico indaga la formazione del canone, esaminando la ricezione di autori come gli Spiralisti haitiani all'interno delle tradizioni letterarie. Esplora inoltre le pratiche etiche e la rappresentazione dell'auto-cura nella narrativa in prosa caraibica. Il suo lavoro di traduzione porta significative opere letterarie francofone a un pubblico più ampio.
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.
Dance on the Volcano tells the story of two sisters growing up during the Haitian Revolution in a culture that swings heavily between decadence and poverty, sensuality and depravity. One sister, because of her singing ability, is able to enter into the white colonial society otherwise generally off limits to people of color. Closely examining a society sagging under the white supremacy of the French colonist rulers, Dance on the Volcano is one of only novels to closely depict the seeds and fruition of the Haitian Revolution, tracking an elaborate hierarchy of skin color and class through the experiences of two young women. It is a story about hatred and fear, love and loss, and the complex tensions between colonizer and colonized, masterfully translated by Kaiama L. Glover.