Le travail de la Professeure Glover explore la littérature et le cinéma postcoloniaux des régions francophones, avec un accent particulier sur les Caraïbes et l'Afrique subsaharienne. Ses recherches critiques interrogent la formation des canons littéraires, examinant la réception d'auteurs tels que les Spiralistes haïtiens au sein des traditions établies. Elle se penche également sur les pratiques éthiques et la représentation du soin de soi dans la fiction en prose caribéenne. Son travail de traduction rend accessibles des œuvres littéraires francophones importantes à un public plus large.
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.