She has published widely on German film, digital media, contemporary literature, and feminism. She is the author of Dismantling the Dream Factory: Gender, German Cinema, and the Postwar Quest for a New Film Language (2009), and the co-editor of German Women’s Writing in the Twenty-First Century (2015). She is currently working on a book about German cinema from 1980-2010. Baer is the recipient of Fulbright and DAAD grants, and she has served as the President of the South Central Modern Language Association and the Coalition of Women in German.