Her research spans literatures in English, French, and German of the 19th to the 21st century, with special interests in aesthetics, affect, and subject-formation. She is the author of the book Figures of Simplicity. Sensation and Thinking in Kleist and Melville, and the editor of multiple books on the configurations of subjectivity. During her time at OSU, Dr. Kaiser worked on her book project on Hélène Cixous and a transcultural aesthetics of subject formation. Visit Dr. Kaiser's page to learn more about her research.