Birgit Kaiser
Department of Languages, Literature and Communication - Comp
Utrecht University
Netherlands
Biography
I am Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Transcultural Aesthetics at Utrecht University, holding a BA and MA in Sociology from Bielefeld University and a PhD from the Department of Comparative Literature at New York University. In spring 2017, I have been visiting researcher at the Department of Philsophy of the University of Paris-Nanterre (Paris X) and am currently a visiting researcher at the department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at the Ohio State University. During my research stay at OSU, I am working on my current book project on Hélène Cixous and a transcultural aesthetics of subject formation.
Research Interest
Cultures, Citizenship and Human Rights
Publications
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Kaiser, B.M. & Burns, Lorna (2012). Postcolonial Literatures and Deleuze: Colonial Pasts, Differential Futures. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
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Thiele, Kathrin & Kaiser, Birgit (2014). Diffracted Worlds - Diffractive Readings: Onto-Epistemologies and the Critical Humanities. Parallax, 72 (3), (pp. 165-287).
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Kaiser, Birgit (2015). Singularity and Transnational Poetics. (195 p.). Routledge.
