Prof. dr. Birgit Kaiser

Hoogleraar
Literatuurwetenschap
Moderne en hedendaagse literatuur

Sleutelpublicaties

Kaiser, B. M., & Burns, L. (2012). Postcolonial Literatures and Deleuze: Colonial Pasts, Differential Futures. Palgrave Macmillan. http://www.palgrave.com/page/detail/postcolonial-literatures-and-deleuze-lorna-burns/?K=9780230348257
Thiele, K. C., & Kaiser, B. M. (Eds.) (2018). Returning (to) the Question of the Human: Special Issue for philoSOPHIA: A Journal of Continental Feminism. philoSOPHIA, 8(1), 1-125.
Kaiser, B. M. (2010). Figures of Simplicity. Sensation and Thinking in Kleist and Melville. (Intersections: Philosophy and Critical Theory ed.) Suny Press. http://www.sunypress.edu/p-5031-figures-of-simplicity.aspx
Kaiser, B. (2015). Singularity and Transnational Poetics. Routledge. http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9781138775787/
Thiele, K., & Kaiser, B. (2014). Diffracted Worlds - Diffractive Readings: Onto-Epistemologies and the Critical Humanities. Parallax, 72(3), 165-287. http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/tpar20/20/3#.VM4GRCfo-8w
Thiele, K. C., Kaiser, B. M., & Bunz, M. (Eds.) (2017). Symptoms of the Planetary Condition: A Critical Vocabulary. Meson Press. http://meson.press/books/symptoms-of-the-planetary-condition/

Publicaties

2022

Wetenschappelijke publicaties

Kaiser, B., Thiele, K., & O'Leary, T. (2022). Introduction. In K. Thiele, B. M. Kaiser, & T. O'Leary (Eds.), Ends of Critique: Methods, Institutions, Politics (pp. 1-16). (New Critical Humanities). Rowman & Littlefield.
Kaiser, B. (2022). The ends of critical intimacy: Spivak, Fanon, and Appropriative Reading. In B. Kaiser, K. Thiele, & T. O'Leary (Eds.), The Ends of Critique: Methods, Institutions, Politics (pp. 117-138). RLI.
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/420224/The_Ends_of_Critique_Methods_Institutions_Politics_Chapter_6_The_Ends_of_Critical_Intimacy_Spivak_Fanon_and_Appropriative..._.pdf?sequence=1
Thiele, K. C., Kaiser, B. M., & O'Leary, T. (Eds.) (2022). The Ends of Critique: Methods, Institutions, Politics. (New Critical Humanities). Rowman & Littlefield.

2021

Wetenschappelijke publicaties

Kaiser, B. (2021). Areia movediça. Revista Rosa, 3(3).
Kaiser, B. (2021). On the Politics of Diffractive Reading. In K. Merten (Ed.), Diffractive Reading: New Materialism, Theory and Critique (pp. 31-50). RLI.
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/420223/Diffractive_Reading_New_Materialism_Theory_Critiqu..._Chapter_2_On_the_Politics_of_Diffractive_Reading_.pdf?sequence=1

Vakpublicaties

Thiele, K., Kaiser, B., Bolte, R., & Cuntz, M. (2021). Zwillingsträumer revisited. Über die Moderne(n) hinausträumen. In M. Bengert, J. Dünne, & M. Walther (Eds.), Zukunft, gefaltet: Choreographien des Als-Ob (pp. 233-256). nocturne. https://nocturne-plattform.de/publikation/zukunft-gefaltet
Thiele, K., Kaiser, B., Bialas, D., & Bolte, R. (2021). Leichenschau? Bio- und Thanatopolitiken exquisiter Kadaver. In M. Bengert, J. Dünne, & M. Walther (Eds.), Zukunft, gefaltet: Choreographien des Als-Ob (pp. 93-118). nocturne. https://nocturne-plattform.de/publikation/zukunft-gefaltet
Thiele, K., Kaiser, B., Bialas, D., & Egert, G. (2021). Brief ins Jahr 2070: Sorge in kollektiven Gefügen. In M. Bengert, J. Dünne, & M. Walther (Eds.), Zukunft, gefaltet: Choreographien des Als-Ob (pp. 21-50). nocturne. https://nocturne-plattform.de/publikation/zukunft-gefaltet
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/420281/Faltungen_1_Brief_ins_Jahr_2070_Sorge_in_kollektiven_Gefu_gen_Kaiser_Thiele_Egert_Bialas_1_51.pdf?sequence=1

2020

Wetenschappelijke publicaties

Kaiser, B. (2020). Poetics. In H. Hix (Ed.), Counterclaims: Poets and Poetries, Talking Back (pp. 41-42). Dalkey Archive Press.
Kaiser, B. (2020). Teaching Comparative Literature in English(es): Decolonizing Pedagogy in the Multilingual Classroom. Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry, 7(3), 297-306. https://doi.org/10.1017/pli.2020.7
Kaiser, B., & Thiele, K. (2020). Forms of Critique, Modes of Combat. In S. Khatib, H. Kuhn, O. Lochner , I. Mehl , & B. Söntgen (Eds.), Critique : The Stakes of Form (pp. 95-116). Univ. of Chicago Press.

2019

Wetenschappelijke publicaties

Kaiser, B. M. (2019). Helene Cixous' So Close; or, Moving Matters on the Subject. In R. Askin, D. Rudrum, & F. Beckman (Eds.), New Directions in Philosophy and Literature (pp. 102-121). Edinburgh University Press.

2018

Wetenschappelijke publicaties

Thiele, K. C., & Kaiser, B. M. (2018). Preface. In B. Kaiser, & K. Thiele (Eds.), Diffracted Worlds - Diffractive Readings: Onto-Epistemologies and the Critical Humanities (pp. xi-xvi). Routledge.
Thiele, K. C., & Kaiser, B. M. (2018). Introduction – Diffraction: Onto-Epistemology, Quantum Physics and the Critical Humanities: Republished Introduction from Parallax Special Issue "Diffracted Worlds - Diffractive Readings" (Parallax, 20.3 2014). In Diffracted Worlds - Diffractive Readings: Onto-Epistemologies and the Critical Humanities (pp. 1-3). Routledge.
Kaiser, B. M., & Thiele, K. C. (Eds.) (2018). Diffracted Worlds - Diffractive Readings: Onto-Epistemologies and the Critical Humanities. Routlegde.
Thiele, K. C., & Kaiser, B. M. (2018). Returning (to) the Question of the Human: An Introduction. philoSOPHIA, 8(1), 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1353/phi.2018.0000
Kaiser, B. M. (2018). So Many Tongues: Cixous and the Matter of Writing. Comparative Literature, 70(3), 278-294. https://doi.org/10.1215/00104124-6991711
Kaiser, B. M., & Thiele, K. C. (2018). If you do well, carry! The difference of the humane: An Interview with Bracha L. Ettinger by Birgit M. Kaiser and Kathrin Thiele. philoSOPHIA, 8(1), 101-125. https://doi.org/10.1353/phi.2018.0005
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/373569/project_muse_694764.pdf?sequence=1
Kaiser, B. M., & Thiele, K. C. (2018). Terrestrial. In R. Braidotti, & M. Hlavajova (Eds.), Posthuman Glossary Bloomsbury Academics.
Thiele, K. C., & Kaiser, B. M. (Eds.) (2018). Returning (to) the Question of the Human: Special Issue for philoSOPHIA: A Journal of Continental Feminism. philoSOPHIA, 8(1), 1-125.

2017

Wetenschappelijke publicaties

Thiele, K. C., & Kaiser, B. M. (2017). What is Species Memory? Or, Humanism, Memory and the Afterlives of “1492”’. Parallax, 23(4), 403-415. https://doi.org/10.1080/13534645.2017.1374510
Thiele, K. C., & Kaiser, B. M. (2017). Terra. In M. Bunz, B. M. Kaiser, & K. Thiele (Eds.), Symptoms of the Planetary Condition: A Critical Vocabulary (pp. 205-210). Meson Press.
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/357812/terra.pdf?sequence=1
Kaiser, B. M. (2017). The Laugh of the Medusa. In B. Papenburg (Ed.), Macmillan Interdisciplinary Handbooks: Gender, volume Laughter (pp. 149-163). Palgrave Macmillan.
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/380600/The_Laugh_of_the_Medusa.pdf?sequence=1
Thiele, K. C., Kaiser, B. M., & Bunz, M. (Eds.) (2017). Symptoms of the Planetary Condition: A Critical Vocabulary. Meson Press. http://meson.press/books/symptoms-of-the-planetary-condition/

2016

Wetenschappelijke publicaties

Kaiser, B. M. (2016). Vergelijkende literatuurwetenschap in de 21e eeuw: belangen, uitdagingen, nieuwe benaderingen. Vooys, 34(1/2), 8-20.
Terra Critica (2016). Introduction: Symptoms of the Planetary Condition. In M. Bunz, B. M. Kaiser, & K. Thiele (Eds.), Symptoms of the Planetary Condition (pp. 7-17). Meson Press.
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/345688/Planetary.pdf?sequence=1
Kaiser, B. M. (2016). Symptomatology. In Symptoms of the Planetary Condition (pp. 185-190). Meson Press.
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/345687/Symptomatology.pdf?sequence=1
Kaiser, B. M. (2016). Singularization. In Symptoms of the Planetary Condition (pp. 155-161). Meson Press.
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/345686/Singularization.pdf?sequence=1
Kaiser, B. M. (2016). Semi-Agency. In Symptoms of the Planetary Condition: A Critical Vocabulary (pp. 143-148). Meson Press. https://doi.org/10.14619/018
Kaiser, B., & Thiele, K. (2016). Other Headings: Ben Jelloun, Derrida, Sansal and the Critique of Europe. Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, 18(2), 270-285. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369801X.2015.1106965

2015

Wetenschappelijke publicaties

Kaiser, B. M. (2015). Algerian Disorders: On Deconstructive Postcolonialism in Cixous and Derrida. Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry, 2(2), 191-211. https://doi.org/10.1017/pli.2015.16
Kaiser, B. (2015). Singularity and Transnational Poetics. In B. Kaiser (Ed.), Singularity and Transnational Poetics (pp. 3-24). Routledge.
Kaiser, B. (2015). The spaces of transnational literature; or, where on earth are we with Emine Sevgi Özdamar’s Der Hof im Spiegel? In T. D'haen, & C. Dominguez (Eds.), Cosmopolitanism and the Postcolonial: Literature and the New Europe (pp. 177-198). Rodopi.
Kaiser, B. (2015). Nomadisch Schrijven: Gilles Deleuze en Édouard Glissant over Wortels en Fabuleren. In J. Goud (Ed.), Ontworteld: de schrijver als nomade (pp. 31-46). Klement.
Kaiser, B. (2015). Singularity and Transnational Poetics. Routledge. http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9781138775787/

Overige resultaten

Kaiser, B. M. (Author), & Thiele, K. C. (Author). (2015). What is Critique in the 21st Century? Discussing Terra Critica: A Conversation between Birgit Mara Kaiser, Kathrin Thiele and Mercedes Bunz. Web publication/site, .

2014

Wetenschappelijke publicaties

Thiele, K., & Kaiser, B. (2014). Diffracted Worlds - Diffractive Readings: Onto-Epistemologies and the Critical Humanities. Parallax, 72(3), 165-287. http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/tpar20/20/3#.VM4GRCfo-8w
Kaiser, B. (2014). Literatuur en leven - compositie en affect bij Deleuze. Wijsgerig Perspectief, 54(2), 23-29.
Kaiser, B. M. (2014). Worlding CompLit: Diffractive Reading with Barad, Glissant and Nancy. Parallax, 20(3), 274-287. https://doi.org/10.1080/13534645.2014.927634
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/307641/kaiser_worlding_2014.pdf?sequence=3
Kaiser, B. M. (2014). A New German, singularly Turkish. Reading Emine Sevgi Özdamar with Derrida's 'Monolingualism of the Other'. Textual Practice, 28(6), 969-987. https://doi.org/10.1080/0950236X.2014.925492
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/307580/kaiser_newgerman_2014.pdf?sequence=3
Kaiser, B. M., & Thiele, K. C. (2014). Diffraction: Onto-epistemology, Quantum Physics and the Critical Humanities. Parallax, 20(3), 165-167. https://doi.org/10.1080/13534645.2014.927621

Populariserende publicaties

Kaiser, B. M., & Thiele, K. C. (2014). Weaving Ourselves Otherwise – Co-emerging with Others in the Matrixial. In B. Choi, & M. Tanaka (Eds.), Grand Domestic Revolution: Handbook (pp. 93-94). Casco.

2013

Wetenschappelijke publicaties

Kaiser, B. M. (2013). (Un)Grounding the human. Affective Entanglement and Subjectivity in Hélène Cixous "Algerian Reveries. International Journal of Francophone Studies, 15(3&4), 477-496. https://doi.org/10.1386/ijfs.15.3-4.477_1
Kaiser, B. M. (2013). Zintuiglijk denken en het vraagstuk van de esthetica. In S. van Keulen (Ed.), Hoe kunst en filosofie werken (pp. 117-131). Boom.
Kaiser, B. M. (2013). Electrified Humans; or of inhuman affect in Heinrich von Kleist. In S. Blackmore (Ed.), Discovering the Human: Life Sciences and the Arts in Eighteenth and early Nineteenth Century (pp. 171-186). Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht.
Kaiser, B. M. (2013). Metamorphosis. In E. Horn, & M. Lowrie (Eds.), Denkfiguren/Figures of Thought (pp. 115-117). August Verlag.
Kaiser, B. M. (2013). Happy Days: Lebenswissen nach Cavell. Arcadia, 47. https://doi.org/10.1515/arcadia-2012-003

2012

Wetenschappelijke publicaties

Kaiser, B. M., & Burns, L. (2012). Navigating Differential Futures; (Un)making Colonial Pasts. In Burns, Lorna, & Kaiser, Birgit (Eds.), Postcolonial Literatures and Deleuze: Colonial Pasts, Differential Futures (pp. 1-17). Palgrave Macmillan.
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/380663/Navigating_Differential_Futures.pdf?sequence=1
Kaiser, B. M. (2012). Lektürelektionen. Haitianische Untertöne in Kleists 'Die Verlobung in St. Domingo' und Melvilles 'Benito Cereno’. In R. Blänkner (Ed.), Heinrich von Kleists Novelle 'Die Verlobung in St. Domingo'. Literatur und Politik im globalen Kontext um 1800 (pp. 73-91). Königshausen & Neumann.
Thiele, K., & Kaiser, B. M. (2012). Sich verlieren – und plötzlich eine Welt finden. Bracha L. Ettinger im Gespräch mit Birgit M. Kaiser and Kathrin Thiele. In S. Leeb (Ed.), Materialität der Diagramme. Kunst und Theorie (pp. 231-262). (polypen). b_books.
Kaiser, B. M., & Burns, L. (2012). Postcolonial Literatures and Deleuze: Colonial Pasts, Differential Futures. Palgrave Macmillan. http://www.palgrave.com/page/detail/postcolonial-literatures-and-deleuze-lorna-burns/?K=9780230348257
Kaiser, B. M. (2012). Poésie en étendue. Deleuze, Glissant, and a post-postcolonial aesthetics of the earth. In Braidotti, Rosi, & Pisters, Patricia (Eds.), Revisiting Normativity with Deleuze (pp. 131-144). Continuum.
Kaiser, B. M. (2012). The Singularity of Postcolonial Literature. Preindividual (hi)stories in Mohammed Dib’s “Northern Trilogy". In Postcolonial Literatures and Deleuze: Colonial Pasts, Differential Futures (pp. 123-144). Palgrave Macmillan.

2011

Wetenschappelijke publicaties

Kaiser, B. M. (Author). (2011). On aesthetics, aisthetics and sensation – reading Baumgarten with Leibniz with Deleuze’. Web publication/site
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/205637/Esthetica_-_On_aesthetics_aisthetics_and_sensation__reading_Baumgarten_with_Leibniz_with_Deleuze_-_2011-03-29%255B1%255D.pdf?sequence=1
Kaiser, B. M. (2011). Theory today; or, how are we to read this? Frame: Tijdschrift voor Literatuurwetenschap, 24(1), 8-17.

Populariserende publicaties

Kaiser, B. M. (2011). Baarmoederlijke verbondenheid uit Tel-Aviv. Lover: Feminisme, Cultuur, Wetenschap, 38(voorjaar), 48-49.
Kaiser, B. M. (2011). Vechtend Denken. Lover: Feminisme, Cultuur, Wetenschap, 38(najaar), 48-49.
Kaiser, B. M. (2011). Meedenken voor een feminine toekomst. Lover: Feminisme, Cultuur, Wetenschap, 38(zomer), 48-49.

2010

Wetenschappelijke publicaties

Kaiser, B. M. (2010). Literatur und Biopolitik. Rationalisierungen des Lebens in der Romantik. In Maria Muhle / Kathrin Thiele (Ed.), Biopolitische Konstellationen (pp. 119-142). August Verlag.
Kaiser, B. M. (2010). Figures of Simplicity. Sensation and Thinking in Kleist and Melville. (Intersections: Philosophy and Critical Theory ed.) Suny Press. http://www.sunypress.edu/p-5031-figures-of-simplicity.aspx

Overige resultaten

Kaiser, B. M. (2010, Nov 12). Response to Bracha L. Ettinger.
Kaiser, B. M. (2010, Sept 15). Response to Paul Gilroy.
Kaiser, B. M. (2010, Oct 24). Response to Claire Colebrook.

2009

Wetenschappelijke publicaties

Kaiser, B. M. (2009). The Reception of Ossian in Europe. Arcadia, 44, 452-456.
Kaiser, B. M. (2009). Two floors of thinking: Deleuze's Aesthetics of Folds. In S. van Tuinen, & N. McDonnell (Eds.), Deleuze and the fold: a critical reader (pp. 203-224). Palgrave Macmillan.

2008

Overige resultaten

Kaiser, B. M. (2008). In Defense of Life? Poetic Resistance in Romanticism. Paper presented at lecture at symposium 'Biopolitical Constellations', Bauhaus-University Weimar, German.

2007

Wetenschappelijke publicaties

Kaiser, B. M. (2007). Falte. In S. Diekmann, & T. Khurana (Eds.), Latenz. 40 Annäherungen an einen Begriff (pp. 67-72). Kadmos.

2001

Wetenschappelijke publicaties

Kaiser, B. M. (2001). Exclusivist Rhetorics – the constitution of political identities in present-day Algeria. In G. Schlee (Ed.), Imagined Differences. Hatred and the construction of social identities (pp. 183-214). (Market, Culture and Society). LITVerlag.

1999

Wetenschappelijke publicaties

Kaiser, B. M. (1999). Algerische Identitätspolitiken: Islamistische Diskurse zwischen Authentizität und (Post)Moderne. In J. Angermüller / M. Nonhoff (Ed.), PostModerne Diskurse zwischen Sprache und Macht (pp. 69-79). (Argument Sonderband). Argument-Verlag.