Maria Kager studied Comparative Literature at the University of Amsterdam and took her Ph.D. at Rutgers University, with a joint doctorate from the University of Antwerp. Her principal research interests are in modernist and postmodernist literature, which she studies from a comparative perspective.

She has published widely on modern literature in various international peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes and is currently completing a monograph on bilingualism and cognition in modernist fiction. Her most recent article “Bilingual Obscenities: James Joyce, Ulysses, and the Linguistics of Taboo Words” will appear in Studies in the Novel in 2016.