Prof. Kirkham's areas of interest are Italian literature of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, interdisciplinary relations between literary and visual traditions, gender studies, and cinema. She is the co-author of Diana's Hunt, Caccia di Diana: Boccaccio's First Fiction (1991); the author of The Sign of Reason in Boccaccio's Fiction (1993); and Fabulous Vernacular: Boccaccio's Filocolo and the Art of Medieval Fiction, which won the Modern Language Association of America's Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Publication Award for a Manuscript in Italian Literary Studies for the year 2000. She has articles on The Divine Comedy, Boccaccio, Italian cinema, and the poet Laura Battiferra degli Ammannati (1523-1589), a Petrarchist in the family of early modern women writers. Her edition with translations and commentary of Battiferra's poetry is due to appear in the University of Chicago series "The Other Voice." She is the winner of a Guggenheim Fellowship (2005-2006) for her book in progress, Creative Partners: The Marriage of Laura Battiferra and Bartolomeo Ammannati.

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