Her current book project, Gertrude Stein and the Canons of Rhetoric, challenges literary studies to reconsider the place of rhetoric, questions the discipline of philosophy as the definitive purview of theory, and expands important work being done by feminist scholars in rhetoric and philosophy. Kirsch recently joined the editorial collective of the newly relocated Trivia: Voices of Feminism and also serves on the board of Arizona’s Florence Immigrant and Refugee Rights Project.