Irma B. Jaffes books include "Joseph Stella: Baroque Art and the Jesuit Contribution; The Italian Presence in American Art; Shining Eyes, Cruel Fortune: The Lives and Loves of Italian Renaissance Women Poets;" and" Giuseppe Betussi and Eleanora Falletti, Polygraph and Poet at the Dawn of Popular Literature." the recipient of many awards and grants, she founded the department of Art and Music at Fordham university, where she is Professor Emerita of Art History.