She specialises in Hellenistic poetry, and her interests include Greek and Latin poetry, ancient gender studies, literary theory, and the interaction between text and image.
[1] Her contribution to Hellenistic epigram and pastoral poetry has been considered particularly influential.
Gutzwiller is awarded numerous grants, including a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), a Fellowship at All Souls College, Oxford, a Fellowship to the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, an American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Fellowship, and a Loeb Classical Foundation Grant.
In 2001, she received the Charles J. Goodwin Award of Merit from the American Philological Association for Poetic Garlands, has twice won the Gildersleeve Award for the best article in the American Journal of Philology.
[1][3] She is now working towards an edition and commentary on the epigrams by Meleager of Gadara, to be published by Oxford University Press.