[1] While working towards her degrees, Schutte served as an instructor of philosophy and English at Miami University.
After receiving her doctorate, she accepted a position as Assistant Professor of Humanities at the University of Florida, transitioning to Philosophy one year later.
[1] In addition to her university appointments, Schutte has served in a number of other professional roles, including chairing the American Philosophical Association's Committee on Hispanics/Latinos,[2] and in a large number of editorial roles, including being associate editor and board member of Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy between 1990 and 2006 (and continuing as an advisory board member since,) serving on the advisory board of the Cuadernos de Filosofia at the University of Buenos Aires since 2007, being a member of the editorial board of Teaching Philosophy from 2006 to 2011, and being a member of the editorial board of Mora: Revista del Area Interdisciplinaria de Estudios de la Mujer since 1995, and being a member of Journal of the Argentine Society of Women in Philosophy's between 1989 and 2000.
[2] In this book, she agrees with Nietzsche's efforts to deconstruct dualism and rejects nihilism as part of a dualist philosophy.
She was also one of the first philosophers to publish on Latin America in the United States, shortly behind Jorge Gracia.